March 2012

FEATURES

Conformal Coatings
Protecting Silicon with Silicone
Silicone chemistry is a unique combination: neither purely organic (i.e., carbon-based) nor purely inorganic (i.e., silicon-based), but a molecular-level hybrid of both. The nature of the Si-O bond in the polymer backbone creates low rotation barriers and large bond energies. This inorganic polysiloxane backbone provides the foundation for building materials with superior thermal properties, environmental resistance and flexibility, even at temperatures below -70oC. New systems are more robust, faster curing and require less energy than conventional chemistry.
by Brian Chambers

Data Transfer
Viasystems’ Approach to CAD-to-CAM Data Transfer
At Viasystems, the top issue is the amount of time required to successfully import, analyze and prepare design packages for production tooling. With full utilization of ODB++ files, the board fabricator has found it can greatly reduce the amount of manual time-consuming human interaction, and reduce opportunity for quality errors.
by Kent Balius, Stephan Hackl and Julian Coates

 

FIRST PERSON

  • Caveat Lector
    Happy anniversary.
    Mike Buetow


MONEY MATTERS

  • ROI
    Secret to success.
    Peter Bigelow

 

TECH TALK

  • Designer’s Notebook
    Improving the design to fabrication handoff.
    Max Clark

  • The Flexperts
    Plane layer epoxy.
    Mark Finstad

  • Tech Tips
    Component whisker mitigation.
    ACI Technologies
  • Technical Abstracts
    In case you missed it.

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