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  • Tolerances and Dimensions for PCB Fabrication

    Tolerances and Dimensions for PCB Fabrication

    The tolerances decide what actually ships.  READ MORE...

  • How to Avoid 'Ghost Manufacturing'

    How to Avoid 'Ghost Manufacturing'

    Hidden subcontracting can expose providers to latent quality risks.  READ MORE...

  • Flex Circuits for Use in Catheters

    Flex Circuits for Use in Catheters

    Long, narrow flex circuits push manufacturing limits.  READ MORE...

  • A Guide to Flexible and Rigid-flex PCBs.

    A Guide to Flexible and Rigid-flex PCBs.

    What is a flex PCB?  READ MORE...

  • UHDI Solder Mask Considerations

    UHDI Solder Mask Considerations

    Can solder mask tolerance follow UHDI's lead?  READ MORE...

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  • Tolerances and Dimensions for PCB Fabrication

    The tolerances decide what actually ships.

    https://pcdandf.com/pcdesign/index.php/current-issue/241-designer-s-notebook/19202-tolerances-and-dimensions-for-pcb-fabrication

  • How to Avoid 'Ghost Manufacturing'

    Hidden subcontracting can expose providers to latent quality risks.

    https://pcdandf.com/pcdesign/index.php/current-issue/270-board-buying/19199-the-phantom-menace-of-pcb-purchasing-how-to-avoid-ghost-manufacturing

  • Flex Circuits for Use in Catheters

    Long, narrow flex circuits push manufacturing limits.

    https://pcdandf.com/pcdesign/index.php/current-issue/243-flexperts/19205-flex-circuits-for-use-in-catheters

  • A Guide to Flexible and Rigid-flex PCBs.

    What is a flex PCB?

    https://pcdandf.com/pcdesign/index.php/editorial/menu-features/19208-a-guide-to-flexible-and-rigid-flex-printed-circuit-boards

  • UHDI Solder Mask Considerations

    Can solder mask tolerance follow UHDI's lead?

    https://pcdandf.com/pcdesign/index.php/editorial/menu-features/19210-uhdi-solder-mask-considerations

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1912cover

December 2019

  • AI and machine learning effects on electronics manufacturing
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  • Printed circuit design layout and placement
  • Nickel corrosion in ENIG and ENEPIG 
  • Transparent flexibile circuits
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1911cover

November 2019

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1910cover

October 2019

  • Emerging challenges in modeling, simulation and design tools
  • DDR5 sockets
  • Ventec interview
  • Mechatronics
  • Lab-on-a-chip
  • Circuit Connect profile
  • When to source dual-ply glass
  • The latest happenings among the IPC Designers Council chapters
1909cover

September 2019

  • The annual NTI-100 list of the world's largest fabricators
  • PCB procurement strategies
  • Calculating trace length from time delay values
  • The impact of glass styles on precipitating or mitigating skew
  • Reliability implications of self-driving vehicles
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1908cover

August 2019

  • ECTC 2019 recap
  • The paperless factory
  • Signal integrity
  • Assembly data documentation
  • Extra-long flex circuits
  • Glass skew mitigation techniques
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1907cover

July 2019

  • Producing an ECO/updating design
  • Is the PCB Industry ready for 5G?
  • The true cost of tariffs
  • Prepping files for assembly
  • Glass-weave skew causes
  • Vendor managed inventory
  • Designing for buildup processes
  • Signal integrity design fundamentals
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1906cover

June 2019

  • Zuken Innovation World
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  • Board buyer certification
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  • Via-in-pad on SMT flex
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1905cover

May 2019

  • Material selection for high-speed PCB Design
  • Stackups
  • Minimizing impedance deviations
  • Artificial intelligence in ECAD
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1904cover

April 2019

  • CAD data transfer
  • Impedance control
  • Stack-up strategies
  • High-speed laminate selection
  • LED emitters
  • Switching the top and signal layers
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1903cover

March 2019

  • Annual PCD&F designers' salary survey
  • Designing for higher power in smaller form factors
  • IPC Apex Expo 2019 recap
  • Designing for in-circuit test (ICT)
  • Nepcon Japan 2019 recap
  • Electric-field orientation of measurement equipment
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1902cover

February 2019

  • Mitigating nickel corrosion in ENIG deposits
  • Has automotive supplanted military in high-reliability electronics?
  • Design setup and placement processes
  • Dk/Df measurement standards
  • Technology and quality audit processes
  • Comparing rigid-flex and rigid boards
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1901cover

January 2019

  • Using Maxwell’s equations for designing transmission lines
  • Advantages of being small in electronics manufacturing 
  • PCB schematics
  • Determining Df and Dk tradeoffs among various laminates
  • Bare board x-ray inspection
  • Ten steps for achieving good DfX
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