I fully agreed to what Mark and Khaled have mentioned. Although, I no longer personally hand-on the
designs, I am leading a group of layout designers and it is still important for me to continue to acquire
knowledge in this area. When I start off, there is no such things as training and I learned through trials
and errors and lots of hard works on my part by reading ! In Singapore, we do not have such great blessing
and opportunities found in States whereby you have all the experts giving workshops/seminars/tutorials that
are related to layout design.

What we have here are the annual exibitions but no such training course except for the PCB Asia'97 held
last Dec 97. I attended this and have never look back since. It is a great course even though I spent the 3
full days from 8.30am to as late as 6.30pm for the last day, attending all the tutorials, workshops,
semniars that I can squeeze my time in. From my experience, attend whatever courses available.

Regards.



Markosky, Jason wrote:

> Howdy,
>
> I am relatively new to the designing of circuit boards so please bear
> with me and my petty questions.  The company I work for has been in the
> business of designing its own circuit boards for several years now. I
> have found out that past designers had no formal training in the
> processes of designing of the boards.  What I am trying to say is
> previous designers had vast knowledge in the way the designed
> theoretically worked but, when it came to the layout of the board and
> where components were  placed became a  random process throughout the
> area of the board. There was some knowledge of where to put certain
> devices, but the designer  seemed more interested in aesthetics of the
> board rather than proper function.  What I am looking for is some rules,
> tips, and any information that will help me improve old and future
> designs.  Also, I have been given the task of converting old designs
> with regular components on them to an all surface mount design.  Again,
> if anyone has any tips or past experience I would greatly appreciate it.
>
> THANKS FOR ALL THE HELP!!!
>
> JASON MARKOSKY
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