106 DESIGN007 MAGAZINE I JANUARY 2018
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Top 10 Most-Read PCB Design
Articles of 2017
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On New Year's Day, we took a look back at the
most-read PCB design articles of 2017. Here are
the top 10 design articles of the last year for
your enjoyment. Is it just a coincidence that
two of these articles are related to HDI design
techniques?
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That's Hot: Ventec's Goodwin
on Thermal Management
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IPC's fall committee
meetings were held
in conjunction with
SMTA International,
as has been the case
for several years now.
Patty Goldman sat
in on some subcom-
mittee meetings, including one on laminates,
where she met up with Ventec COO Mark
Goodwin for a discussion on thermal manage-
ment from a laminate supplier's perspective.
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Cadence Allegro Pulse Extends
Team Collaboration
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Cadence Design Systems has
announced Cadence Allegro
Pulse, the industry's first
solution to enable extended
team collaboration by pro-
viding near-real-time insights into the com-
plexities of the electronic design process. Alle-
gro Pulse connects management, engineering,
procurement and other business stakeholders
to up-to-date work-in-progress design data in a
single, unified web-based platform.
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The Impact of HDI on
PCB Power Distribution
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HDI is often used to meet the requirements of
today's complex designs. Smaller component
pitches, larger ASICs and FPGAs with more
I/O, and higher frequencies with shrinking
rise-times all require smaller PCB features,
driving the need for HDI. Beyond some of the
more obvious electrical effects of the microvias
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