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IPC Designers Council
viewpoint: Rick Hartley
rick Hartley has been in in-
volved in PCB design and de-
sign education for decades,
so it's no surprise that he
started working with the IPC
Designers Council early on.
now retired from his day job
at l-3, rick still teaches PCB design and shows no
sign of slowing down. I asked him to discuss his
work with the Designers Council, and what the
group means to the design community.
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DownStream Takes on Data
Documentation Management
Most PCB designers love their
jobs. But designers will also
tell you that as much as they
enjoy laying out the board,
they dislike the final data doc-
umentation step, which of-
ten involves various formats,
including handwritten notes. enter DownStream
Technologies, a company founded 14 years ago
to address the challenges related to post-process-
ing the design. Senior Product Marketing Manag-
er Mark gallant recently discussed the company's
efforts to take the pain out of data documentation,
even as data becomes more complex.
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Most-Read PCB Design
News Stories of 2015
each December, we like
to look back at the year
in PCB design news. Janu-
ary seems like yesterday,
doesn't it? Since then,
we've seen plenty of innovative new tools and a
variety of partnerships, and we've said goodbye
to a couple of longtime friends. As we approach
2016, enjoy this list of the 10 most-read news
items on PCBDesign007 in 2015.
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EMA: Helping Technologists
Manage Disparate Data
Today's eDA tools are better
than ever, but managing de-
sign data, from schematics
through gerbers, can be an
unwieldly task. I recently in-
terviewed Manny Marcano,
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