Greater Phoenix Designers Council Meeting
Tuesday May 11th, 2004
Rigid flex PCB solutions for the PCB designer
Time:
6:00 -- 6:20 PM -- Food and Drink
6:20 -- 6:30 PM -- Introduction and announcements
6:30 -- 8:00 PM -- Presentation
8:00 -- 8:30 PM -- Q&A
!! NOTE NORMAL GDDS MEETING LOCATION !!
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Place:
General Dynamics Decision Systems
8201 E. McDowell Road
Scottsdale, AZ
View Map -
http://dcchapters.ipc.org/phoenix/gpdc/chapter/phxchapter.html
Presentation Description:
Rigid-flex PCB Solutions For The PCB Designer
Shawn's presentation will be tailored to PCB designers using specific
designs as examples of the technology with a concentration on low cost
high speed applications.
Systems Designers and PCB Designers are continuously challenged in
trying to address the packaging problems of putting 10lbs of "stuff"
into a 5lb bag. When more than one PCB is required and the boards must
communicate with each other, we immediately ask ourselves what connector
will we use. If money is no object, then we think of polyimide based
rigid-flex solutions. Most of the time rigid-flex is immediately tossed
aside due to it's high cost, long lead times, unknown design guidelines
or vendor requirements.
If there was a low cost, flexible PCB solution that eliminated
connectors, and was manufactured in a rigid shop using standard
materials, turn-around times, and design guidelines, would you use it?
Good! Now it does exist, and we have produced over 2000 part numbers
using HVRFlex technology.
HVRFlex is a FR-4 based rigid-flex solution that is manufactured in a
rigid shop, uses standard rigid materials, processes, and design
guidelines. It can be delivered in standard lead times at reasonable
cost.
Why You Should Attend:
The presentation will show typical applications and define a
step-by-step manufacturing process that details how FR-4 alone is used
to produce flexible and foldable printed circuit boards that pass
IPC-TM-650 standard with up to 380 flexures. The technology is a low
cost replacement for existing static rigid-flex circuits, and an
enabling technology that allows connectorless stacking solutions.
Current markets include military, aerospace, consumer electronics,
medical, telecom and embedded systems/backplanes.
About the Presenter:
Shawn Arnold
HVRFlex Sales and Business Development
High-Speed-Solutions and Design
Shawn has over twenty years experience in PCB design and is an original
P-CAD V1.2 user since 1984. The last 13 years he has been concentrating
on PCB design for Signal Integrity/EMI and ESD. During that time Shawn
was a PCB designer and consultant, Group Design Mgr for a local EMS, a
Backplane/PCB Market Analyst, PSD(PCB) Sales Bus Dev for Cadence,
Executive Member of PICMG(CompactPCI) with a patent on DigitalOptical
backplanes for PICMG 2.16 and owned a local PCB design Service Bureau
for 6 years.
Please RSVP TO Cyrus no later that Friday May 7th.
Cyrus Ringle CID +
IPC Advanced Certified Interconnect Designer
CAD Engineer
Inter-Tel, Inc. http://www.inter-tel.com <http://www.inter-tel.com/>
7300 W. Boston St.
Chandler, AZ 85226
(480) 961-2263
mailto:[log in to unmask]
President of the Greater Phoenix Designers Council
http://dcchapters.ipc.org/phoenix/
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