MARCH 2020 I DESIGN007 MAGAZINE 79
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Insulectro: Educating Designers
About High-Speed Materials
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In this video interview from
IPC APEX EXPO 2020, Ken
Parent, Insulectro's VP of sales
and product manager, speaks
with Kelly Dack about the
company's efforts to educate
engineers and designers about materials and
their options and availability. Insulectro has
held a series of PCB design classes and plans
to keep educating designers about these high-
speed materials.
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Altium Accelerates IoT and AI
Hardware Development through
Geppetto and Seeed Collaboration
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Altium announces that
Seeed, the IoT hardware en-
abler, has embedded the Ge-
ppetto electronic design ap-
plication into its Seeed plat-
form. Seeed users can now
go straight from creating a design to manufac-
turing a working PCB in just one session.
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Elementary, Mr. Watson: Eating the
Elephants of Your PCB Design
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After being in the PCB indus-
try for 20 years, John Watson,
CID, has had the opportunity
to work with some of the best
PCB designers and engineers
in the field. He shares some of
the traits PCB designers need, and how you
can implement them into your design process
to become a great designer.
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IPC Designers Council Has a
New Name: IPC Design
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Yes, you read that right. The
IPC Designers Council is now
known as IPC Design. Many
of you have heard secondhand
stories about what this change
will entail, so Andy Shaugh-
nessy asked IPC to shed some light on this sub-
ject. He recently spoke with IPC's Teresa Rowe
and Patrick Crawford about what's changing,
what's not, and IPC's plans to provide im-
proved infrastructure for PCB design content
and curriculum.
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Joe Clark Says DownStream Is
Ready for More Growth in 2020
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Joe Clark, co-founder of Down-
Stream Technologies, gives
Kelly Dack an overview of the
company and their innovative
product line, which serves to
smooth the bumps that can oc-
cur between source design output and manu-
facturing line input. As Joe explains, 2019 was
a great year for the company, and he expects
that trend to hold through 2020.
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Global Technology: The Importance
of Laminate CTE in PCB Design
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All material expands and
contracts with temperature
change, which is called the co-
efficient of thermal expansion
(CTE). Eran Navick explains
where and how the laminate
expands effects the operation of the printed
circuit in different ways.
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Eran Navick
Ken Parent
Teresa Rowe
Joe Clark
John Watson
