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From: Brooks,Bill
Sent: Thursday, November 13, 2003 12:33 PM
To: Brooks,Bill
Subject: Meeting - SD Chapter of the IPC Designers Council - RSVP by next
Tuesday the 18th

***********San Diego IPC DC Meeting Announcement*************

 The San Diego Chapter of the IPC Designer's Council is pleased to present
the following:

Who: Bill Brooks, CID, CII
What: Obsolete Chip Replacement - A Design Strategy
Where: Overland Storage, San Diego

When: Wed, November 19th 2003 @ 6PM
!!! Mark your Calendar for Wed., Nov 19th, 2003 !!!
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San Diego Chapter of the IPC Designers Council
Meeting Announcement
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You are invited to attend!
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Wednesday Nov 19th, 2003

Bill Brooks, C.I.D., C.I.I.

of

TITAN CORPORATION
DATRON WORLD COMMUNICATIONS DIVISION

'Obsolete Chip Replacement - A Design Strategy'

Many designs need to have a product life for 10 years or longer. Military
Products, Microwave transceivers, Cell sites, utility installations that can
supported for years beyond the sale. Supporting or manufacturing a long term
product can be difficult if you don't have access to the parts. The problem
arises when IC manufacturers see a drop in sales for specific IC's that you
have designed into your product and they find it difficult to justify
continuing making the specific chip. This leaves your long life product
without a source for parts. What can you do? Buy from Grey Market vendors?
Make life time buys of parts and stock them for years, and then what? What
if you CAN'T get the part? Do you redesign the product? Do you just give up
and stop supporting or manufacturing it? Bill will discuss an answer to this
design problem that will work for most long term products and you can do it
too!


Biography  of  William (Bill) R. Brooks, CID, CII

Bill Brooks has been a PCB designer for over 30 years. He started working
with printed circuits in 1970 in a small prototype PCB shop in Vista
California. Bill has worked as a PCB fabricator, an electronics technician,
a mechanical designer during his career and has a depth of experience to
draw upon. Bill worked with many types of circuits in his career including
RF, Microwave, VHF, UHF, Digital, Analog, Switcher power supplies, Cellular
technology, military, commercial, industrial, consumer electronics, cable
television, satellite telecommunications, fire safety, industrial controls,
internet based electronics, deep sea applications, telemetry, direction
finding, radar instrumentation, test equipment... and more.  Bill Brooks
received his certification as a CID in 2000, and went on to qualify as a CID
instructor in 2002. Bill was invited to compete in the PCB WEST Top Gun PCB
two day design competition in 2000 and published an article in PCB Design
Magazine in February of 2002 entitled 'Unlocking Legacy Designs'. Bill
taught PCB design in community college and is an active member of many of
the IPC Designers Council committees and has been on the San Diego Chapter
Board of Directors for over 3 years.  Bill is currently a PCB Design
Engineer in Vista, Ca. and is working on HF and VHF military and emergency 2
way radios for Titan, Datron World Communications Division. Their website is
at http://www.dtwc.com <http://www.dtwc.com>  <http://www.dtwc.com
<http://www.dtwc.com> >


Hosted by the San Diego Chapter of the IPC Designers
<http://dcchapters.ipc.org/SanDiego/ <http://dcchapters.ipc.org/SanDiego/> >
Council

Agenda:

 Dinner served at 6:00 PM
 Meeting start at 6:30PM
 Chapter Business 6:30pm - 6:45pm
 Presentation 6:45pm - 7:45pm
 Questions and answers 7:45PM to 8:00PM
 Adjourn 8:00pm

This event will be held at:

Overland Storage <http://www.overlandstorage.com
<http://www.overlandstorage.com> >
4820 Overland Avenue
San Diego, California 92123
1-800-729-8725
1-858-571-5555

Directions:

From Los Angeles:

From the 5 Fwy south, take the 805 Fwy South exit on the left. Approximately
6 miles later, exit at the Clairemont Mesa Blvd. West/Clairemont Mesa Blvd.
East exit. Go East. Turn right onto Clairemont Mesa Blvd. Turn right onto
Overland Avenue. Overland Storage is located on the right side of Overland
Avenue.

From the Border on I-5 North:


 From the 5 Fwy North, take the 15 Fwy North exit towards Riverside for
approx. 3 miles. Then take the 805 Fwy North exit towards Los Angeles. Turn
a slight left at the intersection of I-8 East/I-8 West ramp to stay on the
805 Fwy North. Take the 163 Fwy North towards Escondido. Exit at the
Clairemont Mesa  Blvd. West/Clairemont Mesa Blvd. East exit. Go East. Keep
right at the fork in the ramp. Turn right onto Clairemont Mesa Blvd.  Turn
right onto Overland Avenue. Overland Storage is located on the right side of
Overland Avenue.


 From I-15 going South:

Take the Clairemont Mesa Blvd. exit and turn right onto Clairemont Mesa
Blvd. Turn left onto Overland Avenue. Overland Storage is located on the
right side of Overland Avenue.

 RSVP to [log in to unmask] <mailto:[log in to unmask]>
<mailto:[log in to unmask] <mailto:[log in to unmask]> > prior to Tuesday,
Nov18th, 2003.
* Dinner will be served!! @ 6:00PM *

IPC Designers Council Members will be admitted free of charge, Non-Members
will be asked to contribute a $5.00 donation at the door. Contributors will
get a $5.00 discount applied to their membership should they decide to join
the IPC Designers Council at the event. More information about the IPC
Designers Council is available on-line at
http://dcchapters.ipc.org/SanDiego/ <http://dcchapters.ipc.org/SanDiego/>
<http://dcchapters.ipc.org/SanDiego/ <http://dcchapters.ipc.org/SanDiego/> >
or http://dc.ipc.org/ <http://dc.ipc.org/>  <http://dc.ipc.org/
<http://dc.ipc.org/> >


Bill Brooks
PCB Design Engineer , C.I.D., C.I.I.
TITAN CORPORATION
DATRON WORLD COMMUNICATIONS DIVISION
3030 Enterprise Court, Vista, CA 92083
Email: [log in to unmask] <mailto:[log in to unmask]> , [log in to unmask]
<mailto:[log in to unmask]>
Website: http://www.titan.com/business_units/index.html?organization_id=81
Tel <http://www.titan.com/business_units/index.html?organization_id=81Tel> :
(760)597-1500 Ext 3772 Fax: (760)597-1510
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Member of the San Diego Chapter of the IPC Designers Council
Communications Officer, Web Manager
http://dcchapters.ipc.org/SanDiego/
http://home.fda.net/bbrooks/pca/pca.htm
<http://dcchapters.ipc.org/SanDiego/http://home.fda.net/bbrooks/pca/pca.htm>




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