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PCB DESIGN
Using Systems Design Methodology to Manage Complex PCB Designs
Managing the hundreds of interconnections between boards and external connectors and controls, manually, and without error, is virtually impossible. Is there a better way to ensure new configurations communication and design synchronization?
by Rainer Asfalg And Andy Watts

RETROSPECTIVE
In Memoriam
A look back at friends and colleagues who left us in 2014.

FIRST PERSON

• CAVEAT LECTOR
  Giving it away.
  Mike Buetow

MONEY MATTERS

• ROI
  The fab sandwich.
  Peter Bigelow
  

• FOCUS ON BUSINESS
  Cushioning the blows.
  Susan Mucha

TECH TALK

• ON THE FOREFRONT
  IoT: It’s all in the package.
  E. Jan Vardaman
• DESIGNER’S NOTEBOOK
  Pad-to-via clearance effects.
  Scott Fillebrown
• THE FLEXPERTS
  Just what are “local equivalent materials?”
  Mark Finstad

• TECH TIPS
  Minimizing BTC voiding.
  Karl Seelig and Tim O’Neill