Team Cadence, Cadence

Enabling shorter, more predictable PCB design cycles with better integration of component design and system-level simulation.

Latest Column: All Systems Go: Auto-Detecting Over- and Under-Derated Parts

Barry Olney, In-Circuit Design Pty. Ltd.

Barry focuses on advanced PCB design, signal integrity, and EMC design techniques.

Latest Column: Beyond Design: Select Dielectric Material With Precision

Kim O'Neil, Prototron Circuits

Kim discusses the daily challenges of running an American PCB fabricaton facility.

Latest Column: Circuit Chronicles: It’s All About the Team

Matt Stevenson, Sunstone Circuits

Matt Stevenson covers solutions to help your PCB projects succeed.

Latest Column: Connect the Dots: What is an Annular Ring?

John Talbot, Tramonto Circuits

John focuses on flex and rigid-flex PCB and PCBA technologies, as well as various global business, technical, and market aspects.

Latest Column: Consider This: Designing Via-in-pad for Higher-Density Flexible Circuits

Dan Beaulieu, DB Management

Dan Beaulieu reviews new and classic books on succeeding in business.

Latest Column: Dan’s Biz Bookshelf: ‘Talent Tectonics’

Dana Korf, Korf Consultancy LLC

Dana's columns focus on IPC-2581 as well as PCB front-end tooling, data quality, DFM processes, etc.

Latest Column: Dana on Data: Can ChatGPT Solve My PCB Data Transfer Quality Problem?

Patrick Crawford, IPC

Patrick Crawford provides updates on IPC Design activities.

Latest Column: Design Circuit: Green Ambition for the Electronics Manufacturing Industry

Vern Solberg, Consulting

This column will focus on technical issues related to PCB and Flex circuit design, etc.

Latest Column: Designer's Notebook: PCB Design for Bare Board Testing

Team Siemens, Siemens Digital Industries Software

Siemens explores the digital thread from concept to manufacturing.

Latest Column: Digital Transformation: Leveraging Digital Automation to Accelerate PCB Design

John Watson, Altium

John Watson covers a variety of tips that designers need to know.

Latest Column: Elementary, Mr. Watson: Slash Sheets a ‘Smorgasbord’ of Materials

Dan Feinberg, FeinLine Associates, Inc.

End-user technology and special features on end-user high technology products.

Latest Column: Fein-Lines: An Eye-Popping Eureka Park and ShowStoppers at CES 2023

Joe Fjelstad, Verdant Electronics

As author of the Flexible Circuit Technology books, Joe covers everything to do with flexible interconnections in this column.

Latest Column: Flexible Thinking: Catalyzing Change and Design Evolution

IPC Education Foundation, IPC

IPC Education Foundation updates on programs and activities.

Latest Column: Foundations of the Future: IPCEF's Scholarships, Awards and Student Opportunities

Team NCAB, NCAB Group

A variety of field application engineers from NCAB Group's technical team explore fresh PCB concepts.

Latest Column: Fresh PCB Concepts: PCBs for Harsh and Extreme Environments, Part 2

Dan Beaulieu, DB Management

This weekly column is focused on helping electronics companies enhance their professional and technical image through sales and marketing, and, of course, common sense.

Latest Column: It’s Only Common Sense: The Problem With Reps and Principals

John Coonrod, Rogers Corporation

John Coonrod offers PCB designers advice on modern laminates, with a focus on high-speed substrates.

Latest Column: Lightning Speed Laminates: Optimizing Thermal Management for Wireless Communication Systems

Clive "Max" Maxfield, Clive Maxfield High-Tech Consulting

Max focuses on EDA tools, PCB design techniques, and innovative technologies of the past, present, and future.

Latest Column: Maxed Out: Component Search Engine is a Total Game Changer

John Mitchell, IPC

John will cover issues affecting the entire global electronics industry supply chain.

Latest Column: One World, One Industry: Advanced Packaging Year in Review

Tara Dunn, Averatek

When it comes to additive circuits, Tara really knows what she is talking about!

Latest Column: PCB Talk: Is DWM Just Another Buzzword?

Duane Benson, Screaming Circuits

Duane offers tips and tricks for PCB assembly issues.

Latest Column: Powerful Prototypes: Small Computer Modules

Istvan Novak, Samtec

Focusing on signal and power integrity issues related to PCB design and design engineering.

Latest Column: Quiet Power: 3D Effects in Power Distribution Networks

Team Electrolube, Electrolube

Team Electrolube illustrates the best PCB design practices for optimizing the conformal coating process.

Latest Column: Sensible Design: Automotive Conformal Coating Applications

Anaya Vardya, American Standard Circuits

This column strives to make all facets of printed circuit board technology clear and easy to understand.

Latest Column: Standard of Excellence: Hey World, Our Products Matter

Kelly Dack, EPTAC Corporation

Kelly’s column pursues the need for stakeholder advocacy in the printed circuit industry head-on, deliberating topics essential for helping one another achieve 100% acceptability in PCB engineering, design, procurement, sales, manufacturing, test and inspection.

Latest Column: Target Condition: The Tale of Five CAD Monkeys

Mark Thompson, Out of the Box Manufacturing

Mark Thompson discusses PCB design from a fabricator's viewpoint, with a focus on DFM issues.

Latest Column: The Bare (Board) Truth: My Top Six Design Challenges

Mehul Davé, Linkage Technologies

Mehul's column explores issues surrounding globalization and the electronics supply chain.

Latest Column: The Big Picture: A New Globalization

Mike Buetow, Printed Circuit Engineering Association

This column is dedicated to providing news about PCB design classes and events, as well as helping engineers, designers, and anyone related to printed circuit design from around the globe to network and share information.

Latest Column: The Digital Layout: A Different Kind of Additive Manufacturing

Chris Mitchell, IPC

In this column, IPC VP of Global Government Affairs Chris Mitchell and his team provide news and views on government policies that affect the electronics industry and its supply chain.

Latest Column: The Government Circuit: PCBs, Advanced Packaging Key to CHIPS Act Success

Team Elmatica, Elmatica

The PCB Norsemen from Elmatica share their knowledge, experience, technical advice, and thoughts about the fascinating world of PCBs.

Latest Column: The PCB Norsemen: A Simple Question Can Save You Time and Money

Martyn Gaudion, Polar Instruments

In his column, Martyn discusses signal integrity and impedance design test.

Latest Column: The Pulse: Instilling an Informal Information Culture

Andy Shaughnessy, I-Connect007

Andy Shaughnessy discusses topics that are important to the community of PCB designers and design engineers.

Latest Column: The Shaughnessy Report: A New Materials Paradigm

Tim Haag, First Page Sage

Tim Haag discusses PCB design topics from his viewpoint as an EDA technologist and longtime board designer.

Latest Column: Tim’s Takeaways: Tribal Knowledge—Not the Villain You Thought

Imran Valiani, RUSH PCB Inc.

Imran Valiani addresses ways to get products to market as quickly as possible.

Latest Column: Time to Market: Ten Ways to Bring Your Product to Market