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Amit Bahl
Amit Bahl, widely recognized as the PCB Guy, earned his Bachelor of Science in Engineering from UCLA. He is currently the Chief Revenue Officer at Sierra Circuits, where he continues to lead efforts to simplify the PCB design journey and support designers and engineers in creating high-quality boards.
Tips on ensuring maximum dependability in your flex PCBs.
Flex PCBs
Flex PCB design requires a slightly different approach than rigid PCBs. While flex PCBs can provide major savings in manufacturing ... more »
Flex PCBs
With standard technology—single lamination, through-hole, two, four, six, and eight-layer boards... a one to three-day turn is fairly routine. But ... more »
PCB Manufacturing
There has been extensive research on the development of low loss materials in the past few decades with embedded optical ... more »
High Speed
Measuring impedance and checking for faults and discontinuities on different points of a PCB trace is not a cakewalk. This ... more »
Controlled Impedance
Sierra's customers already benefit from this type of efficient, intuitive system through our NoTouch PCBs (using our automatic file verification ... more »
PCB Design
A side-by-side comparison of ODB++, Gerbers, and IPC-2581 PCB design formats. While ODB++ and IPC-2581 have recently been revised, and ... more »
PCB Design
Flex PCBs are widely used in medical devices and wearables as they offer some great advantages. The demand for fitness ... more »
PCB Design
Fitness wearables and medical devices have become more popular nowadays. The demand for these devices is expected to increase even ... more »
Flex PCBs
Rigid-flex PCB designs may be expensive to fabricate, but they can essentially save costs during electronic system assembly.
Flex PCBs
Here are a few tips on how to ensure the success of your flex PCB design.
Flex PCBs
To successfully design a flexible PCB, it is important for the designers to have a basic understanding of the flex ... more »
Flex PCBs
Steve Arobio, who directs PCB manufacturing, and Atar Mittal, who directs PCB design and PCB assembly, insisted this column must ... more »
HDI / Blind & Buried Vias
Use these four tips to become a high density interconnect printed circuit board design master.
HDI / Blind & Buried Vias
PCB material selection is the first step in your PCB design process. Selecting the right materials for your design is ... more »
PCB Design
Proper layout design is vital for printed circuit board success, making it essential for designers to understand best practices during ... more »
PCB Design
To make the most of the microelectronics space, companies must ensure they're accommodating microelectronics limitations and their advantages.
Microelectronics & Substrates
Here are three recommendations to help ensure that your first design is a success.
Microelectronics & Substrates
It's important to find the right PCB manufacturer who can serve as an effective partner. This partner should minimize turnaround ... more »
PCB Manufacturing
Several big trends have converged to make the Internet of Things possible, including advances in PCB design.
Flex PCBs
At some level of circuit complexity, turning to an HDI architecture with blind and buried vias will result in better ... more »
HDI / Blind & Buried Vias
Manufacturing is a crucial component PCB designers must keep in mind when constructing printed circuit boards.
PCB Design
When we talked last, Happy not only answered all of my HDI questions, he also included a few tips for ... more »
HDI / Blind & Buried Vias
Implementing HDI at modern levels involved making changes in materials, imaging, assembly, testing, and design. This article examines those changes ... more »
HDI / Blind & Buried Vias
For her MIT master’s thesis in engineering, Michelle Rybak investigated signal loss over frequency of six different PCB laminates, with ... more »
PCB Design
A board design that will be produced in quantity had better take into account how it can be replicated per ... more »
PCB Design
For manufacturers, there’s yet another consideration besides chip load and that’s drill hit count; the sharper the drill, the fewer ... more »
Flex PCBs
Prudent PCB designers used to have good reasons for avoiding trace widths and spaces smaller than 3 mils beyond very ... more »
PCB Design
Progress in electronics may not depend so much on semiconductor advances as it does on a transition to PCB laminates ... more »
High Speed
Physicists explore the fundamental constituents of matter by accelerating subatomic particles to speeds approaching that of light and colliding them ... more »
Case Studies
Yield Drives Profit The first step toward designing a printed circuit board is to identify the least expensive materials that ... more »
HDI / Blind & Buried Vias
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