Polar Talks Impedance and Insertion Loss Testing

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Product Specialists Michael Bode and Geoffrey Hazlett join Guest Editor Dan Feinberg to talk about the company and its products and solutions. They also talked about some of the technologies being enabled by the company, including controlled impedance and insertion loss testing.

Watch the interview here.

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One of the best tools we have for keeping our fingers on the pulse of the industry is the reader survey. When we want to find out what’s going on, we just ask. Fortunately, our readers are not a shy bunch of folks. They don’t mind sharing—the good, the bad, and the ugly. In a recent survey, we asked our PCB designer readers, “What missing information or data (impedance requirements, library data, etc.) do you find yourself having to ‘design around’?”

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