Schedule at a Glance

PCB West is the leading technical conference and trade show for electronics designers, design engineers, fabricators, and assemblers. See you in Santa Clara, California September 19 – 22, 2023!

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9:00 a.m. to 10:00 a.m.
PCEA Annual Meeting
Stephen Chavez, Siemens
10:00 a.m. to 12:00 p.m.
1. Principles of Building a PCB Stackup
Susy Webb, Design Science
10:00 a.m. to 12:00 p.m.
2. Improving Circuit Design and Layout for Accessibility and Success
Tomas Chester, Chester Electronic Designs
10:00 a.m. to 12:00 p.m.
3. Avoiding PCB Respins, Reducing Cost and Time to Market
Syed Ubaid Ali Warsi, Wavetroniks
10:00 a.m. to 12:00 p.m.
4. Mixed Signal Noise Sources and Solutions
Keven Coates, Fluidity Technologies
10:00 a.m. to 12:00 p.m.
5. Benefits of Signal and Power Simulations for PCB DDR Traces

Ramon Angelo Martin Lardizabal, Analog Devices
10:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m.
6. Power Delivery System (PDS) Design
Lee Ritchey, Speeding Edge
10:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m.
7. Sintered Vias for HDI PCB Design
Sean Ernest Clyde Nodado, Analog Devices
12:00 p.m. to 1:00 p.m.
Free Lunch-and-Learn for Conference Registrants
 
1:30 p.m. to 3:30 p.m.
8. PCB DfM (A Comedy Routine Depicting a Typical Dialogue between a PCB Designer and Fabricator)
Stephen Chavez, Siemens, and Gerry Partida, Summit Interconnect
1:30 p.m. to 3:30 p.m.
9. Ask the Flexperts with Lessons Learned
Mark Finstad, Flexible Circuit Technologies, and Nick Koop, TTM Technologies
1:30 p.m. to 5:00 p.m.
10. Signal Integrity in Thin PCB Materials
Zachariah Peterson, Northwest Engineering Solutions
1:30 p.m. to 5:00 p.m.
11. Parts Placement Choices and Consequences
Susy Webb, Design Science
1:30 p.m. to 5:00 p.m.
12. Circuit Grounding to Control Noise and EMI
Rick Hartley, RHartley Enterprises
1:30 p.m. to 5:00 p.m.
13. PCB Design for High Reliability
Paul Cooke, Ventec
3:30 p.m. to 5:30 p.m.
14. Design with the End in Mind: Using System Level Simulation to Reduce PCB Field Failures
Harry Kennedy Jr., Altair

 

10:00 a.m. to 12:00 p.m.
15. Heat Management Strategies through Better Layout
Syed Ubaid Ali Warsi, Wavetroniks
10:00 a.m. to 12:00 p.m.
16. What to Do When Everything Goes Wrong
Ryan Roberts, Wavetronix
10:00 a.m. to 12:00 p.m.
17. Cables and Connectors: Design for Signal Integrity (Will They Work?) and EMI
Keven Coates, Fluidity Technologies
10:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m.
18. Getting to 56 Gb/s
Lee Ritchey, Speeding Edge
11:00 a.m. to 12:00 p.m.
F4. Keynote
 
12:00 p.m. to 1:00 p.m.
Free Lunch on Show Floor, Sponsored by Sierra Circuits
 
1:30 p.m. to 3:30 p.m.
19. From DC to AC – Power Integrity and Decoupling Primer for PCB Designers, Situation Today and Outlook for the Future
Ralf Bruening, Zuken
1:30 p.m. to 3:30 p.m.
20. Avoiding Assembly Pitfalls- My DFA Lessons Learned on Small PCB Runs
Keven Coates, Fluidity Technologies
1:30 p.m. to 5:00 p.m.
21. Signals Flowing through a PCB
Susy Webb, Design Science
 
