Jan 27, 2003
"IPC�s Designers Council Summit will provide PCB designers an opportunity to step outside of their boxes and interface directly with design and process engineers", said Dieter Bergman, IPC�s director of technology transfer. "They�ll now be able to network with the essential persons that can provide the input necessary for designers to turn it into output for manufacturing."
"Through the applied training courses, designers will be able to better understand the design philosophy for manufacturability by directly observing the processes, smelling the chemistries and touching the end product. The interactive hands-on workshops will teach designers several ways to influence design elements, without sacrificing performance to reduce costs. And both segments will permit designers to ask the difficult questions of the process engineers that produce their products."
The Summit�s Off-Site Applied Training will take place on Tuesday, March 25, from 12:00 to 5:00 p.m., at TTM Technologies, Inc., and Pro-Tech, Inc. Through multiple lectures, a panel discussion and two facility tours, the Applied Training workshops will focus on Design for Manufacture, and cover the following:
Design Parameters - the use of coupons, general requirements for good design practices, documentation, dimension practices, panelization, fiducials, annular ring, testing conditions, fabrication issues and methodologies that impact the cost of multi-layer products.
Future Design Philosophies - the complexity of future design and package design levels, the Jisso concept, feature pitch use of multiple pitches, ball diameter to land description, grid systems and routing strategies and cost adders.
During the IPC Designers Council Summit�s Interactive Hands-On Workshops, CAD experts from Mentor Graphics will conduct three workshops.
In the first session, "On the Autobahn of High-Speed Design," on Wednesday, March 26, from 2:00 to 5:00 p.m., attendees will be introduced to the fundamentals of high-speed design through the utilization of Mentor Graphic�s Expedition Series of PCB design products. The challenges facing today's high-speed designers and the ways in which they are placing and routing their designs will also be addressed.
The role of microvias in 21st century design will be analyzed in the second workshop, "Chutes, Ladders and Microvias," on Thursday, March 27, from 2:00 to 5:00 p.m. Participants will learn how to effectively incorporate microvias into PCB designs.
In the third workshop, "Value, Technology and More, from PADS, of Course," on Thursday, March 27, from 2:00 to 5:00 p.m., Mentor Graphic�s CAD experts will demonstrate PADS PowerPCB 5.0, the company�s desktop solution for advanced rules design complex PCBs. Attendees will be taught many of the design tool�s features, including an interactive route editor and capabilities for high-speed designs.
For more information about the 2003 IPC Designers Council Summit, visit http://dc.ipc.org/summit or contact Stephannie Caliendo, IPC Designers Council program manager, at calist@ipc.org or 847-790-5302.
About the IPC Designers Council
The IPC Designers Council is a professional society of designers forming an international network. Its mission is to promote printed board and printed board assembly design as a profession and to encourage, facilitate and promote the exchange of information and integration of new design concepts through communications, seminars, workshops and professional certification through a network of local chapters. Founded in 1992, the Designers Council now serves more than 1,100 members and has certified 1,600 designers. For more information, visit http://dc.ipc.org.
About IPC
IPC is a Northbrook, Ill.-based trade association dedicated to the competitive excellence and financial success of its more than 2,400 member companies, which represent all facets of the electronic interconnection industry, including design, printed circuit board manufacturing and electronics assembly. As a member-driven organization and leading source for industry standards, training, market research and public policy advocacy, IPC supports programs to meet the needs of a $44 billion U.S. industry employing more than 400,000 people. IPC maintains offices in Taos, N.M.; Washington, D.C.; Garden Grove, Calif.; and Shanghai, China. For more information, visit http://www.ipc.org.
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