FEBRUARY 2024 I DESIGN007 MAGAZINE 77
I recently met with Laura Martin,
director of applications engineer-
ing for Summit Interconnect. Laura
has been at Summit for about a
year, moving into the role from a
similar position at Insulectro. She
has now become Summit's go-to design for
manufacturing (DFM) expert, and she's working
to move DFM further up in the design cycle,
eliminating unpleasant surprises at CAM.
I bet that title caught your attention. Has Korf
finally lost his mind? The central theme of my
I-Connect007 columns, as well as presenta-
tions at PCB technical meetings, has focused
on improving data package quality sent from
designers to manufacturers. The goal is to
transfer the design information to manufacturing
and build the PCBs as-is. No semi-automated
DFM, stackup generation, CAM editing, or data
quality analysis should be needed.
Altium has launched
the BOM Portal within
the Altium 365 plat-
form. The BOM Portal
is engineered to
dramatically enhance
collaboration between
engineering and procurement teams,
offering a unified approach to managing
bills of materials (BOMs) in electronics
design.
The designer needs to have a working
understanding of two key manufactur-
ing operations: basic circuit board
fabrication procedures and assembly
process practices. For printed circuit
board manufacturing, the number of
steps required to produce the printed
circuit board correlates to the circuit
board's complexity.
As technology advances,
the demand for reliable
PCBs with ever-increasing
circuit density surges and
highlights the pivotal role
of fabrication in shaping
the electronics landscape. In this intricate dance
between innovation and execution, a symbiotic
relationship emerges between designers and fab-
ricators. This forms the core of success.
The Advanced PCB Design Concepts
course, 6:30 to 8:30 p.m. EDT March 18
to May 15, 2024, with virtual classes held
on Mondays and Wednesdays, will start
with the design of HDI and advanced
packaging concepts. This will be fol-
lowed by embedded component design
and the students will see how concepts
from HDI are used in the implementation
of embedded components.
For the latest news and information, visit PCBDesign007.com
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