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PCB Designers' Skills, Visibility and Value Improved at IPC Designers Council Summit
January 29, 2003 |Estimated reading time: 2 minutes
Northbrook, Ill. -- IPC -- Association Connecting Electronics Industries and its Designers Council have released the program schedules for the Interactive Hands-On Workshops and Off-Site Applied Training segments of its 2003 IPC Designers Council Summit.
The conference, which is IPC's foremost event specifically targeted for printed circuit board (PCB) designers, will take place March 22 through 27, in conjunction with IPC Printed Circuits Expo 2003, at the Long Beach Convention Center in Long Beach, Calif.
The Summit's Off-Site Applied Training will take place on Tuesday, March 25, from noon to 5 p.m., at TTM Technologies Inc. and Pro-Tech Inc. Through multiple lectures, a panel discussion and two facility tours, the Applied Training workshops will focus on Design for Manufacture, and cover the following:
- Design Parameters -- the use of coupons, general requirements for good design practices, documentation, dimension practices, panelization, fiducials, annular ring, testing conditions, fabrication issues and methodologies that impact the cost of multi-layer products.
- Future Design Philosophies -- the complexity of future design and package design levels, the Jisso concept, feature pitch use of multiple pitches, ball diameter to land description, grid systems and routing strategies and cost adders.
During the IPC Designers Council Summit's Interactive Hands-On Workshops, CAD experts from Mentor Graphics will conduct three workshops.In the first session, "On the Autobahn of High-Speed Design," on Wednesday, March 26, from 2 to 5 p.m., attendees will be introduced to the fundamentals of high-speed design through the use of Mentor Graphic's Expedition Series of PCB design products. The challenges facing today's high-speed designers and the ways in which they are placing and routing their designs will also be addressed.
The role of microvias in 21st century design will be analyzed in the second workshop, "Chutes, Ladders and Microvias," on Thursday, March 27, from 2 to 5 p.m. Participants will learn how to effectively incorporate microvias into PCB designs.
In the third workshop, "Value, Technology and More, from PADS, of Course," on Thursday, March 27, from 2 to 5 p.m., Mentor Graphic's CAD experts will demonstrate PADS PowerPCB 5.0, the company's desktop solution for advanced rules design complex PCBs. Attendees will be taught many of the design tool's features, including an interactive route editor and capabilities for high-speed designs.
The IPC Designers Council is a professional society of designers forming an international network. Its mission is to promote printed board and printed board assembly design as a profession and to encourage, facilitate and promote the exchange of information and integration of new design concepts through communications, seminars, workshops and professional certification through a network of local chapters.
IPC is a Northbrook, Ill.-based trade association dedicated to the competitive excellence and financial success of its more than 2,400 member companies, which represent all facets of the electronic interconnection industry, including design, printed circuit board manufacturing and electronics assembly. For more information, visit www.ipc.org.