Re: [PEDA] Layer Stackup Info.

2001-07-10 Thread Mike Reagan
I know what the website says, I also know what my hard earned money says... I just purchased manuals about 2 months ago and had to pay full price.Read my last post again , The IPC will not accept your coupon unless you are full member of the IPC, however they did honor the coupon from

Re: [PEDA] Layer Stackup Info.

2001-07-10 Thread Abd ul-Rahman Lomax
At 07:22 AM 7/10/01 -0400, Mike Reagan wrote: I know what the website says, I also know what my hard earned money says... I just purchased manuals about 2 months ago and had to pay full price.Read my last post again , The IPC will not accept your coupon unless you are full member of the

Re: [PEDA] Layer Stackup Info.

2001-07-10 Thread Ted Tontis
Mike, What standards did you purchase? I believe that if you are a IPC designer council member you can only purchase standards, visit seminars, and use your coupon on subjects related to design. So assembly stuff is out. Abd ul-Rahman, I just attended a IPC cert. course. There

[PEDA] 80 Mil Thick PCB

2001-07-10 Thread Jeff Adolphs
Hello, Thanks for all the information in the Layer Stackup Info. string! Would anyone give me an example of a board stackup (4 layer) for a 80 mil thick PCB and a 62 mil thick PCB? I don't have the IPC standard for prepreg. The PCB is specified as 80 mil for mechanical reasons only. The PCB

Re: [PEDA] Layer Stackup Info.

2001-07-10 Thread Mike Reagan
it was all the latest 2141, controlled Z, 6011 generic standards, 6012 and several other design standards. Maybe I got snuckered, Like I mentioned they honored it last year but not this year. I will bring it up at the next IPC meeting and see if anyone else had the same problem Mike -

Re: [PEDA] Layer Stackup Info.

2001-07-10 Thread Mark E Witherite

Re: [PEDA] Layer Stackup Info.

2001-07-10 Thread Brad Velander
Ted or Mark, I hope you realize that those figure will be approx. averages for differing materials of the general construction type. Don't rely on those figures too heavily because individual constructions, resins and weaves could vary those figures significantly (at least 10 - 15%,

[PEDA] perimeter stitched ground vias question

2001-07-10 Thread Mamdouh Wahab
Greetings all, I am contemplating adding a stitched perimeter of grounded vias on my board outline to reduce generating noise and EMI. My board is an embedded microcontroller application that runs at 33 MHz . -Is this technique effective in reducing generated noise? -Is there an easy way

Re: [PEDA] perimeter stitched ground vias question. Can you help here Abd ul-Rahman?

2001-07-10 Thread Brad Velander
Mamdouh, after reading your question I believe that you may be under some misconceptions. It seems that you are talking about stitching vias around the perimeter of the PCB only. If this is the case you will see very little reduction of radiated emissions or susceptibility to

[PEDA] Silver Immersion Finish

2001-07-10 Thread Colin Weber
Folks, Can anyone help me with specifications for Silver Immersion finish? I have been encouraged to move from Gold Immersion to Silver, but I am unsure as to how best specify it and what issues are involved. I am requesting information from our PCB manufacturers, but look forward to feedback

Re: [PEDA] Silver Immersion Finish

2001-07-10 Thread Brad Velander
Colin, I was following a similar path several months ago and it came to an abrupt end when the manufacturers of the processes stopped returning my calls or forwarding information. I had three vendors who wanted to use the immersion silver on our boards but I couldn't get suitable

Re: [PEDA] perimeter stitched ground vias question.

2001-07-10 Thread Graeme Zimmer
Couldn't find the other book I was looking for, Abd ul-Rahman, what was the title of your favorite book? The one that has voodoo, black magic or something like that in the title. High Speed Digital Design: A Handbook of Black Magic by Howard W., Ph.D. Johnson, Martin,

Re: [PEDA] Silver Immersion Finish

2001-07-10 Thread Colin Weber
Brad, No I haven't tried any OSPs. We have been using Gold Immersion and HASL only. Any sources I find will largely be in Australia as I work there. However, we have a division in Tempe which have access to the Silver technology. If I can find out more I'll let you know. At 05:05 PM

Re: [PEDA] Off topic / Need formula to calculate F in Mhz Wave length.

2001-07-10 Thread Darren Moore
Brian, wave length = 300/freq (Mhz) Darren -Original Message- From: Brian Guralnick [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Wednesday, 11 July 2001 14:29 To: Protel EDA Forum Subject: [PEDA] Off topic / Need formula to calculate F in Mhz Wave length. Hi all,

Re: [PEDA] Off topic / Need formula to calculate F in Mhz Wave length.

2001-07-10 Thread Thomas
This is fine for free space, but if you're trying to calculate the wavelength in something like coax you have to take into account the change in velocity: Wave Lenght (in meters) = (VF.c)/f Where VF = velocity factor (about 0.6 for RG59) c = speed of light in vacuum in m/s