74 The PCB Design Magazine • May 2017
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'Flexdude' Tom Woznicki
Celebrates Company's
25th Anniversary
Twenty-five years ago, Tom
"Flexdude" Woznicki got laid
off. So, he launched his own
flex circuit design bureau and
never looked back. Since then,
he's designed flex circuitry for
everything under the sun, in-
cluding the Mars Rover; the
flex circuits he designed are visible in many of the
Rover photos. Tom and I discussed the benefits of
flex circuits, the expansion of the flex market, and
his company's first quarter-century in operation.
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Mentor FloTHERM XT Release
Simulates Complex Geometries
Quickly, Accurately
Mentor has launched the newest release of the
FloTHERM XT electronics cooling software product
with advanced thermal management capabilities.
Based on the electronics cooling DNA of Mentor's
FloTHERM technology and the FloEFD CAD-cen-
tric philosophy, the award-winning FloTHERM XT
product is the industry's first integrated mechani-
cal design automation and electronic design auto-
mation electronics cooling solution.
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Beyond Design:
Microstrip Coplanar Waveguides
The classic coplanar wave-
guide (CPW) is formed by a
microstrip conductor strip
separated from a pair of
ground planes pours, all on
the same layer, affixed to a di-
electric medium. In the ideal
case, the thickness of the di-
electric is infinite. But in practice, it is thick enough
so that electromagnetic fields die out before they
get out of the substrate.
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New Ultra Librarian Website
Provides ECAD/MCAD Models,
Part Pricing
EMA Design Automa-
tion has created a web-
site for Ultra Librarian
giving electronics de-
signers online access
to pre-authored and
verified parts with pric-
ing and technical infor-
mation to help them choose the best electronics
components for their designs and the ability to
download symbols, footprints, and 3D models.
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