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34 DESIGN007 MAGAZINE I JULY 2024 Feature Interview by Andy Shaughnessy I-CONNECT007 At PCB East, I met Charlene McCauley and Terrie Duffy of the McCauley Design Group. e duo was leading a class on designing with the new CAMM2 DDR5, a JEDEC specifica- tion and standard created by Dell, which is due to replace the aging SO-DIMM in laptops. e CAMM2 (Compression Attach Memory Mod- ule) is solderless and frees up lots of real estate that SO-DIMM famously requires. Now that CAMM2 is a standard, other com- panies are ready to take advantage of this tech- nology, and Charlene and Terrie are in demand as speakers. I asked them to take me through their work with CAMM2 and what it means to motherboard designers. Andy Shaughnessy: You had a full house for your class, and the attendees are still talking about it. Tell me about the groundbreaking stuff you're covering here at the conference. McCauley Design Group Spreads the CAMM2 Gospel Charlene McCauley: e attendees were won- derful. is class was about designing with DDR5 and adopting the CAMM2 compression connector. Now, CAMM2 has become a world standard for DDR5 memory. We are part of the development team that has done CAMM2, and now we're out presenting and sharing the knowledge that we've gained over the past four years. Will you give me some background on the company? McCauley: I started the McCauley Design Group in 2015 in Austin, Texas. I had been laid off from Dell, so I called Tom Schnell, now a senior engineer at Dell and who we're work- ing with and asked if he needed any help. Tom is one of those inventors who has all the new future ideas. I ended up starting McCauley Design Group, and we became his team. Tom