Tag: PCB Foundations

PCB Foundations – Book

We at Nine Dot Connects are excited to release our book, PCB Foundations.  For grins, we decided to reach out to Steve O’Blenis, the owner of Warbucks Designs, to see what fun he could have with an image or two to promote the book.  Steve is a big pop culture/movie fan with a knack for combining different pop culture concepts.  Steve provided us with these two images:

Oddly, though Steve did not have a copy of the book when he created the image, page 88 of the 1st edition is the very last page before introducing the design process.

How true, but maybe a bit too edgy…

If you would like to see more of Steve’s work, check out warbucksdesign.com

And, of course, if you would like to purchase PCB Foundations, click HERE:

The Dedicated PCB Layout Artist – Is This a Sustainable Profession?

The August 2017 edition of Printed Circuit Design and Fab Circuits Assembly acknowledged what many of us PCB designers have suspected; there is a strong need to train young people in the art of PCB design.  It is becoming a lost art in a time when it is ever so needed.  With the current technological upswing, it is truly a great time to be an experienced PCB designer.  But while being an experienced PCB designer is one thing, getting more people to embrace a job as a dedicated PCB designer is another.

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Detangling a Power Short

Preface:  Mark Saunders is currently a senior at the Rochester Institute of Technology.  He is one of the few undergraduate students with a working knowledge of PCB design.  Although his focus is firmware, he has used Altium Designer for several personal and class projects.

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Thermal Management and Yet again Why Mechanical Engineers Better Get Involved in PCB Design

In a recent article published in PCB Design 007 (January 2018 – See link below), one of the few Ph. D’s in the printed circuit board industry was interviewed regarding thermal issues.  In particular, he and a colleague were questioning the numbers that have been long held as definitive facts.  When we have an electronic product in our hands, there is a gross assumption that the thermal issues have been well thought out.  Between questionable data and lack of knowledge in thermodynamics, this may not be the case.

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