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How to Select the Best Surface Finish for your PCB How to Select the Best Surface Finish for your PCB Dr, Kunal generously gives us all a crash course on surface finishes and understanding different types of materials that could affect signal integrity, reliability and electronic shelf life. Read Article
What is in the PCB Bill? What is in the PCB Bill? In this episode, Representative Moore, one of the co-sponsors of H.R.7677, the Supporting American Printed Circuit Boards Act of 2022, will give us brief but insightful details about the bill. Read Article
The Promising and Challenging Future of 3D Printed Electronics The Promising and Challenging Future of 3D Printed Electronics The business development manager of J.A.M.E.S., Alexandre Schafer talks about the organization’s vision to push the Additively Manufactured Electronic technology to become more accessible to the industry. Read Article
Mitigating Risk Factors for PCB Manufacturing Lead Times Mitigating Risk Factors for PCB Manufacturing Lead Times How to deal with nuances in PCB design and manufacturing? In today’s episode, Dave Young the owner of Young Circuits Design and founder of BlueStamp Engineering, and Zach talk about mitigating risk factors early in the stage of electronic design. Read Article
Roughness of Copper and its Effect on Signal Integrity Roughness of Copper and its Effect on Signal Integrity Bert Simonovich, a very well-known expert in the signal integrity community, is our guest in today’s podcast episode. He developed the "Cannonball-Huray" model a transmission line loss modeling, which has been adopted in several popular EDA tools. Read Article
Design Predictable PCBs through Simberian's SIMBEOR® Electromagnetic Signal Integrity Software Design Predictable PCBs through SIMBEOR® Electromagnetic Analysis In this episode, the founder of Simberian will demonstrate Simbeor’s simulation capabilities and briefly educate us on rise times, signal integrity, and solving EMI. Watch how an electromagnetic analyzer can be a lifesaver to a PCB designer like you. Read Article
10-Ounce Copper PCBs and Design Library Migration 10-Ounce Copper PCBs and Design Library Migration Today’s guest is Mario Strano, the senior PCB designer at Nikola and also president of ECAD Central. We will discuss interesting topics such as designing a 10-ounce PCB, setting up clearance and creepage rules, library migration, and a 57-ounce copper board; yes, you heard that right! Read Article
PCB Design Education Through Content Creation PCB Design Education Through Content Creation Phil Salmony, a successful youtube creator with 64.6K subscribers, shares with us how he was introduced to PCB design, his early career, and what got him to start his own Youtube channel. Watch this podcast episode and check out the additional resources below. Read Article
IPC CEO John Mitchell on the Supporting American Printed Circuit Boards Act IPC CEO John Mitchell on the Supporting American Printed Circuit Boards Act Supply chain security and having access to trusted manufacturers in the US would be an ideal outcome of the Printed Circuit Board Act. John Mitchell talks about the role of the IPC in influencing the creation of laws relating to the electronics industry. Watch this podcast episode now or listen on the go. Read Article
The Electronics Behind a Haunting Attraction The Electronics Behind a Haunting Attraction In this episode, a returning guest Gabriel Goldstein shares the electronics behind the thrills in escape rooms. He also generously gives some valuable advice on finding your niche and starting your own business in the electronics industry. Watch and learn from this episode. Read Article
Occam Process: Assembly without Solder Occam Process: Assembly without Solder Have you heard of assembly without solder? In this episode, Joseph (Joe) Fjelstad founder and president of Verdant Electronics talks about the Occam process – a solderless assembly for electronics. Read Article
Resilient, Robust and Trusted Supply Chain The Benefits of Diversifying PCB Industry Supply Chain To develop a resilient ecosystem, understanding the root cause of the PCB industry supply chain shortages is a must. Listen to Travis Kelly and Zach’s insightful conversation about PCB supply chain shortages. Read Article
Accessible Trustworthy Data for PCB Designers Easily Find Electronic Components for Your Next PCB Design Dan Schoenfelder joins us today to discuss the most extreme problems the PCB design industry faces: supply shortages, particularly the semi-conductor products and microcontrollers. Read Article
Making Codes Tangible Through Electronic Projects Making Codes Tangible Through Electronic Projects In this episode, Bill Kolicoski, the creator of Taste the Code Youtube channel, inspires young electronic designers to start learning through creating. Read Article
Landing a Full-Time Engineering Career at NASA Landing a Full-Time Engineering Career at NASA Andrew Hartnett dreamt of working with NASA at a very young age. He will share with us exactly how he landed his Computer Engineer position in this very sought-after agency. Watch this episode, or listen on the go! Read Article
Hands-on Learning for PCB Design Students Hands-on Learning for PCB Design Students with Sid Deliwala Our guest Sid Deliwala is the Director of Lab Programs in the Electrical and Systems Engineering Department at the University of Pennsylvania. Sid will share how he makes Electrical and Computer Engineering (ECE) fun and meaningful for our future innovators. Read Article
Data Security, 5G and Onshore PCB Manufacturing with Dr. Rob Spalding Data Security, 5G and Onshore PCB Manufacturing with Dr. Rob Spalding In this episode, we are very pleased to have Dr. Rob Spalding. He is a retired Brigade General at the US Air Force and now the CEO of SEMPRE (Secure EMP-Resistant Edge), a tech company based in Washinton DC that provides military-grade 5G and high-performance edge computing infrastructure for telecom operators, first responders, government, and enterprise customers. Today, Rob and I will talk about all things security! Rob will tackle the Read Article