62 The PCB Design Magazine • March 2017
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Kelly Dack and Mike Creeden:
Are We in a PCB Design
Renaissance?
During IPC APEX
EXPO, Technical Edi-
tor Kelly Dack and San
Diego PCB founder
Mike Creeden discuss
some of the trends
they're seeing in the
PCB design commu-
nity, including a slight increase in young people
becoming designers and more EEs doing design
work.
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Gary Ferrari Earns Dieter
Bergman IPC Fellowship Award
In recognition of his on-
going leadership in devel-
oping and promoting IPC
standards on a global ba-
sis, IPC has bestowed the
Dieter Bergman IPC Fel-
lowship Award upon Gary
Ferrari of FTG Circuits. For
more than four decades,
Ferrari has donated countless hours to IPC and the
PCB design community.
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Exciting New Technology:
Thermal Risk Management
Two years ago, I entered into
a collaboration with Dr. Jo-
hannes Adam, from Leimen
Germany. Johannes has writ-
ten a software simulation tool
called Thermal Risk Manage-
ment (TRM). We used it to
look at the thermal character-
istics of PCB traces under a variety of conditions,
and it is hard for me to contain my excitement and
enthusiasm for what it does and what we learned
about traces using it.
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Altium Vault 3.0 Harnesses
PCB Design Data to Unlock
Engineering Innovation
Altium has launched an
all-new version of its PCB
component and design
data management solu-
tion with Altium Vault
3.0. As a complement to
their leading PCB design software Altium Designer
17, Altium Vault furthers the brand's commitment
to fueling creativity by giving the engineer more
control over their design data.
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