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TRACE MODELING
How AC Currents Affect PCB Trace Temperatures
Methods for estimating how AC currents behave on PCB traces, and verification with empirical testing.
by Douglas G. Brooks, Ph.D., and Dr. Johannes Adam

RIGID-FLEX DESIGN
Ensuring Reliable Products with New Rigid-Flex Design Rules
Using both the rigid and the flexible areas of a PCB for component placement, while possible, introduces new design constraints that require more advanced PCB design strategies. Rules and guidelines for routing and placement.
by Jim Frey

IPC Material Declarations: Sufficient for Automotive Electronics?
IMDS and IPC-1752A are different tools for reporting materials data, created by separate industries for different purposes. Suppliers of automotive electronics are obligated to use both, but should they?
by Derrik Snider

FIRST PERSON

• CAVEAT LECTOR
  Seller beware.
  Mike Buetow

MONEY MATTERS

• ROI
  Printing money.
  Peter Bigelow
  

• FOCUS ON BUSINESS
  Researching your investments.
  Susan Mucha
• GLOBAL SOURCING
  A broker is not a builder.
  Greg Papandrew

TECH TALK

• ON THE FOREFRONT
  Big fans of fan-out.
  E. Jan Vardaman
• DESIGNER’S NOTEBOOK
  Designing in “robustness.”
  Josh Moore
• THE FLEXPERTS
  All wrapped up.
  Mark Finstad

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