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Designer's Notebook: PCB Design for Bare Board Testing

March 22, 2023 | Vern Solberg, Consulting

There are several testing methods used for certifying that the circuit board meets its defined quality level and intended functional criteria. Multilayer circuit boards have become increasingly complex: finer conductor line definition, blind and buried microvia interface, and smaller, finer-pitch SMT land pattern geometries. Visual assessment using automated optical inspection (AOI) is adopted to check all circuit layers prior to lamination and as a final examination of the end product.

The Pulse: Instilling an Informal Information Culture

March 21, 2023 | Martyn Gaudion, Polar Instruments

Informal information exists within most companies and distilling this knowledge into tools is not an easy task—maybe even an impossible one. But what’s most important in maximizing this informal information is to have a good communication network, those “go to” people for a particular purpose. It is important that the company promotes a culture of openness and sharing, or knowledge has a risk of being ring-fenced and locked away.





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Target Condition: The Tale of Five CAD Monkeys

March 15, 2023 | Kelly Dack, EPTAC Corporation

Many electronics engineering groups have a hierarchical structure, with senior-, mid-, and junior-level engineering personnel possessing various depths of subject matter expertise. The head of an engineering group is usually one who...

The Shaughnessy Report: Tribal Knowledge—Friend or Foe?

March 9, 2023 | Andy Shaughnessy, I-Connect007

The ongoing retirement of many of our colleagues has cast a spotlight on this month’s topic: tribal knowledge. As designers and engineers with 30 or 40 years of experience start pricing condos in Boca Raton, the entire industry...

Electrical characterization of high frequency circuit materials can be done in a variety of ways. Some characterization methods use a fixture to test the raw dielectric material, while other methods use circuits. The Dk and Df results...

Tribal Knowledge: Friend or Foe? Featuring:

  • With Tribal Knowledge, Trust but Verify, a conversation with Tamara Jovanovic
  • Tribal Knowledge: Not the Villain You Thought, by Tim Haag
  • Material Matters and Tribal Knowledge, by Alun Morgan
  • Instilling an Informal Information Culture, by Martyn Gaudion
  • If Not You, Then Who? by John Watson
  • Tribal Knowledge: A Personal Perspective, by Joe Fjelstad
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