Team Cadence, Cadence
Enabling shorter, more predictable PCB design cycles with better integration of component design and system-level simulation.
Latest Column: All Systems Go: Accelerate Your PCB Designs with Machine Learning
Barry Olney, In-Circuit Design Pty. Ltd.
Barry focuses on advanced PCB design, signal integrity, and EMC design techniques.
Latest Column: Beyond Design: Copper Pours in High-speed Design
Kim O'Neil, Prototron Circuits
Kim discusses the daily challenges of running an American PCB fabricaton facility.
Latest Column: Circuit Chronicles: It’s All About the Team
Matt Stevenson, Sunstone Circuits
Matt Stevenson covers solutions to help your PCB projects succeed.
Latest Column: Connect the Dots: Bringing PCB Quoting Into the 21st Century
John Talbot, Tramonto Circuits
John focuses on flex and rigid-flex PCB and PCBA technologies, as well as various global business, technical, and market aspects.
Latest Column: Consider This: Designing Via-in-pad for Higher-Density Flexible Circuits
Dan Beaulieu, DB Management
Dan Beaulieu reviews new and classic books on succeeding in business.
Latest Column: Dan’s Biz Bookshelf: Fanocracy: Turning Fans into Customers and Customers into Fans
Dana Korf, Korf Consultancy LLC
Dana's columns focus on IPC-2581 as well as PCB front-end tooling, data quality, DFM processes, etc.
Latest Column: Dana on Data: DFM Issue Reduction—Company-specific PCB Acceptance Specifications
Patrick Crawford, IPC
Patrick Crawford provides updates on IPC Design activities.
Latest Column: Design Circuit: Green Ambition for the Electronics Manufacturing Industry
Vern Solberg, Consulting
This column will focus on technical issues related to PCB and Flex circuit design, etc.
Latest Column: Designers Notebook: Design for Test, Part 3
Team Siemens, Siemens Digital Industries Software
Siemens explores the digital thread from concept to manufacturing.
Latest Column: Digital Transformation: Supply Chain Resilience, Part 1—The Supply Chain Problem
John Watson, Altium
John Watson covers a variety of tips that designers need to know.
Latest Column: Elementary, Mr. Watson: The Anatomy of Your PCB Component, Part 1
Dan Feinberg, FeinLine Associates, Inc.
End-user technology and special features on end-user high technology products.
Latest Column: Fein-Lines: Virtual Reality is About to Get a Lot More Real—and Fun
Joe Fjelstad, Verdant Electronics
As author of the Flexible Circuit Technology books, Joe covers everything to do with flexible interconnections in this column.
Latest Column: Flexible Thinking: Blue Skying It With Aluminum Rigid-Flex
IPC Education Foundation, IPC
Members from the IPC Education Foundation share updates on programs and activities.
Latest Column: Foundations of the Future: Making Connections in Milwaukee
Team NCAB, NCAB Group
A variety of field application engineers from NCAB Group's technical team explore fresh PCB concepts.
Latest Column: Fresh PCB Concepts: Sustainability in PCB Design
Dan Beaulieu, DB Management
This weekly column is focused on helping electronics companies enhance their professional and technical image through sales and marketing, and, of course, common sense.
Latest Column: It’s Only Common Sense: Misconceptions About Millennials and How to Embrace Their Truth
John Coonrod, Rogers Corporation
John Coonrod offers PCB designers advice on modern laminates, with a focus on high-speed substrates.
Latest Column: Lightning Speed Laminates: An Overview of Copper Foils
Clive "Max" Maxfield, Clive Maxfield High-Tech Consulting
Max focuses on EDA tools, PCB design techniques, and innovative technologies of the past, present, and future.
Latest Column: Maxed Out: Component Search Engine is a Total Game Changer
John Mitchell, IPC
John will cover issues affecting the entire global electronics industry supply chain.
Latest Column: One World, One Industry: Working Together to Address Workforce Challenges
Tara Dunn, Averatek
When it comes to additive circuits, Tara really knows what she is talking about!
Latest Column: PCB Talk: Is DWM Just Another Buzzword?
Duane Benson, Screaming Circuits
Duane offers tips and tricks for PCB assembly issues.
Latest Column: Powerful Prototypes: Small Computer Modules
Istvan Novak, Samtec
Focusing on signal and power integrity issues related to PCB design and design engineering.
Latest Column: Quiet Power: Uncompensated DC Drop in Power Distribution Networks
Team Electrolube, Electrolube
Team Electrolube illustrates the best PCB design practices for optimizing the conformal coating process.
Latest Column: Sensible Design: Optimize Your Thermal Management
Anaya Vardya, American Standard Circuits
This column strives to make all facets of printed circuit board technology clear and easy to understand.
Latest Column: Standard of Excellence: Respect for the Most Preferred Partnership—Your Employees
Kelly Dack, EPTAC Corporation
Kelly’s column pursues the need for stakeholder advocacy in the printed circuit industry head-on, deliberating topics essential for helping one another achieve 100% acceptability in PCB engineering, design, procurement, sales, manufacturing, test and inspection.
Latest Column: Target Condition: Designing With the 5Ws and Other Acronyms
Mark Thompson, Out of the Box Manufacturing
Mark Thompson discusses PCB design from a fabricator's viewpoint, with a focus on DFM issues.
Latest Column: The Bare (Board) Truth: My Top Six Design Challenges
Mike Buetow, Printed Circuit Engineering Association
This column is dedicated to providing news about PCB design classes and events, as well as helping engineers, designers, and anyone related to printed circuit design from around the globe to network and share information.
Latest Column: Going in Circles, or WEEE Don’t Need No Regulation
Chris Mitchell, IPC
In this column, IPC VP of Global Government Affairs Chris Mitchell and his team provide news and views on government policies that affect the electronics industry and its supply chain.
Latest Column: The Government Circuit: U.S. Congress Gets Serious About Boosting U.S. PCB Sector
Team Elmatica, Elmatica
The PCB Norsemen from Elmatica share their knowledge, experience, technical advice, and thoughts about the fascinating world of PCBs.
Latest Column: The PCB Norsemen: Holy Cow, What a Lead Time
Martyn Gaudion, Polar Instruments
In his column, Martyn discusses signal integrity and impedance design test.
Latest Column: The Pulse: Using Touchstone Files to Build Measurement Confidence
Andy Shaughnessy, I-Connect007
Andy Shaughnessy discusses topics that are important to the community of PCB designers and design engineers.
Latest Column: The Shaughnessy Report: Proper Plating
Tim Haag, First Page Sage
Tim Haag discusses PCB design topics from his viewpoint as an EDA technologist and longtime board designer.
Latest Column: Tim's Takeaways: Today's Preparations for Tomorrow's PCB Designs
Imran Valiani, RUSH PCB Inc.
Imran Valiani addresses ways to get products to market as quickly as possible.
Latest Column: Time to Market: Ten Ways to Bring Your Product to Market