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AUGUST 2023 I DESIGN007 MAGAZINE 35 Part 2 of this article will appear in the Sep- tember issue of Design007 Magazine. DESIGN007 Brad Griffin is product management group director at Cadence Design Systems and the author of The System Designer's Guide to… System Analysis. then perform an analysis with the Clarity 3D Solver (Figure 6). is is something the SI expert would tra- ditionally do, but with IDA, PCB designers don't have to depend on the availability of the SI expert—they can do it themselves with- out being intimidated. e easy-to-use flow involves simply setting up the structure and opening Clarity 3D Solver from within the via wizard environment to run the simulation, assess the structure's validity, and make adjust- ments early in the process. By Chris Jorgensen DIRECTOR, IPC TECHNOLOGY TRANSFER The e-textiles industry recognizes IPC as a leader in standards development for the greater electron- ics industry, and in 2017 asked IPC for assistance to develop global standards for materials, design, and manufacture of e-textiles. Volunteers quickly adapted to IPC's processes by integrating them- selves into the fabric (pun intended) of IPC's global standardization efforts. There are now eight task groups under the IPC E-Textiles Committee that are developing standards and many new IPC Test Methods for conductive yarns; woven, knitted, braided, and embroidered e-textiles; printed electronics e-textiles; and even wearable e-textiles systems. The IPC E-Textiles Committee was among the first to embrace IPC's A-Teams approach, where dedicated groups of vol- unteers from an originating task group take on the lion's share of the work for their task group. The first A-Team came together in 2018 and, from a list of topics identi- fied by their subcommittee—IPC-8921, Requirements for Woven and Knitted Electronic Textiles (E-Textiles) Integrated with Conductive Fibers, Conductive Yarns and/or Wire—became IPC's first published e-textiles standard. That A-Team's efforts established IPC as a true leader for standards develop- ment in the e-textiles industry. As the results of their work became more well known, it attracted more volunteers to form new E-Textiles Committee task groups. These volunteers found IPC to be a fast path: A proposed standard topic could lead to a task group approval, an A-Team formation, and then to starting their projects. The IPC E-Textiles Committee now represents IPC's global footprint with eight A-Teams, all actively engaged in different standards projects. A-Team members hail from Belgium, Canada, France, Ger- many, Malaysia, Pakistan, Sri Lanka, Taiwan, the United Kingdom, and the United States. Each team has embraced IPC's challenge to come up with creative names for their teams. Let's meet the IPC E-Textiles Committee A-Teams and see what they're up to. Click here to get details about each of the A-Teams, including their very clever names. IPC E-Textiles Committee A-Teams Are Shaping Some Much-needed Standards