 
5:00 p.m. to 6:00 p.m.
Evening Reception on Show Floor
 
9:00 a.m. to 10:00 a.m.
F1. Novel Embedded Trace Technology
Laurent Nicolet, Schmid Systems
9:00 a.m. to 10:00 a.m.
F2. Panel: Next-Generation Engineers
Moderator: Phil Marcoux, Score.org
10:00 a.m. to 11:00 a.m.
F3. PCB & AI – Predicting the Future by Understanding the Past
Henry Potts, Vyzor Analytics Solutions
11:00 a.m. to 12:00 p.m.
F4. Keynote
 
12:00 p.m. to 1:00 p.m.
Free Lunch on Show Floor, sponsored by Sierra Circuits
1:30 p.m. to 2:30 p.m.
F5. Reverse Engineering PCBs: How to Recreate a Lost Design
Ethan Pierce, Pierce Design
2:30 p.m. to 3:30 p.m.
F6. Panel: AI in Electronics: What Can We Expect?
 
Panelists:
  • Tomide Adesanmi, Circuit Mind
  • Michael Jackson, Ph.D., Cadence
  • Kyle Miller, Ph.D., Zuken
  • Henry Potts, Vyzor Analytics Solutions
  • Sebastian Schaal, Luminovo
3:30 p.m. to 4:30 p.m.
F7. Ultra-High Density Interconnects – A New Horizon for North American Manufacturing
John Johnson, American Standard Circuits
5:00 p.m. to 6:00 p.m.
Evening Reception on Show Floor
 
10:00 a.m. to 11:00 a.m.
23. Controlling the Waves: A Field-based Perspective on High-speed PCB Design
Daniel Beeker, NXP Semiconductor
10:00 a.m. to 12:00 p.m.
24. PCB Layout of Switch Mode Power Supplies
Rick Hartley, RHartley Enterprises
10:00 a.m. to 6:00 p.m.
25. PCB Antennas Augmented
Ben Jordan, JordanDSP
10:00 a.m. to 6:00 p.m.
26. Stackups: The Design Within the Design
Bill Hargin, Z-zero
10:00 a.m. to 6:00 p.m.
27. How PCB Design Requirements Affect Fabrication
Paul Cooke, Ventec
10:00 a.m. to 6:00 p.m.
28. A Walk-Through of Practical Embedded System Design
Christopher Young, Young Engineering Services
10:00 a.m. to 6:00 p.m.
29. PCB Design for Engineers
Susy Webb, Design Science
11:00 a.m. to 12:00 p.m.
30. HDI Via Design: Planning the Energy Pipelines
Daniel Beeker, NXP Semiconductor
12:00 p.m. to 1:00 p.m.
Free Lunch-and-Learn for Conference Registrants
 
1:30 p.m. to 3:30 p.m.
31. The Mechanical Side of PCBs
Tomas Chester, Chester Electronic Design
1:30 p.m. to 5:00 p.m.
32. PC Board Design for Power Distribution and Decoupling
Rick Hartley, RHartley Enterprises
3:30 p.m. to 5:30 p.m.
33. Differential Pair Design Masterclass
Zachariah Peterson, Northwest Engineering Solutions LLC
10:00 a.m. to 12:00 p.m.
34. Proper PC Board Layout of DDR2, 3, 4 & 5
Rick Hartley, RHartley Enterprises
10:00 a.m. to 12:00 p.m.
35. PCB Design Best Practices
Stephen Chavez, Siemens
10:00 a.m. to 12:00 p.m.
36. The Mystery of Bypass Capacitors
Keven Coates, Fluidity Technologies
10:00 a.m. to 12:00 p.m.
37. Novel Power Distribution System Design
Daniel Beeker, NXP Semiconductor
12:00 p.m. to 1:00 p.m.
 Free Lunch-and-Learn for Conference Registrants
 
1:30 p.m. to 5:00 p.m.
38. RF and Mixed Signal PCB Design
Rick Hartley, RHartley Enterprises
1:30 p.m. to 5:00 p.m.
39. Feeding the Beast: Consumption-based PCB Design
Daniel Beeker, NXP Semiconductor
1:30 p.m. to 5:00 p.m.
40. Grid Systems and Routing Channels May Make Complex Boards Possible
Susy Webb, Design Science
1:30 p.m. to 5:00 p.m.
41. Heat Management for SMD, LED, and Systems 1W to 50W
Keven Coates, Fluidity Technologies