Meeting Announcement: IPC-SVC on Nov. 11 in San Jose The IPC Designers Councils' Silicon Valley Chapter will be meeting on Tuesday, November 11 at Mentor Graphics in San Jose (1001 Ridder Park Drive). Time: 11:30AM - 1:30PM $1 for members; $5 for non-members RSVP required > send to SV_IPC@xxxxxxxxx DOOR PRIZE: $25 IPC Publication Certificate Topic: Advanced Placement Techniques, a key to success Speaker: Patrick Jabbaz Patrick Jabbaz is a Sr. Circuit Board Layout Engineer with InkraNetworks (California). Patrick Holds a Degree in Electrical Engineering has been designing Printed Circuit Boards for the past 12 years. He is a current board member of the Silicon Valley IPC Designer's Council and past board member of the Houston IPC Designer's Council and has received his IPC Designers Certification. Objective: To give an insight depth on all aspect of Component placement Topics covered 1- Overview of Placement Strategy Identified the fixed component locations as well as Mechanical keep-outs 2- The technology involved Is this RF or Digital, or Both, are thermal issues a concerned? 3- Types of products Is it small form factor, a PC-card, or a huge Telco board? 4- Quick evaluation Place the key parts, and feel how the rest just falls into place 5- 3 quick ways to Setup the signal flow Having a look at the rats-nets, flow of signal routing channels and the board layer count. 6- Thermal considerations Create air flow channels, analyze hot spots 7- Ready for routing Power delivery checked, analyzed routing channels, Fan-out's, RF sections fixed and approved, timing rules met. RSVP REQUIRED! http://dcchapters.ipc.org/svc/ ------------------------------------------------------------------ To unsubscribe from si-list: si-list-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx with 'unsubscribe' in the Subject field or to administer your membership from a web page, go to: //www.freelists.org/webpage/si-list For help: si-list-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx with 'help' in the Subject field List archives are viewable at: //www.freelists.org/archives/si-list or at our remote archives: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/si-list/messages Old (prior to June 6, 2001) list archives are viewable at: http://www.qsl.net/wb6tpu