OCTOBER 2020 I DESIGN007 MAGAZINE 99
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Tim's Takeaways: Thermal
Management for PCB Designers—
Staying Out of the Fire
E
If there's one thing in life that
really feels the pressure of being
in the hot seat, it's the PCBs that
we design. But PCB designers
often feel a lot of pressure while
doing their work, which puts
them squarely in the hot seat. Tim Haag shares
four techniques in thermal management for
PCB designers.
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Dana on Data: A Team Method
to Reduce Fabricator Engineering
Questions
E
Hundreds of PCB designs are
released to be quoted or fab-
ricated every day around the
world, and most will have engi-
neering questions or technical
queries generated once the data
package has been received and analyzed. Dana
Korf outlines seven fundamental steps based
on Lean/Six Sigma concepts to reduce data
transfer issues.
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The Bare (Board) Truth:
5 Questions About Improving
Thermal Management
E
Mark Thompson from Monsoon
Solutions answers five ques-
tions about thermal manage-
ment at the design and PCB lev-
els, including how much heat a
via dissipates, how to identify
potential thermal issues, and more.
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Mentor and Z-zero Collaborate
on New Stackup Tool
E
I recently spoke with Max Clark,
business unit manager with
Mentor, a Siemens Business,
and Z-zero founder Bill Hargin
about the newly formed part-
nership that resulted in a new
stackup tool that Mentor is now selling world-
wide. Fun fact: Hargin used to work for Mentor
as part of the HyperLynx team, which now has
an interface with Z-planner Enterprise.
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This Month in Design007 Magazine:
Thermal Fundamentals With
Mike Jouppi
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The I-Connect007 team recently
interviewed Mike Jouppi, one of
the champions of thermal man-
agement in PCBs. Mike spent
decades working on updating
the old IPC current-carrying
data, which dated back to the 1950s, and he
is the primary architect behind IPC-2152—
the standard for determining current-carrying
capacity in printed board design.
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Quiet Power: Be Aware of Default
Values in Circuit Simulators
E
Simulators are very convenient
for getting quick answers with-
out lengthy, expensive, and
time-consuming measurements.
Istvan Novak explains how,
sometimes, you can be surprised
if you forget about the numerical limits and the
limitations imposed by internal default values.
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Tim Haag
Max Clark
Mike Jouppi
Istvan Novak
Dana Korf
Mark Thompson
