Atotech will present "Potential Low-Cost Palladium-Alternatives for Activating Electroless Copper Deposition" during this year's show.

Jay Trott of dBm Marketing has recently joined DYCONEX's sales force; the company is a corporate sponsor of the upcoming 2010 Medical Electronics Symposium at Arizona State University.

EIPC extends an invitation to researchers, academics, technical experts and industry leaders around the world to submit abstracts for the 12th Electronic Circuits World Convention taking place November 9-11, 2011, at the Taipei Nangang Exhibition Centre, Taiwan.

The workshop aims to discuss new design options for improved technologies, new basic materials for higher reliability, new components and component types for miniaturization and future developments and trends in the rigid and rigid-flex PCB industry.

Designing differential pairs is challenging enough, and the "alphabet soup" of high-speed serial links such as SATA, SAS and XAUI create more problems as you move from 1 Gbps to 10 Gbps and beyond. Eric Bogatin discusses some of the cutting-edge design techniques he'll be teaching at his "Differential Pair Boot Camp" in Santa Clara on October 4.

R&D Circuits will be presenting two papers on ATE loaded board test and board reliability at the upcoming Silicon Valley Test Conference and Expo 2010, November 8-9 in San Jose, California.

Europe's leading PCB manufacturer Wurth Elektronik is on the road again, running Design Conferences throughout Europe and India. The presentations examine design issues surrounding standard PCBs as well as those relating to innovative advanced technologies.

The €1.7 million EU-funded InForm project, involving 17 world-leading research institutions working together, is bringing together scientists to make the new advances in nanotechnology practical and useful, by combining them into things we use everyday.

American Standard Circuits, Inc. has announced that they will be a corporate sponsor of Eric Bogatin's Signal Integrity Boot Camp in Silicon Valley, California, October 4, 2010.

This year's conference theme is "Globally Responsive Forward Support," highlighting DLA's role in providing worldwide logistics support and the need for continued collaborative leadership supporting the global supply chain with greater efficiency and at reduced cost.

As frequencies get faster and designs get more complex, the electrical and thermal properties of PCBs are becoming a more critical factor in system designs. Many board developers don't realize that moisture in boards can significantly alter their performance.

IPC and Canon Communications have joined forces to produce Electronics Midwest, an exhibition and technical conference for the assembly and PCB design and manufacturing industries. Providing business and technology solutions that save time, energy and money, the event will bring the best of the global electronics industry together, September 28-30, 2010.

The new symposium will help attendees get up to speed on the latest regulatory developments from around the globe, including chemical regulations in Asia, changes to REACH and RoHS, implementation of system for labeling chemicals, the Canadian Chemicals Management Plan and California's Green Chemistry Initiative.

Paul Reid reviews the Reliability Workshop Bonus Program at EIPC Nuremberg 2010. Yes, he was one of the speakers, but read on--you'll learn something. However you approach it, reliability testing is more critical than ever now, especially if you're designing or fabricating cutting-edge PCBs.

A special Executive Market & Technology Conference on high-reliability and American competitiveness will be offered June 9, 2010 in Washington, D.C. The event is co-located with IPC's Capitol Hill Day--a day to help Congress see the importance of enacting a permanent R&D tax credit to aid American manufacturers.

IPC announced the 2010 Best Industry Posters and the winners of the second annual IPC Academic Poster Competition at APEX. "Every year, the quality and relevance of the industry posters further enhances the opportunities to gain new information at IPC APEX Expo," said Greg Munie, Conference Director.

Dr. Eric Bogatin, in conjunction with PCBDesign007 China, recently delivered his first signal integrity workshop in China. He sat down with Editor Steve Gold to relate a few of the topics attendees had a chance to explore. Dr. Bogatin also gives details of a new San Jose, California course he's developing.

Technical Project Manager John Perry discusses two of the biggest IPC documents expected to be released at IPC APEX Expo 2010--the IPC-6012 and IPC-A-600 revisions. Perry delivers in-depth analysis of what is being revised within each standard, as neither has been updated since 2004.

ICT welcomed delegates last week to the UK's Devonport Hotel for the first Darlington Seminar of 2010, which included presentations from Lamar Group, Park Electrochemical, Electronics Yorkshire and IeMRC. I-Connect007's European Editor Pete Starkey was there and gives a full report.

IPC APEX Expo will be bustling with more attendees, more than 300 exhibitors and more ways to discover the latest in electronics manufacturing, including six free educational forums taking place on the show floor.

