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Schematic Design
Advanced Block Organization in Schematic Design and Layout
Designs using blocks are much easier to check and maintain, saving precious design time. A lesser-known hierarchical capability called the virtual block is especially useful for smaller schematics.
by Abby Monaco

EMS Top 50
Bend, Don’t Break
If the EMS market in 2012 were a movie, it would have been the good (Nam Tai), the bad (the effects of RIM) and the ugly (Elcoteq). But most of the world’s 50 largest contract assemblers absorbed the blows from shrinking PC and cellphone margins and set their sights on the more profitable (if smaller) automotive and industrial sectors.
by Mike Buetow

ESD Basics
Managing Your ESD Program
Enjoy all the software tools, but don’t forget the procedures.
by The ESD Association

FIRST PERSON

• Caveat Lector
  Knotted up.
  Mike Buetow

MONEY MATTERS

• ROI
  Incorporating new technology.
  Peter Bigelow

• Focus on Business
  Relationship make or breaks.
  Susan Mucha

TECH TALK

• Designer’s Notebook
  Design for test.
  W. Scott Fillebrown

• Final Finishes
  Microetch, major player.
  Lenora Toscano

• In Flex
  Flex circuit integration.
  Dale Wesselmann

• Solar Technologies
  Dual print processes.
  Tom Falcon

• Technical Abstracts
  In case you missed it.