>A Desparate Plea..........!
>
>People,
>
>I am a fairly inexperienced PCB Layout Engineer situated in
Manchester,England. I started two
>years ago as a CAD librarian as a way in to the industry, after spending
nearly two years
>working in a PCB fab shop.
>
>My problem is this:- whilst I have laid out several boards (reasonably
simple multi-layers),
>I have never had any formal training so feel ill-equiped to tackle a
complicated design,
>High speed, RF, EMI critical etc. I have spent several weeks searching for
suitable training
>courses but the only decent ones I have found are usually in the States.
>
>The kind of training I'm looking for would include topics such as the
following:-
>
>        Good layout practices eg placement orientations, conductor widths etc
>        EMI layout - power distribution, decoupling, ground shielding etc
>        Digital layout techniques,
>        Analogue & RF layout techniques,
>
>basically anything that teaches good practices in PCB design. I have a
degree in Electrical
>and Electronic Engineering (albeit not a particularly good one!) and two
years limited
>"on the job" experience so I have a good grounding (if you'll pardon the
expression!), I just
>want to improve....
>
>IF ANYONE OUT THERE KNOWS OF ANY TRAINING COURSES IN THE UK, OR KNOWS WHO
MIGHT KNOW
>(ORGANISATIONS ETC) PLEASE PLEASE DROP ME A LINE.
>
>Thank you for listening......
>
>
>Adam Hawes - EDA Support Engineer
>
>Tel: 0161 491 9290 (Direct) or 0161 491 9191 (Switchboard)
>Fax: 0161 491 9106
>
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>go to silicon valley(san jose, ca.) to a course offered at the
  "copper connection" it is a great course, and you will be in
the hot pwb layout area to find out the latest stuff. do travel
for this experience.  doug brusig-primex tech-redmond, wa.

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