A PCB is the most critical component in any modern electronics assembly. Although a PCB accounts for typically 5-10% of the cost of an assembly, the cost of a PCB failure can be 5-10 times the cost of the end-product due to the cost of replacement components, production costs, field replacements, delayed delivery schedules, penalties, and reputational damage. This PCB MASTERCLASS shares decades of experience and knowledge by world-acclaimed experts to help PCB professionals make the right choices so as to get to market faster than the competition. With many hundreds of PCB manufacturers around the world, it is vitally important to understand critical aspects such as factors impacting on PCB reliability, material choices, manufacturer limits and capabilities, process flow, design for manufacturability, and emerging technologies. With constant pressure to get to market faster and at a reasonable price, can you afford not to get it right the first time?

A PCB is the most critical component in any modern electronics assembly. Although a PCB accounts for typically 5-10% of the cost of an assembly, the cost of a PCB failure can be 5-10 times the cost of the end-product due to the cost of replacement components, production costs, field replacements, delayed delivery schedules, penalties, and reputational damage. This PCB MASTERCLASS shares decades of experience and knowledge by world-acclaimed experts to help PCB professionals make the right choices so as to get to market faster than the competition. With many hundreds of PCB manufacturers around the world, it is vitally important to understand critical aspects such as factors impacting on PCB reliability, material choices, manufacturer limits and capabilities, process flow, design for manufacturability, and emerging technologies. With constant pressure to get to market faster and at a reasonable price, can you afford not to get it right the first time?

A PCB is the most critical component in any modern electronics assembly. Although a PCB accounts for typically 5-10% of the cost of an assembly, the cost of a PCB failure can be 5-10 times the cost of the end-product due to the cost of replacement components, production costs, field replacements, delayed delivery schedules, penalties, and reputational damage. This PCB MASTERCLASS shares decades of experience and knowledge by world-acclaimed experts to help PCB professionals make the right choices so as to get to market faster than the competition. With many hundreds of PCB manufacturers around the world, it is vitally important to understand critical aspects such as factors impacting on PCB reliability, material choices, manufacturer limits and capabilities, process flow, design for manufacturability, and emerging technologies. With constant pressure to get to market faster and at a reasonable price, can you afford not to get it right the first time?

A PCB is typically 7-10% of the cost of an assembly, but is the most critical part of the assembly. In this section we examine some of the most critical aspects that will ensure that your PCB is manufacturable.

"All that glitters is not gold."  We will cover the various types of surface finishes to enhance good inter-metallic bonding and the shelf-life of the PCB assembly. 

HDI printed circuit boards (High Density Interconnect) offer the finest trace structures with the smallest holes. HDI technologyÿenables a highly compact, reliable printed circuit board design. Understand the complexities associated with HDI and how to design an HDI PCB that is manufacturable.

Too often, a PCB cannot be manufactured because the stackup is not practical or achievable. A good stackup can also enable designers to optimize their designs for signal integrity, crosstalk, and EMI.

How to set up the layerstack, define board shapes, and set fold in Rigid-Flex designs

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5G presents new design and manufacturing challenges for high-frequency PCBs, requiring tight pattern designs, attention to geometries and a great regard for material choices. 5G PCB design is not for the feint-hearted.

This one hour session will explore how to determine how many signal and power layers are needed in a design and how to arrange them in order to achieve the best signal integrity at the lowest cost.

This one hour training session will explain what is moving on a transmission line that must be managed using signal integrity rules. Understanding what is moving on a transmission line is vital to understanding crosstalk, reflections and EMI..

This one hour training session will describe the kinds of transmission lines that are used in PCBs, how to calculate their impedances, how to incorporate them in PCB stackups and the laminate systems currently in use around the world and what kinds of information about laminates is needed to arrive at a manufacturable PCB stackups.

This one hour training session will describe the kinds of transmission lines that are used in PCBs, how to calculate their impedances, how to incorporate them in PCB.

This one hour training session will explore the topic of series terminated transmission lines, where they are used, how to determine terminating resistor size and where to locate the terminating resistor.

PCIExpress is becoming the new backbone of PCs and other products that must process very large amounts of data. This one hour session will describe how PCIExpress works, what design rules and disciplines are needed as the speeds of the technology continue to increase.

PCIExpress is becoming the new backbone of PCs and other products that must process very large amounts of data. This one hour session will describe how PCIExpress works, what design rules and disciplines are needed as the speeds of the technology continue to increase.

This one hour training session will explore the topic of parallel terminated transmission lines, where they go, what kinds of nets need them, advantages and disadvantages of using them and how to determine terminator size.

This one hour training session will explore the topic of parallel terminated transmission lines, where they go, what kinds of nets need them, advantages and disadvantages of using them and how to determine terminator size.

This one hour training session is intended to provide the PCB designer with all of the information required to design the pad stack for vias, connector pins and component pins to guarantee good manufacturability of a PCB while maximizing trace routing space.

This one hour training session will examine what differential signaling is, why we use it, what its advantages are and how to make a set of design rules that  guarantees stable operating differential pairs with a minimum of added design cost or  fabrication cost.

This one hour training session will examine what differential signaling is, why we use it, what its advantages are and how to make a set of design rules that  guarantees stable operating differential pairs with a minimum of added design cost or  fabrication cost.

This one hour training session will examine what crosstalk is, where it comes from, how to calculate how much crosstalk will exist for a given trace geometry and how to keep crosstalk within design limits.

Productivity equals profits.  In this webinar you will learn how templates in Altium can fast-track your design, reporting and output generation.

Register for EDA Technologies Webinar:

Date: 10 February 2022
Time: 11:00 – 11:40

Looking forward to seeing you there!

Why is SURFACE FINISH important?

Available Surface Finish options

General Recommendations for Handling & Storage

Recommendations for baking a PCB

Demands on PCB Geometries

Characteristics of HDI PCBs

Microvia Technology

Costs Constraints

Benefits of HDI

HDI Structures

Filled and Capped Microvias

Choice of Material

Design for Manufacture

Estimated Cost Matrix

Struggling to find available components? Is your PCB BOM costing too much?  In this webinar you will learn how Altium Designer closes the gaps in supply chain management, all in an instant.

Date: 9 June 2022
Time: 11:00 – 11:40

One design can have many applications.  In this webinar you will learn how to create and manage variants so that you can issue clear instructions for variant assembly and manufacturing.

Register for EDA Technologies Webinar:

Date: 14 April 2022
Time: 11:00 – 11:40

Many products include multiple, interconnected printed circuit boards. Bringing these boards together inside the enclosure and ensuring they correctly connect to each other is a challenging phase of the product development process. A mistake at this  stage of the product development cycle is costly, both for the cost of redesign and the delay to market. 

Altium Designer brings system-level design to the electronic product development process.

Register for EDA Technologies webinar: Multi-Board Design in Altium

Date: 4th November 2021

Time: 11:00am - 11:40am

Looking forward to seeing you there! 

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This 3-day hands-on course explores more in-depth topics to advance the student’s knowledge of Altium Designer. The material covered will enable students to use more complex Altium Designer capabilities such as pin swapping and length tuning. Lectures, demonstrations and numerous hands-on exercises are used to reinforce these advanced design features in Altium Designer.