Ausgabe 05/2002

Design

Altra Broadband moves on xDSM Transceiver Boards for Broadband Network 

Biggest Event of the Year for Designers in the USA 

The SMS boom rolls on – and should continue at least till 2005 

First Results from the FED/VdL Questionnaire on PCB’s with defined impedance 

Valor & Syncron Technologies move into automated generation of interconnection pads of components 

DRC: Fundamental Design Rules for CAD, CAM and PCB’s New FED Seminar for those working in CAD & CAM. 

 

New design Tools from Ansoft 

Plenty of Action at Innoveda: A Complete New Design System for High-Speed PCB’s and Change of Management 

Mentor Graphics extends its product range for the cable harness industry 

The FED/VdL Design Project Group – What is its Focus Now ? 

Printed Circuit Board Technologies

Traceability in the PCB Industry 

 

ppe is promoted 

“Made in China”-PCB’s: Ready for HDI Evolution CPCA 2002 Show in Shanghai 

LPKF beefs up for the Future 

Consolidation of Substrate Materials for GHz Scale Use 

PCB Group Projects in the Lower Rhine Area VDI/VDE Committee on PCB production at Messrs Lackwerk Peters 

 

Substrate for Microvia Drilled Layers in HDI PCB’s 
(J. Willuweit) 

ERNI acquires license for Optical Backplanes from Daimler-Chrysler 

PPS WDSOFT-WIN is ready for market launch 

Reworking of PCB’s can pay off 

Peripheral Systems for Today’s Technology – Ready for Tomorrow’s Atotech introduces its peripheral Simatic ET 200S system into plating lines 

 

Packaging / Hybrid Technology

Bonding of PPS to Aluminium in Automotive Applications 
(St. Kienitz) 

Assembly and Interconnection Technologies for High Density Integration – One for All? German IMAPS Seminar 2002 at FHTE Göppingen 

Flip-Chip & Chip-Scale Europe 2002 – More than a Glimmer of Hope 

Micro-engineering and Sensor Professional Associations Get Together 

After a record year in 2000, ESEC faces up to collapse in Turnover and Heavy Losses in 2001 

Board Assembly Technologies

Upcoming – Preview of SMT/Hybrid/Packaging 2002 

Kwikboard – A Fast Path to Prototypes 

No Small Anniversary - 5th European Electronics technology Colloquium 

Traceability in Board Assembly Industry MES intraFACTORY 

 

In-Line Vacuum Vapour Phase Solder Plants – Are they Essential? 

4th International ESD Workshop 2002 in Dresden 

Automated and selective conformal coating of populated PCB’s without additional Masking stages 
(G. Schulze) 

ESSEMTEC launches SMD Competence Centre for Short/Medium Runs 

Forum

JUMO: 2001 Better than Previous Year 

Exporting to New Markets: www alone is not enough 
(E. Effenberger) 

A Premiere in Shanghai: electronicChina 

EMV 2002 – Trade Show and Congress for Electromagnetic Compatibility 

Tecnomatix eMPower 6.0 – Increased Power for Production Planners 

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