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I-Connect007 Editor’s Choice: Five Must-Reads for the Week
April 18, 2025 | Andy Shaughnessy, Design007 Magazine

It’s been a busy week in our industry. Never a dull moment! If you’ve been paying attention to our tariff tumult with China and its effect on the stock market, especially if your company does a lot of business with China, you might be tempted to call in a Xanax refill about now. But hang tight. This is still early in the first quarter. This brouhaha serves to underscore our need to manufacture critical laminates and components in the U.S. In this week’s must-reads, we have a potpourri of articles covering tariffs, the next generation of HDI, the three-year anniversary of IPC Mexico, a novel green technology, and emerging design trends.
Connect the Dots: Involving Manufacturers Earlier Prevents Downstream Issues
April 17, 2025 | Matt Stevenson, Connect the Dots

If you have read any of my earlier columns, you know I am passionate about helping designers design for the reality of manufacturing. Designing for manufacturability (DFM) is a team sport. DFM is a design process that looks forward to the manufacturing process and integrates with it so that manufacturing requirements and capabilities can be accurately reflected in the design work.
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Designers Notebook: Layer Stackup Planning for RF Circuit Boards
April 17, 2025 | Vern Solberg, Designer's Notebook
When designing multiple layer circuits requiring impedance control, the circuit board designer will work closely with an engineering specialist cognizant of RF printed circuit board design and layout, including mixed-signal...
The Shaughnessy Report: Always With the Negative Waves
April 9, 2025 | Andy Shaughnessy, The Shaughnessy Report
When I started covering PCB design in the ‘90s, RF designers comprised a small percentage of the design community. Other than cellphones and handheld GPS devices, RF wasn’t seen very often outside of military, aerospace, and law...
Global PCB Connections: A Field Engineer’s Perspective on the Top 10 Trends to Watch
March 27, 2025 | Jerome Larez, Global PCB Connections
As a field application engineer for a major Chinese PCB company, I see firsthand the challenges and, more excitingly, the trends shaping our industry. Talking to engineers, designers, and procurement teams worldwide, one thing is...
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