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4 DESIGN007 MAGAZINE I NOVEMBER 2023 FEATURE INTERVIEW Simplifying Your Design: An Overview with Kris Moyer FEATURE COLUMNS Simplest Stackups Specified by Martyn Gaudion Take It From Scotty: Simple Really Is Better by Tim Haag The Simplest Way Is the Best Way by Joe Fjelstad FEATURE ARTICLES Your Thermal Designs Are Inefficient by Doug Brooks and Johannes Adam 8 Simple Rules for Streamlining Your Design by Chris Young Avoid the 'Ferrari Problem' and Simplify Your PCB Design by Zach Peterson 10 16 46 66 22 30 36 NOVEMBER 2023 • FEATURE CONTENTS In this month's issue, our expert contributors explain how to design PCBs without making them complex and over-constrained—whatever the level of technology. We also discuss the effect your decisions and tradeoffs have on design complexity, as well as the need to thoroughly under- stand how electrical and manufacturing limitations can lead to over-constraining your board. Simplfication 10 16 36 66