Event: One Day Material Selection and Fabrication Techniques course co-presented with Isola Group
Date: April 17, 2012—REGISTRATION DEADLINE: March 16th,2012
Location: Hilton Orange County/Costa Mesa
3050 Bristol Street
Costa Mesa, CA 92626Today's high-speed PCBs, with their inherent signal integrity and power delivery requirements, make it necessary to employ far more discipline in the choice of materials and the arrangement of layers in the stackup. These requirements are outside the skill set of all PCB fabricators. The objective of this course is to guide the design engineer through the process of evaluating and selecting the right laminate for any given design and then designing a PCB stackup that meets the numerous requirements of a complex, multilayer board that works right the first time.
The first portion of this class consists of a one-hour session conducted by Isola Group. Topics that will be addressed include the building blocks available for core and prepreg materials, the impact of material selection; an overview of available materials and what designers should be looking for during the evaluation and selection process.
The second portion of the class is conducted by Lee Ritchey, founder and president of Speeding Edge who is considered to be one of the industry's premier authorities on the design and manufacture of high-speed PCB systems. The fast data paths that are pervasive in all PCB products being currently designed make it imperative to be able to design stackups that have predictable and repeatable impedances. This new five hour training session addresses several industry-critical issues including accounting for copper roughness and its affect on overall signal loss; specifying copper roughness to ensure repeatable loss from lot to lot and fabricator to fabricator; specifying glass weave styles to minimize differential skew; determining plane copper thickness to ensure power delivery needs are met and specifying dielectric materials that are readily available and economical to manufacture. FOR A FULL DESCRIPTION OF THIS CLASS, CLICK HERE.
What’s Included:
*3-ring binder containing all presentation slides used in class
*Signed course certificate
* Copy of Right the First Time Volume 1 Book on CD-ROM
*Continental breakfast and lunch and snacks both days
Cost: $500 per student. Course registration can be done at www.speedingedge.com. If you have questions or require additional information, please contact Speeding Edge at 707-568-3983 or send an e-mail to kjspeedingedge@cs.com