Designing differential pairs is challenging enough, and the "alphabet soup" of high-speed serial links such as SATA, SAS and XAUI create more problems as you move from 1 Gbps to 10 Gbps and beyond. Eric Bogatin discusses some of the cutting-edge design techniques he'll be teaching at his "Differential Pair Boot Camp" in Santa Clara on October 4.

Many Internet sources provide education and training in our respective fields. You just have to know where to look. It's not quite like attending a live training event, but you can improve your skill set through the Internet, and you can often do so free of charge.

Paul Reid reviews the Reliability Workshop Bonus Program at EIPC Nuremberg 2010. Yes, he was one of the speakers, but read on--you'll learn something. However you approach it, reliability testing is more critical than ever now, especially if you're designing or fabricating cutting-edge PCBs.

Pyrolytic what? Yash Sutariya, VP of Saturn Electronics, and Mark Breloff, technical sales manager for Minteq, discuss a thermal packaging solution that combines the heat dissipation benefits of a graphite material with the mechanical benefits of FR-4, resulting in a cost-effective mounting material.

In the run-up to IPC APEX Expo 2010, we're going to focus on some of the workshops taking place in Las Vegas on Designers Day, April 8, 2010. This week, we'll talk to Dan Smith about his course "HDI: 21st Century Design" and Ruth Delker regarding her "10 Things Every Designer Should Know" class.

Technical Project Manager John Perry discusses two of the biggest IPC documents expected to be released at IPC APEX Expo 2010--the IPC-6012 and IPC-A-600 revisions. Perry delivers in-depth analysis of what is being revised within each standard, as neither has been updated since 2004.

ICT welcomed delegates last week to the UK's Devonport Hotel for the first Darlington Seminar of 2010, which included presentations from Lamar Group, Park Electrochemical, Electronics Yorkshire and IeMRC. I-Connect007's European Editor Pete Starkey was there and gives a full report.

DesignCon's first-ever PCB Summit provided PCB design engineers a seat at the "grown-up table." Is PCB design finally getting its share of consideration in the industry?

Perhaps no other organization in our industry polarizes people like IPC. For some, the association can do no right; others behave more like Obama volunteers walking lock-step with the president no matter what public approval ratings and unemployment statistics say.

Functional printing of mass-produced organic electronics is based on various rapidly-evolving processes: flexographic printing, a subset of relief printing, transfers the ink from a printing form to plastic substrates.

Designing differential pairs is challenging enough, and the "alphabet soup" of high-speed serial links such as SATA, SAS and XAUI create more problems as you move from 1 Gbps to 10 Gbps and beyond. Eric Bogatin discusses some of the cutting-edge design techniques he'll be teaching at his "Differential Pair Boot Camp" in Santa Clara on October 4.

Many Internet sources provide education and training in our respective fields. You just have to know where to look. It's not quite like attending a live training event, but you can improve your skill set through the Internet, and you can often do so free of charge.

In the run-up to IPC APEX Expo 2010, we're going to focus on some of the workshops taking place in Las Vegas on Designers Day, April 8, 2010. This week, we'll talk to Dan Smith about his course "HDI: 21st Century Design" and Ruth Delker regarding her "10 Things Every Designer Should Know" class.

ICT welcomed delegates last week to the UK's Devonport Hotel for the first Darlington Seminar of 2010, which included presentations from Lamar Group, Park Electrochemical, Electronics Yorkshire and IeMRC. I-Connect007's European Editor Pete Starkey was there and gives a full report.

DesignCon's first-ever PCB Summit provided PCB design engineers a seat at the "grown-up table." Is PCB design finally getting its share of consideration in the industry?

Perhaps no other organization in our industry polarizes people like IPC. For some, the association can do no right; others behave more like Obama volunteers walking lock-step with the president no matter what public approval ratings and unemployment statistics say.

It was a star-studded conference with fabricators looking to the government for support to develop the technologies needed along with commitments to strengthen the supply chain, while the government looked to the industry for solutions to its counterfeit components, reliability and supply chain security.

Editor Barry Matties returns from the 2009 HKPCA & IPC Show in China with a look at more than just the usual "show buzz."

Blackfox Institute and Export Solutions are helping to educate companies on export compliance laws and regulations. Al Dill of Blackfox and Don Buehler of Export Solutions discuss their partnership, as well as the free ITAR/EAR Webinar scheduled for December 8, 2009.

The fastest-growing market segment for Saturn Electronics is LED. But Saturn Vice President, Yash Sutariya, said the metalcore boards used for thermal management can give PCB designers trouble. He discusses Saturn's plans to educate customers through a thermal management Webinar December 2, 2009.