FEBRUARY 2019 I DESIGN007 MAGAZINE 67
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The Digital Layout: Chapter
Highlights and Certification
Successes
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This month's column high-
lights the San Diego chapter,
which is also where IPC APEX
EXPO 2019 will be held at the
end of January. You will also
find updates on recent CID
and CID+ certification success
stories, a recap of the PCB Carolina event from
the Research Triangle Park (RTP) North Caro-
lina chapter, and upcoming events, so mark
your calendars for next year.
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Arlon EMD Accelerates Investments
in Operations
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Arlon EMD, a veteran-owned manufacturer of
high-performance polyimide and other specialty
resin materials based in Rancho Cucamonga,
California, has completed another phase of
facility improvements targeting enhanced clean
-
liness of laminate and prepreg. This investment
in operational improvements is the third in the
past 18 months and the fifth capital investment
over the past 36 months focused on material
cleanliness.
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RTW IPC APEX EXPO 2019:
Oren Manor Details New Camstar
Electronics Suite
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Nolan Johnson meets with
Oren Manor—director
of busi-
ness development for Mentor, a
Siemens Business—to discuss
the
introduction of their new
Camstar
Electronics Suite soft-
ware, an innovative manufacturing execution
system (MES) for electronics.
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TUM Hyperloop Team Learns PCB
Design on Way to Setting World
Speed Record
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At AltiumLive Munich, Andy
Shaughnessy
met with Tobias
Bobrzik, a Technical University
of Munich student and mem-
ber of the TUM Hyperloop
team. In 2018, the TUM Hyper-
loop team's prototype pod set the world speed
record of 290 miles per hour, which lead to their
meeting with Musk. Tobias designed some of
the PCBs used in that vehicle, so I asked him
to tell us more about this experience, and what
he hopes to do after graduation.
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10 Fundamental Rules of High-speed
PCB Design, Part 5
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The final part of the 10 fun-
damental rules of high-speed
PCB design focuses on board-
level simulation encompass-
ing signal integrity, crosstalk,
and electromagnetic compli-
ancy. Typically, a high-speed
digital design takes three iterations to develop a
working product. However, today, the product
life cycle is very short, and therefore, time to
market is of the essence. The cost per iteration
should not only include engineering time but
also consider the cost of delaying the products
market launch.
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Mentor Webinar: Correct Model
Assignments for SI (Full Flow)
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Mentor, a Siemens business held a webinar
on "Correct Model Assignments for SI (Full
Flow)" on February 21, 2019, 8:30 a.m. to 9:30
a.m. U.S. Pacific.
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Tobias Bobrzik
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