JUNE 2018 I DESIGN007 MAGAZINE 65
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Field Trip: CID Class Sees How Flex
is Made at Streamline Circuits
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While I was teaching my
CID class for EPTAC in Santa
Clara, I learned that we were
only a block away from
Streamline Circuits. Stream-
line does a lot of military
and aerospace work, as well
as communications and industrial electronics.
The company manufactures quite a bit of mul-
tilayer flex and rigid-flex circuits, in addition to
rigid boards. This would make a great field trip
for my CID class!
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Ucamco Updates Gerber File
Specification
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Ucamco has released version
2018.05 of the Gerber Format
Specification. The document
is available on the Gerber
download page on Ucamco's
website.
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Experts Discussion:
What Does 5G Mean to Materials
and EDA Tools?
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Whether we're ready for
it or not, 5G technology
is coming. For this issue,
we decided to speak with
John Hendricks, mar-
ket segment manager for
wireless infrastructure at
Rogers Corporation, and
Ben Jordan, director of product and persona
marketing for Altium, about the challenges
related to 5G and what this means for PCB
designers and fabricators.
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Design and Manufacturing
Perspectives from DISH
Technology's Les Beller
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I recently interviewed Les
Beller, a long-time PCB designer
who is now a manufacturing
engineer for DISH Technol-
ogy. We discussed his com-
pany's business shift towards
5G and streaming,
and the stresses that puts
on a design team. He also explains the great-
est challenges that he's facing with HDI and
higher frequencies, and the added importance
for designers to understand the manufacturing
process and DFM tools.
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Global EDA Market Projected
to Reach CAGR of 12.2%
by 2018-2023
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The EDA tools market is projected to register
a CAGR of 12.2% during the forecast period
2018-2023. The demand for compact electronic
devices has been increasing across several sec
-
tors, such as automotive and industrial manu-
facturing, and has compelled the IC manufactur-
ers to increase investment in R&D, to reduce the
size while impr
oving the performance of ICs.
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EDADOC: A Driving Force in China's
Automotive Electronics Design
E
EDADOC is one of the biggest providers of PCB
design and manufacturing services in China,
with a long history in automotive electron-
ics design and manufacturing. I recently con-
ducted an email interview with EDADOC R&D
Technical Research Manager William Zhou and
Brand Planning Specialist Wen Ling about the
challenges related to designing and fabricating
automotive PCBs.
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