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Learning Hub Webinars How To Use Modern Rigid-Flex Substrates

How To Use Modern Rigid-Flex Substrates

We live in a three dimensional world, so let's take advantage of it! Flex and rigid-flex boards allow us to break away from the x-y plane and design upwards and around unique objects, and enclosures. When designing these types of boards there’s a lot to consider from materials, routing techniques, polygon patterns, and more.

With the market for wearables is forecasted to grow to be $150 billion by 2026. Most of these devices are simply impossible to design without rigid-flex technology. This means that PCB designers need to become experts in designing, testing, and manufacturing in a wearable and “foldable” world.

Join us this month where we’ll go over:

  • Creating flexible regions on your board
  • Basic thoughts regarding your Material Choice
  • Routing Tips
  • Polygon placement
  • Contour Routing
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We live in a three dimensional world, so let's take advantage of it! Flex and rigid-flex boards allow us to break away from the x-y plane and design upwards and around unique objects, and enclosures. When designing these types of boards there’s a lot to consider from materials, routing techniques, polygon patterns, and more.

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Join us this month where we’ll go over:

  • Creating flexible regions on your board
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Alexsander joined Altium as a Technical Marketing Engineer and brings years of engineering expertise to the team. His passion for electronics design combined with his practical business experience provides a unique perspective to the marketing team at Altium. Alexsander graduated from one of the top 20 universities in the world at UCSD where he earned a Bachelor’s degree in Electrical Engineering.

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Manuel Valero is an Electronics Engineer with experience ranging from his own repair and IT businesses to working with multinational companies in the semiconductor and passive components branches; he has covered diverse roles like Repair Engineer, Product Engineer, Testing Engineer, Design Engineer, Product Marketing Engineer, FDE, etc.

He has quite varied interests, not just the electronics area; this go from bicycle riding, swimming, wandering, astrophysics, physics, biology and a long etcetera.
Having worked and lived in several countries, he finds himself comfortable in multicultural environments and enjoys working with customers.
 

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Aiden은 대학에서 전자공학을 전공하였으며 PCB 설계 분야의 R&D로 7년 이상의 경험을 가지고 있습니다. 그는 전자 제품을 위한 SMPS, 인버터, 컨버터 설계 경험이 있습니다. 제품 프로젝트를 이끌었으며 설계, 관리, 인증 제품 테스트와 같은 모든 작업을 경험했습니다. 그리고 한국 리셀러(Hancom Intelligence) 팀에서 4년 이상 Altium Designer 사용자들을 위한 기술 지원 및 교육을 제공했습니다. Concord Pro와 Altium 365를 사용하여 PLM 요구 사항에 대한 컨설팅 및 지원을 했습니다. 또한 Altium Designer에 대한 수십 차례의 교육 및 웨비나를 경험했습니다.
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Daniel joined Altium in 2019 as an Application engineer and moved into the Technical Sales role in the same year. Daniel provides technical assistance for sales, third party distributors, and customers in the Asia Pacific region (APAC) and is based in the Altium Tokyo, Japan office. Daniel has experience with PCB,  FPGA, and ASIC design in telecommunication and Information industries. 
 

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