PEACHTREE CITY, GA – PCEA will sponsor a pair of webinars in April featuring technical talks on protective nanocoatings and reverse engineering.
Both webinars are free to PCEA members.
On April 11, Ethan Pierce will explain a how to leverage assembled circuit boards without design data to be recovered and recreated. Often end-of-life or existing systems have design data that is lost, abandoned, or of unknown origin which is a rising concern among teams building or maintaining these systems. Using a set of software and hardware agnostic processes, this course analyzes a design of unknown origin and recreates that design with a set of commonly available tools, while teaching attendees how to do the same.
For details: https://register.gotowebinar.com/register/5313990704026084953.
On April 25, Richard Weiland of HZO will present on real-world examples where significant product challenges were presented (such as humidity, temperature, or corrosion) and the investment of time and resources focused on device dependability and functional testing. Data analysis from industry standard testing methodologies as well as application-specific approaches will be presented to demonstrate how nanocoating solutions can provide the protection required for such end-use environments.
For details: https://register.gotowebinar.com/register/3913649396243488597.
More on Reverse Engineering PCBs: How to Recreate a Lost Design:
This webinar presents a skillset to technicians, designers, and engineers that leverages assembled circuit boards without design data to be recovered and recreated. Often end-of-life or existing systems have design data that is lost, abandoned, or of unknown origin, which is a rising concern among teams building or maintaining these systems. Using a set of software and hardware agnostic processes this course analyzes a design of unknown origin and recreates that design with a set of commonly available tools. Once equipped with this skillset, attendees will have with the knowledge to recreate and recover lost or unavailable design data on current and future projects.
This course presents a baseline skillset, whereafter attendees can begin recovering design data. Attendees are responsible to take the course content and establish a workflow that is accessible with available software and hardware.
The course will introduce:
- Basic reverse-engineering techniques with benchtop test equipment
- Reworking and testing techniques
- Identifying PCB structures Identifying components
- Using photography and image manipulation tools
- Migrating the design into a generic ECAD tool.
Registration: This special one-hour webinar is free to all PCEA members. To register for PCEA, visit https://pcea.net/pcea-membership. Individual membership is free. To register for the webinar, visit https://attendee.gotowebinar.com/register/5313990704026084953.
Who should attend: PCB Designer/Design Engineer, System Designer, Hardware Engineer, SI Engineer, Test Engineer
Experience level: Beginner, Intermediate
About the speaker: Ethan Pierce is director of hardware engineering at Pierce Design, working with global customers to build and deploy IoT solutions. An electrical engineer by trade, Ethan has spent his career building, consumer, medical, and defense connected products at leading hardware companies to leading IoT platform companies. His specialty is maintaining holistic design intent from concept to mass production, producing successful products at scale.
More on Safeguarding Electrical Components and Devices with Nanocoating Technology:
Thin-film nanocoatings can protect critical electronic circuitry that is used throughout a variety of applications and can be a powerful solution to implement to ensure reliability. Only requiring nanometers- to microns-thin coating, plasma-enhanced nanocoatings are dense, highly cross-linked, multilayer films that create a physical and chemical barrier around components to enable an envelope around the circuitry at a molecular level. The result is dependable functionality in harsh environments that may include moisture, sweat, etc. Plasma-enhanced nanocoatings leverage various liquids and gas chemistries to provide fast deposition cycles that are repeatable and scalable to projects of different sizes, use environments, and performance standards.
Every connected electronic has a unique set of parameters that should be recognized and evaluated to confirm that conformal coating solutions are customized to the application and desired functionality. Whether it’s a specific engineering design, manufacturing limitation, or cost requirement, significant considerations are analyzed before a coating ever reaches an end-product. A vast amount of data regarding conformal coatings, and specifically plasma-enhanced nanocoatings, are available. Fitting the data to an intended purpose, however, can be time-intensive and challenging. In this presentation, Weiland will focus on real-world examples where significant product challenges were presented (such as humidity, temperature, or corrosion) and the investment of time and resources focused on device dependability and functional testing. Data analysis from industry standard testing methodologies as well as application-specific approaches will be presented to demonstrate that nanocoating solutions ultimately provide the protection required for challenging end-use environments encountered during everyday operation.
Registration: This special one-hour webinar is free to all PCEA members. To register for PCEA, visit https://pcea.net/pcea-membership. Individual membership is free. To register for the webinar, visit https://register.gotowebinar.com/register/3913649396243488597.
Who should attend: PCB Designer/Design Engineer, System Designer, Hardware Engineer, SI Engineer, Test Engineer
Experience level: Beginner, Intermediate, Advanced
About the speaker: Richard Weiland is director of nanocoating applications for HZO Inc. Richard has a bachelor’s in chemical engineering from Bucknell University and an MBA from North Carolina State. Prior to joining HZO, he held process development, project engineering, and business development manager roles with Cormetech, a company that specializes in environmental pollution control and services.
