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36 DESIGN007 MAGAZINE I JULY 2024 is the chair of the CAMM2 committee for JEDEC, as well as the inventor of the specifi- cation. He has been our engineer, and we've been his designers—his hands for creating this future technology. I've been teaching at Austin Community College for nine years. Terrie was one of my students, and I hired her six years ago. She was a great student, and with her background in num- bers and programming, I asked her to work for me. She's the main one doing the constraints, design- ing, and everything, but her numbers background helps us be successful as a team doing cutting-edge, futuristic stuff. I have also "adopted" some of my other PCB design students; they work with us for as long as pos- sible, maybe six months to a year. I'll help them find jobs with bigger corporations where they can learn from those designers. All I provided was more knowledge. Adopting your students is a great idea. So, Terrie came on board, and she has been the "fixer" for your company, so to speak. McCauley: Yes. I've been trying to show Ter- rie what I know aer being in PCB design for 44 years. I've done all different types of boards in all different industries. In one presentation I attended here at PCB East, the instructor talked about going from light table to CAD, and I was there. I did that, and it wasn't easy. But CAD got adopted, in my mind, because it was still colorful and visual, and it also sped up my process. With CAD, it was easy to make changes. at whole experience gives me a positive feeling about AI right now because I know AI will not take over our jobs. But you have to make it easier, more productive, and visual for a designer to use. Walk us through how your work with CAMM2 came about and your class on designing with CAMM2. McCauley: Two years ago, we were at PCB West, and at that point, we had been working on DDR5 for two years. I thought everybody was doing DDR5, but I found out they weren't. Charlene McCauley