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Recorded conversations and interviews on electronics design and manufacturing with the editors of PCD&F/Circuits Assembly, brought to you by the Printed Circuit Engineering Association (PCEA)

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The High Density Packaging User Group recently released its Annual Progress Report. In this episode, Marketing Director Madan Jagernauth discusses the group's R&D activities over the past year, as well as the challenges facing designers and manufactu... more

Adhesive failures can be frustrating because the problem isn’t always obvious. The adhesive may have been properly selected, the part may look clean, and the process may seem under control. But weeks or months later, a coating lifts, an encapsulant s... more

Thermal management is a “hot” topic right now, and with today’s rising power densities, thermal issues are moving into more mainstream PCB designs. If you’ve ever wondered whether you could squeeze another heat sink onto your board, you won’t want to... more

Tom Kastner is the founder of GP Ventures, a company that provides M&A advisory services. He's been involved in PCB industry mergers and acquisitions for decades, and he's written extensively about M&A challenges and opportunities.

In this episode o... more

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Recent Guests

Madan Jagernauth
Representative, HDP User Group
HDP User Group
Episode: PCB Chat 162: HDP User Group Annual Update With Madan Jagernauth
Chris Parker
Senior Applications Engineer
Tclad Inc.
Episode: PCB Chat 161: Chris Parker Discusses Case Study on Dielectrics and Thermal Management
Tom Kastner
President of GP Ventures, M&A advisor in the PCB/EMS space
GP Ventures
Episode: PCB Chat 160: Tom Kastner on M&A Trends and Global Manufacturing Challenges
AJ Cooper
CEO and co-founder of Itera; keynote speaker for PCB West
Itera
Episode: PCB Chat 159: AJ Cooper and Itera Aim to Retire the Respin
Nishith Kumar Reddy Gorla
Researcher focused on system-level reliability testing, field reliability alignment, reliability growth, and test-to-field correlation
Core Its Llc
Episode: RM 197: Closing the Gap Between Validation and Reality
Dr. James Maisiri
AI researcher and writer focused on responsible AI and societal impact
Independent researcher / University of Johannesburg (mentioned)
Episode: RM 196: Dr. James Maisiri on Responsible Technology Adoption
CJ Clark
Co-founder of Tomachie, AI-driven schematic analysis platform
Tomachie
Episode: PCB Chat 157: Tomachie's CJ Clark Discusses AI-driven Schematic and Test Analysis
Mehdi Nahali
Founder of PCB Revision Control PRO
PCB Revision Control PRO
Episode: RM 192: Why PCB Revision Errors Are a Hidden Reliability Risk
Lauren Waslick
PCB Design Director at Newgrange Design
Newgrange Design
Episode: PCB Chat 156: Lauren Waslick and Kristen Aguiar of Newgrange Design

Hosts

Andy Shaughnessy
Content Architect with Printed Circuit Engineering Association; long-time editor/host focusing on PCB design, EMC, and industry education
Mike Konrad
Host of Reliability Matters; prolific host covering reliability, manufacturing, and AI in electronics
CJ Clark
Co-founder of Tomachie, AI-driven schematic analysis platform; guest with AI design expertise

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PCB Chat 161: Chris Parker Discusses Case Study on Dielectrics and Thermal Management
Q: What does it mean to flip the hierarchy to substrate first?
It means solving the dominant thermal resistance at the material level first; once the dielectric is high-conductivity, downstream cooling and copper-based strategies become simpler, enabling higher density and better reliability without sweeping redesigns.
PCB Chat 161: Chris Parker Discusses Case Study on Dielectrics and Thermal Management
Q: What happened when you tested surface-mount thermal bridges across the two dielectrics?
On FR-4, adding bridges gave about 13-14 degrees of additional reduction, roughly five degrees per bridge, while on SFL-12 the same bridges added only two to three degrees, showing the dielectric's dominant role in the baseline behavior.
PCB Chat 161: Chris Parker Discusses Case Study on Dielectrics and Thermal Management
Q: Chris, walk me through the study at Rochester Institute of Technology and how it was set up.
We built two identical six-layer boards with the same copper weight and layout, changing only the dielectric from FR-4 to the high-conductivity SFL-12, and used calibrated FLIR imaging and thermocouples to capture both transient and steady-state data, ensuring a clean apples-to-apples comparison.
PCB Chat 159: AJ Cooper and Itera Aim to Retire the Respin
Q: What is the service model and how does it fit into a customer's workflow?
Itera offers an electronics manufacturing service that drops into the customer's existing workflow without forcing a change in EDA tools or PLM; customers send files to a quick-turn supplier, and Itera handles the substrates and assembly in a secure testing center with remote access for ongoing design changes.
PCB Chat 159: AJ Cooper and Itera Aim to Retire the Respin
Q: Right. How does it work?
It uses electro-wetting to move droplets of liquid metal on a PCB by applying voltage across a dielectric in an electrode array, enabling precise X-Y movement of liquid metal droplets and allowing hardware to be reconfigured with software-like agility.

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