The Northern Illinois IPC Designers Council will hold a meeting: Date & Time: June 23 at 5:00 p.m. (Wednesday) Location: Caremark Towers 2211 Sanders Road Northbrook, IL (just Behind The IPC Building) Topic Will be: HDI Substrates >Packaging trends driving HDI Substrates >1+n+1 and 2+n+2 Sequential buildup substrates >Microvia formation techniques *Mechanical *Laser ablation (YAG vs Co2) *Photo defined >Design tradeoffs when selecting dielectric materials Basic Transmission Line Properties >Digital signal properties >Signal rise time and harmonic content >Critical length vs rise time >Lumped vs Distributed lines >Return path characteristics Characteristic Impedance >Controlled impedance structures *Microstrip *Stripline *Edge Coupled Differential *Broadside Coupled Differential >Manufacturing considerations and tolerance >Test methods PWB Power Distribution >Supply Impedance vs frequency (PWB) >Decoupling rules >Buried capacitance >Buried Resistors Hosted by Gary Ferrari of IPC, Pat McCauley & Tom Buck of Dynamic Details Inc. Refreshments will be served.. pizza, pop & coffee. Attitional note: Volunteers will be chosen to help plan the next meetings. If you need directions or any other information Contact: Linda Gallo Tellabs 630-978-5729 [log in to unmask] Karl Bates Lucent 630-713-9853 [log in to unmask] Char Dwyer [log in to unmask] directions: to 2211 Sanders Road On the local map, take 294 north to the Willow west exit. Take Willow west to Sanders Road, turn right(north)onto Sanders. Go past Culligan and Donlen (on your right) to Caremark Towers - the next right. The sign will say IPC and other companies as well. You will see two small 5 story buildings in front of you with the fountain separating them, but these are not it. Turn into the complex and immediately turn left to go over to the large 10 story building. Park in the lot and tell the guard that you are here for the Northern IL Designers Council Meeting in conference rooms D & E on the 2nd floor. Go through reception straight to the elevators up to 2. On 2, turn right, and the conference rooms are there on your left. ################################################################ DesignerCouncil E-Mail Forum provided as a free service by IPC using LISTSERV 1.8c ################################################################ To subscribe/unsubscribe, send a message to [log in to unmask] with following text in the body: To subscribe: SUBSCRIBE DesignerCouncil <your full name> To unsubscribe: SIGNOFF DesignerCouncil ################################################################ Please visit IPC's web site (http://www.ipc.org) "On-Line Services" section for additional information. For technical support contact Hugo Scaramuzza at [log in to unmask] or 847-509-9700 ext.312 ################################################################