Re: [PEDA] PCB Panelization

2002-04-12 Thread Samuel Cox \"Sam\"
FYI, Take a look at the April 2002 issue of Printed Circuit Design Magazine It's focus this month is on Panelization as a means to High-Volume Manufacturing... Sam Cox. At 01:36 PM 4/12/2002 -0300, you wrote: >Thanks to all who helped with this thread. I'm reviewing them and haven't

Re: [PEDA] WANTED: PCB Expert (Off Topic)

2002-04-04 Thread Samuel Cox \"Sam\"
Jason, You indicate the "Profile is Optimum" according to Fab. Which I conclude to be, that the layer stack up order is balanced around the center line of the board stack up.. As well , you indicated or implied the copper is equally distributed on each signal pair and internal plane pairs o

Re: [PEDA] PCB West

2002-03-20 Thread Samuel Cox \"Sam\"
Protel DXP Looked better than I expected.. It does not require you to save as a DBase Project.. It has fading floating docable tool bars. it allows VHDL schematic capture.. I was talking to Rick Wilson a great teacher and sale person.. He got me jazzed about it. Sam Cox. Did anyone go to

Re: [PEDA] New Question.. Best Practices...

2002-02-20 Thread Samuel Cox \"Sam\"
Hello everyone.. We have pretty much beaten to death the definition of PWA, PWB, PCA, PCB. Now that we know what we are talking or not talking about.. The question I have is What are the top Ten or twenty(now a days) DFM "Best Practices" process steps, or checks or suggestions you might

Re: [PEDA] Hanging Track

2002-02-01 Thread Samuel Cox \"Sam\"
I believe it is more like hanging " Chads"... That brings back bad memories.. too.. At 11:35 AM 2/1/2002 -0500, you wrote: >Is that like a dangling participle? >Sean James >PCB Designer >Telecast Fiber Systems, Inc. >102 Grove Street >Worcester, MA 01605 >(TEL) 508.754.4858 x33 >(FAX) 413.541.6

Re: [PEDA] Countersunk holes

2002-01-09 Thread Samuel Cox \"Sam\"
Sean, Counter Sink holes are used often for mounting holes for BGA devices.. especially in performance boards.. (DUT) Device Under Test boards where they are mounting a socket that will accept a number of component loads for each chip test.. If you send me your fax number I have a detail draw

Re: [PEDA] .TXT File generation

2001-12-13 Thread Samuel Cox \"Sam\"
Hello,,, Mid is the "geometric center of the spans of all of the pins in a component.. (not the body outline.) Ref is the origin of the component when the component was created in the library.. Pad is Pad1 of the component... Most of the time the component is and I believe should be built wi

Re: [PEDA] Component Rotation

2001-10-24 Thread Samuel Cox \"Sam\"
Steve... 1.) the question should be rephrased to "Symbol Rotation".. not "Component Rotation".. 2.) Why would you want to rotate a symbol in Schematic capture to something other than 90 degrees.? This not standard practice. Also, keep in mind that your pins of the symbol need to end up on a sc

Re: [PEDA] Fw: Fw: THIS SAYS IT ALL!!!!!

2001-10-23 Thread Samuel Cox \"Sam\"
Right On Well put At 12:21 PM 10/23/01 -0700, you wrote: - Original Message - From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ; [EMAIL PROTECTED] ; [EMAIL PROTECTED] ; [EMAIL PROTECTED] ; [EMAIL PROTECTED] ; [EMAIL PROTECTED] ; [EMAIL PROTECTED] ; [EMA

Re: [PEDA] Antwort: True statement?

2001-10-05 Thread Samuel Cox \"Sam\"
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[PEDA] Hello! It is Mechanical NOT "Mechanikal" OK!!

2001-09-14 Thread Samuel Cox \"Sam\"
Maybe you can not get it to work right because you can not spell it right. * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * To post a message: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] * * To leave this list visit: * http://www.techservinc.com/protelusers/leave.html * * Contact the list manager: * ma

[PEDA] Resource for design (inpedance calculator etc.)

2001-08-23 Thread Samuel Cox \"Sam\"
Tim, below are some very valuable resouces, http://www.robertsondne.com/ http://www.ultracad.com/articles.htm http://www.merix.com/resourcecntr/res_intro.html UltraCad as well as Chris Robertson's site have impedance Calculators. Merix has a great DFM manual.. Enjoy Sam Cox *

Re: [PEDA] Warping on small odd layer boards.

2001-08-22 Thread Samuel Cox \"Sam\"
Tim, Take a look athttp://www.merix.com/resourcecntr/apps/balanced_pcbs.htmlit is an article on Balanced board stackup... it will explain it best... Sam Cox... > >> -Original Message- >> From: Tim Hutcheson [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] >> Sent: Wednesday, August 22, 2001 10:53