Chris:

You can contact McGraw-Hill at 1-800-822-8158 and request a catalog of
engineering books which you can choose from.  They have a couple of
catalogs, General Engineering and Electrical Engineering which contain the
titles of books which could help.  I've purchased a couple of books from
them and found them useful.  Printed Circuits Design by Gerald L Ginsberg,
and Design Guidelines For Surface Mount Technology by John E. Traister.
Both of these books are getting old now and they may have some updated
versions.  Also, IPC offers a lot of education materials, videos and
seminars, you might want to check all of the resources available from them.
 You can also learn a lot just by studying the IPC Standards.

Hope this helps.

Dave.




At 12:20 AM 6/24/98 -0400, you wrote:
>I work at a small company outside of Philadelphia Pennsylvania doing
>(among many other things) PCB Design. My extent of education in this
>is the few boards that I have done in the past year or two, along with
>reading a few IPC documents and PC Design magazine. Most of this shows
>me that there still is a lot that I don't know. Some of it I don't
>particularly need to know for my job... (My company makes Digital EEG
>machines. The highest frequencies that I have had to deal with is
>Video Frequencies (with clocks for the logic only going about 16MHz).)
>As such I don't know much about the pitfalls and design rules for high
>frequency design. Most of the rules that I use for laying out a board
>for EMC and ESD only deal with the I/O connectors (The rest of the
>board everyone here expects the chassis to shield.)
>
>I also know enough to know that I don't know much.  For example I read
>about designers being concerned about the electrical properties of the
>FR4, but I don't know how these are used, or in what cases they need
>to be considered.
>
>My questions are:
>  1) What are good books to get for self education?
>  2) Does anyone know of any good PC Design classes that are given in
>      the Philly area?
>
>TIA
>
>Pax
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