86 The PCB Design Magazine • June 2016
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Douglas G. Brooks Co-Authors
"Trace and Via Currents and
Temperatures"
Douglas G. Brooks, PhD and Dr.
Johannes Adam, CID have teamed
up to write PCB Trace and Via
Currents and Temperatures: The
Complete Analysis. Brooks has
been looking at trace current and
temperature relationships since the mid-1990s.
Now, he and Adam, of the consulting group Adam
Research, have assembled decades of knowledge
into these pages.
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Designers Notebook:
Flexible and Rigid-Flex Circuit
Design Principles, Part 6
The designer is generally under
pressure to release the documen-
tation and get the flexible circuit
into production. There is, howev-
er, a great deal at risk. Setting up
for medium-to-high volume man-
ufacturing requires significant
physical and monetary resources.
To avoid potential heat from management, the
designer must insist on prototyping the product
and a thorough design review prior to release.
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Webinar: Leveraging SerDes
Design Flows for IBIS-AMI
Model Development
In this webinar at-
tendees will learn
about a new work-
flow that has been
developed jointly
between Math-
Works and SiSoft, which enables semiconductor
companies to reuse their SerDes designs directly
for IBIS-AMI model creation, simulation, and vali-
dation.
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Design Automation Tools,
Today and in the Future
Kelly Dack has been designing
PCBs for over three decades, at
OEMs of all kinds. Now a PCB
designer with a Washington
state contract manufacturer and
a certified trainer with EPTAC,
Kelly enjoys waxing philosophic
about PCB design and design automation in gen-
eral. I asked Kelly to answer a few questions about
the direction EDA tools are headed, and whether
he'd like to see more control, or more automation
in his PCB design tools.
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