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January 18, 2018
Four Steps for Avoiding Surprise In-Use Product Failures
As we witness the birth of an era of connected devices with smart homes, connected cars and smart networked supply chains and factories, we might imagine that unexpected failures of electronic products would be a rarity.
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As we witness the birth of an era of connected devices with smart homes, connected cars and smart networked supply chains and factories, we might ...
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December 07, 2017
How Virtual Prototyping Tools Can Help Decide if Fan-out Wafer-level Packaging is Right For Your Product
Since it contributed to making the iPhone 7 even thinner than its predecessors, fan-out wafer-level packaging (FO-WLP) technology has risen in the collective consciousness. By adopting FO-WLP on this scale, Apple sent out a signal that though highly novel, the technology had matured.
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Since it contributed to making the iPhone7 even thinner than its predecessors, fan-out wafer-level packaging (FO-WLP) technology has risen in the ...
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November 16, 2017
What High Tech Industries Can Learn about Managing Data from the Early Days of CAD
Because I’ve been in the electrical/electronics (E/E) engineering industry for such a long time, I can still remember drawing PCB layouts manually. We would then work out the connection lengths of wire harnesses by laying out waxed cord lacing on a physical prototype.
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Because I’ve been in the electrical/electronics (E/E) engineering industry for such a long time, I can still remember drawing PCB layouts manual...
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November 13, 2017
Toshiba – RF Module Shrink (TransferJet™)
Toshiba faced a difficult design problem: their TransferJet™ technology was embedded in a customer cell phone, and when the next rev of the phone came around, they learned that they needed to shrink the board from 8mm x 8mm to 4.5mm x 6mm, and they had to shrink the module thickness from 1.7mm to 1.0mm...
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Toshiba faced a difficult design problem: their TransferJet™ technology was embedded in a customer cell phone, and when the next rev of the phon...
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October 11, 2017
The Challenges of 3D PCB Designing (PCB West Interview)
During PCB West Exhibition Day, Sierra Circuits met Humair Mandavia, Chief Strategy Officer at Zuken. After his joint interview with Simon Fried, CBO of Nano Dimension, we discussed 3D PCB designing, and Zuken’s product, CR-8000 with him.
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During PCB West Exhibition Day, Sierra met Humair Mandavia, Chief Strategy Officer at Zuken. After his joint interview with Simon Fried, CBO of Na...
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October 09, 2017
How to Improve Flexible Printed Circuit Manufacturing (PCB West Interview)
Sierra met Steve Watt, Manager of PCB Engineering at Zuken, during PCB West 2017 at the Santa Clara Convention Center. After his presentation on how to improve flexible printed circuit manufacturing, he shared a few tips in front of our camera. Listen to him discuss CR-8000, DfM checks, and flexible PCB designing.
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Sierra Circuits met Steve Watt, Manager of PCB Engineering at Zuken, during PCB West 2017 at the Santa Clara Convention Center. After his presenta...
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September 26, 2017
Improve Design Data Security Across Your Enterprise
This is one pretty scary world we live in. Every day there are stories about data breaches, network hacks and even possible spying by foreign software and hardware suppliers. Every individual has become hyper-aware of the security issues revolving around their personal data. A company’s need to protect its design IP is actually more critical than an individual’s need to protect their personal data.
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It is essential to insure that you are taking the necessary steps to maximize your product revenue while protecting your company’s intellectual ...
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September 19, 2017
25 Years of High Speed Design – Looking Back to the Future
It’s 25 years since the first FED Conference took place in Berlin back in 1993, as a gathering for the German-speaking electronic and PCB-related industry. This also happened to be the year we consider as the birth of high-speed design.
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It’s 25 years since the first FED Conference took place in Berlin back in 1993, as a gathering for the German-speaking electronic and PCB-relate...
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September 15, 2017
Does the Release Process to Manufacturing Keep You Up at Night?
Have you ever finished generating the manufacturing release package for the latest product design and then it occurred to you that something may be wrong? Imagine, it’s Thursday night and you just finished a nice dinner with the family. Your daughter’s soccer team won and the Broncos are playing the Chiefs tonight. It will be great to relax and enjoy the game.
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Have you ever finished generating the manufacturing release package for the latest product design and then it occurred to you that something may b...
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August 29, 2017
A Few Thoughts on Avoiding DDR4 Layout Problems
DDR4, the fourth generation of DDR SDRAM technology, is the latest and greatest SDRAM standard and will continue to be until the fifth generation is released. The new standard features a point-to-point architecture that offers superior timing margins.
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August 22, 2017
Translating New Product Requirements into Hardware Architecture
Defining initial hardware architecture requires many decisions, most of which impact a variety of different stakeholders and requirements – including multiple design tools – circuit design, PCB layout, mechanical design, spreadsheets, etc. that are used to track different elements of the design.
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Defining initial hardware architecture requires many decisions, most of which impact a variety of different stakeholders and requirements – incl...
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August 02, 2017
Hardware Architecture Design Becomes the Next Competitive Requirement
After a lengthy quiet period, the hardware design process is suddenly experiencing numerous changes in the form of design discipline convergence and process extension. The widely used 2D single board PCB detailed design process is being replaced by a 3D multi-board and multi-discipline one.
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Hardware architecture design is becoming a competitive requirement as product complexity is on the rise and the room for error is shrinking.
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July 14, 2017
Renishaw Designs Flex PCBs in True 3D with MCAD Integration using Zuken's CR-8000
The PCB design team at Renishaw work with flex PCBs and flexi-rigid boards that require detailed signal integrity analysis. To achieve the most accurate results they are working with Zuken’s electronic PCB design software to visualize boards in 3D using imported MCAD data. This also ensures that sure high-speed digital signals can be transmitted with minimal distortion.
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When Renishaw decided to migrate to Zuken’s latest PCB design suite in 2016, a main driver was the suite’s capabilities for designing and anal...
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June 21, 2017
Predictive Failure Analysis Can Improve Product Quality: The Reality - Part 2 of 2
I recently talked on predictive failure analysis at the PTC LiveWorx 2017 conference. There was a lot of audience interest, so I thought I’d share some of the things I discussed. This is the second of two posts on this subject.
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We all know that manufacturing yields and costs are the driving force behind product development, rather than product quality.
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June 15, 2017
Predictive Failure Analysis Can Improve Product Quality - Part 1 of 2
I recently talked on predictive failure analysis at the PTC LiveWorx 2017 conference. There was a lot of audience interest, so I thought I’d share some of the things I discussed.
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The good news is that more and more devices are becoming part of the Internet of Things (IoT), which extends the design team’s visibility beyond...
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June 06, 2017
Design Time vs. Admin Overheads: How to Win the Battle by Closing the Gaps
No more distractions, please! 45% of our time is already spent on admin. If you’re the average engineer, that is.
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Techconsult, a German-based analyst firm has just found that almost half of the engineering time of any manufacturing company is spent feeding sys...