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  • How the PCB Stackup Helps Control EMI

    How the PCB Stackup Helps Control EMI

    Power and signal placed on outer layers minimize radiated emissions.
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  • Century Circuits

    Century Circuits

    Which PCB technologies are best suited to survive 100 years?
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  • Learning from the Past

    Learning from the Past

    What history can tell us about our position in high-tech.
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  • Thermal Vias are Ineffective. Here’s Why.

    Thermal Vias are Ineffective. Here’s Why.

    Adding thermal vias can take up valuable board space with little benefit.
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  • Connecting the Industry, from Boards to Assemblies

    Connecting the Industry, from Boards to Assemblies

    HDP is embarking on new rounds of evaluations of laminates and lead-free solders.
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Caveat Lector

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Mike Buetow

Cyclical industries are always predictable in that they are up until they are down. Kidding aside, correctly anticipating the swings is the goal of any buyer or seller. And every so often a particular event moves the needle drastically, to the point that even the veterans are caught off guard.

Read more: Circuit Board Cycles

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Mike Buetow

One famous journalist recently described success as “when people see you as what you wish you were.” The man who wrote that never met Ray Boissoneau (as in “boss-in-oh”). More than 35 years ago in an old mill building in Manchester, NH, Ray (it’s impossible to refer to him by his last name) launched Electropac with a Dunmore drill (those were the pre-Excellon days) and a countertop kitchen skillet for reflow similar to the one my mom used to make pancakes.

Read more: The ‘Boss’

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Mike Buetow

Apex a Sign of Trade Show … What, Exactly?

IPC Apex Expo came to a close on March 27, completing its annual three-day run at the Mandalay Bay Convention Center in Las Vegas. The trade show, the electronics assembly industry’s largest in the US, appeared to most observers to have attracted slightly more attendees than last year’s event in San Diego, and exhibitors on the whole seemed relatively upbeat about the year ahead.
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Mike Buetow

For those who count on the electronics industry for big feats, it’s been a remarkable couple of years. The Mars Science Laboratory (which includes the better-known Curiosity rover) flew some 350 million miles before settling down on the Red Planet, where it continues to compile and beam new information back to we land-lovers on Earth. It’s a stunning engineering feat. And given the many millions of dollars spent to get there, thank goodness it succeeded.

Read more: The Human Touch

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