Articles from Printed Circuit Design & Manufacture (February 1, 2004)

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Title	Author	Type	Words
'One source' fits all: modeled as a "mini Flextronics," this group uses the latest equipment and the engineering practices for its competitive advantage.	Waddell, Pete		1462
1-[micro]m copper foil.			66
5 tips for reducing EMI: even the best high-speed design plans can fail FCC certification.	Bogatin, Eric		798
Aeroflex Inc. (aeroflex.com) signed an exclusive technology licensing and distribution agreement with Navigation Laboratories.			30
Altium does China.			52
Artesyn Technologies (artesyn.com) will use Tecnomatix Technologies'.			19
Artwork inspection.			45
BGA land pattern and assembly issues: while saving plenty in board real estate, BGAs and chip-scale packages carry host of other considerations, from coplanarity to rework reliability.	Chen, Alex	Cover Story	2105
Broken locks.	Buetow, Mike		128
Built for speed: think cost is king? When it comes to quickturn work, designers value reliability and relationships over the almighty dollar.	Buetow, Mike		1711
Caveat emptor redux: labor shortages are popping up. Unfortunately, there's never a shortage on scams.	Daywalt, Ted		747
Cellphones, PCs push IC sales.			97
Cimmetry adds formats to markup tool.	Buetow, Mike		155
Competition needs moderating.	Haman, John	Letter to the Editor	298
Correction.		Correction Notice	17
Cover concerns.	Meeker, Nick	Letter to the Editor	227
Differential signals routing requirements: for noise immunity, complementary transmitted signals need to be well balanced and trace impedances symmetrical.	Riazi, Abe		894
EDA Q3 growth 1% sequentially.	Buetow, Mike		257
Electropac Ltd. (electropac.com), in St. Catharines, Ontario, installed a Microcraft moving probe tester.			33
EMA goes 'DownStream.'.			38
Embedded passive patents.	Dudnikov, George	Letter to the Editor	925
Embedded passives material standard readied.			369
Events.		Calendar	211
FEM CAE.			55
Firan Technology Group (firantechnology.com) purchased a 28-panel gas plasma treatment system.			20
Fuba Printed Circuits and Cimnet Systems (cim-sys.com) signed a multi-million euro deal covering IT and software.			29
GSI, Westwind merge.			104
Halogen-free laminate.			45
Handheld optometer.			60
HMS Hollmuller (hms.ag) sold a COMPLATER pulse/direct current plating line to Unimicron (unimicron.com).			30
Homes going digital.			68
How to spend $36m.			110
Industry market snapshot.			67
Innovex.			26
IPS snags fab, plans Asian entry.			149
Kendrick to run Nelco Products.			59
Labtech (labtechcircuits.com) and Pioneer Circuits (pioneercircuits.com) signed a cross-selling deal.			30
Legacy Electronics.			35
Lockheed-Martin (lockheed.com) has installed a Shipley (shipley.com) vacuum applicator.			17
Mabbett & Associates Inc.			21
MacDermid divests stake in Eurocir.			148
Manufacturing orders at 53-year high.			278
March Plasma Systems.			35
Milestones in horizontal plating: a brief look at the history of the technology reveals Asia as the willing innovator.	Huang, Andy		1201
NEMI newbies.			21
Park Nelco.			48
PCB constraints checker.			72
PLM JV forms.			49
Power dissipation measurer.			60
Primed in Korea: outlooks for major South Korean PCB makers.			44
Printed Circuit Board Basics 4th Edition.	Friedman, Fred		265
Scaling artwork basics: registration errors can be overcome by having precise, targeted, real-time data.	Paur, Tom R.		530
Shea no more.			30
Sinking their teeth.			26
Solectron Corp.			25
Storage the story.			198
Survey: IEEE members pass $100k salary mark.	Buetow, Mike		287
Telematics, handsets to ring up gains in 2004.			121
The 3 C's: let's not give away our most precious resource: time.	Bigelow, Peter		910
The big picture of HWPA: we continue our look at hole-wall pullaway, focusing this time on desmearing and deposition.	Carano, Michael		1110
The roller coaster of cyclicality: want to see the future? Start by using 12/12 rate of growth curves.	Tyler, Roger		3314
The search for the universal surface finish: an evaluation of the advantages--and limitations--of common surface finishes.	Barbetta, Mike		2102
Tin men.			121
Titan General Holdings.			20
Updated markup tool.			45
Via filling processes.			43
When to embed: advice on factors to consider and questions to ask before layout.	Snorgen, Richard		746
Where has all the equipment gone? Companies in search of the nuts-and-bolts machines are finding availability is scarce.	Beaulieu, Dan		905
Why I hate my desk.	Buetow, Mike		606