80 The PCB Design Magazine • April 2016
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'Printed Circuits Handbook'
Features New Chapter
by Andy Shaughnessy
The seventh edition of the Print-
ed Circuits Handbook is now
available, with a new chapter
by Andy Shaughnessy, manag-
ing editor of The PCB Design
Magazine and PCBDesign007.
edited by Clyde F. Coombs and
Happy Holden, this marks the
most comprehensive edition of
the book to date.
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IPC APEX EXPO: Gary Carter
on First Board Manufactured
With IPC-2581B
Gary Carter, senior man-
ager of CAD engineering
for Fujitsu network Com-
munications, discusses the
first board fabricated and
assembled using IPC-2581B.
This 20-layer board features
21,000 component pins and
15,000 holes, with controlled impedance on all
layers. He also gave a presentation on IPC-2581B
during the Design Forum.
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Mentor Graphics Releases
Newest HyperLynx
Mentor Graphics has
announced its new-
est Hyperlynx release,
which integrates signal
and power integrity analysis, 3D electromagnetic
solving, and fast rule checking into a single unified
environment. This product for the first time offers
designers a complete set of analysis technology
sufficient for designing any type of high-speed
digital PCB.
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IPC APEX EXPO: Glenn Oliver
on His IPC 'Best Paper' on
High-Frequency Materials
Glenn Oliver of DuPont
discusses his award-win-
ning paper, "Round Robin
of High-Frequency Test
Methods by IPC-D24C
Task Group." Co-authors
include Jonathan Weldon
of DuPont, John Andresakis of Park electrochemi-
cal, Chudy nwachukwu of Isola, John Coonrod of
Rogers Corporation, David l. Wynants of Taconic
Advanced Dielectric Division, and Don DeGroot of
Connected Community networks.
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