DECEMBER 2018 I DESIGN007 MAGAZINE 91
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The Bare (Board) Truth: Getting
on the Same Page—A Data Story
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Thickness callouts for sin-
gle-sided or double-sided
orders are even more criti-
cal. As a fabricator, we can
control the thickness of the
multilayer by using differ-
ent combinations of pre-
pregs/cores.
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EMA Launches Ultra Librarian
Reference Design Cloud
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EMA Design Auto-
mation announced
the release of its Ultra
Librarian Reference
Design Cloud, giv-
ing engineers easy,
web-based access to reference design schemat-
ics enabling faster design starts.
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Julie Ellis: Communication and
Fabrication Knowledge Critical
for Designers
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Field Application Engineer
Julie Ellis of TTM sees it all:
good designs, bad designs,
and everything in between.
Her classes on proper DFM
techniques are always a big
draw. She taught at the inau-
gural AltiumLive in 2017 and was back at this
year's event. I caught up with Julie and asked
her to discuss some of the things she covered
in class. As she points out, many issues could
be eliminated if designers communicated with
their fabricators and had a better understand-
ing of how PCBs are manufactured.
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New Mentor Xpedition Platform
Delivers 'Shift-Left' Multi-Dimensional
Verification
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Mentor, a Siemens business has announced
the new Xpedition printed circuit board (PCB)
design platform focused on multi-dimensional
verification.
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Life Beyond 10 Gbps:
Localize or Fail!
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Ideally, all intercon-
nects should look like
uniform transmission
lines (or wave-guiding
structures) with the
specified characteris-
tic impedance. In re-
ality, an interconnect
link is typically com-
posed of transmission lines of different types
(microstrip, strip, coplanar, coaxial, etc.) and
transitions between them such as vias, con-
nectors, breakouts and so on.
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DownStream Technologies Unveils
Updates of CAM350, DFMStream
and BluePrint-PCB
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DownStream Technologies has announced
global availability of Release 2018 for CAM350,
BluePrint-PCB, and DFMStream.
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Yuriy Shlepnev
Julie Ellis
Mark Thompson
