52 The PCB Design Magazine • August 2015
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Highlights
Avoid Overbuilding your RF Printed
Circuit Board
Today, many companies are overbuilding and
"overmaterializing" their RF printed circuit boards.
In this interview, James Hofer of Accurate Circuit
Engineering (ACE) shares some strategies to avoid
doing both, which will help lower the total cost of
your PCB and improve the overall product quality.
Hofer also discusses some of the challenges in the
laminate supply chain.
A Look at the High-Reliability
Interconnect Market
I-Connect007 Publisher Barry Matties recently met
with Mark Cormier of Miraco Inc. to discuss the
latest trends and drivers in the high-reliability seg
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ment, and their customers' increasing demand for
quality.
Changing the Face of Displays…
One Button at a Time
Incom produces fused fiber optics with a new poly-
mer process that replaces traditional glass fiber op-
tics. This allows the creation of new applications,
and for OEMs it changes the way they can build
human control interfaces. Emilijo explains how
Fairlight is incorporating this technology into their
famous products for the recording and broadcast
industries, along with other applications such as el-
evator control panels.
Exception PCB Solutions Design Service
Boosts CID+ Qualifications
Exception PCB Solutions growth and development
in 2015 continues with a focus on service including
additional investment in Exception's Integrated PCB
Design Service which is proving to be highly popu
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lar. This has resulted in increased growth not only
from existing customers, but also from many new
customers across a range of sectors.
NASA, DRS Technologies Collaborate
to Create Mid-Infrared Detector
NASA scientist Xiaoli Sun and his industry partner
have created the world's first photon-counting
detector sensitive to the mid-infrared wavelength
bands—a spectral sweet spot for a number of re
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mote-sensing applications, including the detection
of greenhouse gases on Earth, Mars and other plan-
etary bodies, as well as ice and frost on comets,
asteroids and the moon.
FTG Circuits' Sales Up $1.8M or 15% in Q2
"The second quarter of 2015 saw record sales for
FTG with all sites participating in the growth,"
stated Brad Bourne, president and CEO. He added,
"These record sales are enabling us to report strong
earnings while still investing in our future."
Multilayer Technology Passes
AS9100 Surveillance Audit
Multilayer Technology (MLT), located in Irving,
Texas has passed its AS9100C surveillance audits.
The audit consisted of 2.5 days (20 hours) of in
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tense auditing by our registrar. All departments
were completely audited to ensure compliance to
the AS9100C Certification.
All Flex Flexible Circuits & Heaters
Achieves AS/ISO Re-certification
All Flex, manufacturer of flexible printed circuits
and heaters announces re-certification to AS9100C
and ISO 9001:2008. AS9100 is an international
aerospace standard for quality assurance require
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ments of aerospace companies.
Satellite Project to Clean Up
Space Debris Orbiting Earth
The Clean Space One Project has passed a mile-
stone. The space cleanup satellite will deploy a
conical net to capture the small SwissCube satellite
before destroying it in the atmosphere. It's one of
the solutions being tested for eliminating danger-
ous debris orbiting the Earth.
Alone in the Darkness: Mariner 4
to Mars, 50 Years Later
July 14 marks 50 years of visual reconnaissance of
the solar system by NASA's Jet Propulsion Laborato-
ry (JPL), beginning with Mariner 4's flyby of Mars in
1965. Among JPL's first planetary efforts, Mariners 3
and 4 (known collectively as "Mariner Mars") were
planned and executed by a group of pioneering
scientists at Caltech in partnership with JPL.
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