MAKING
CONNECTIONS
The UK’s only dedicated PCB design,
manufacture and test event returns next
month. By Neil Tyler
Next month sees the return of
PCB Design & Manufacturing
Live connecting you with
some of the UK’s leading suppliers.
PCB Live brings together PCB design
consultancies and electronics
manufacturers to solve problems and
streamline PCB design and production
costs.
Many exhibitors will be launching
brand new products and you’ll be
amongst the rst to discover them and
what they can do for your projects.
PCB Live will provide interactive
demonstrations of processors,
memories, enclosures, connectors,
power products and much more and
it will provide attendees with the
opportunity to learn and understand
how to best apply new techniques,
products and technologies/processes
that will improve their own PCB related
activities.
The event is compact by design
and opens early at 8:30am. So, you
can get there, get in, get around, get
the PCB answers and solutions you
were looking for and get back to work
with the minimum time and fuss.
Crucially, everything is free - free to
attend, free parking right outside the
hall, free Wi-Fi and free refreshments.
Located at the British Motor
Museum you’ll also have the chance
to explore Britain’s motoring heritage
at rst hand. All visitors will gain free
entry and with almost 300 classic cars
on display it provides an exhilarating
close-up view of the cars that were
at the heart of the UK’s automotive
industry.
Among the exhibitors at this year’s
Future Facilities, which
show are:
will be revealing the company’s latest
release of its renowned 6SigmaET
simulation software and will explain
what this signi cant new thermal
simulation software can do in the
eld of temperature prediction for
electronics applications.
Golledge Electronics
Electronics will
be showing the GSX-113,
an innovative addition to the
company’s expanding range of
fundamental mode crystals. What
makes this one special is its size:
available in an ultra-miniature 1.2
x 1.0 x 0.3mm 1210 form factor
package, and in frequencies from 32
~ 80MHz.
The GSX-113 is intended for
wireless communication applications,
including tight board stacking and
miniature devices. The company
says that the ESR characteristics of
the GSX-113 have also been kept to
exceptionally low levels in line with the
latest chipset industry demands.
Samples of the GSX-113 – as
well as many other leading Golledge
products – will be available to view on
the company’s stand.
Hitaltech offers both exible and
rigid interconnect systems, as well as
other related products including wireto
board connectors and enclosures
rated to IP65. Of especial interest to
PCB designers and manufacturers
visiting the PCB Live Exhibition will be
the company’s range of at, exible
interconnect cables for use where
vibration can be a challenge. These
can either be soldered direct to board
at each end, or alternatively, they can
be supplied with connectors located
on either one or both ends.
Following the assembly process of
smartphone displays, it is important
for manufacturers to be able to
inspect the mounting tolerances of
the various components to ensure
continuous quality in all production
batches. To help them achieve this,
confocal chromatic sensors from PCB
Live exhibitor Micro Epsilon travel
over the components and inspect
the required gaps with extremely high
accuracy.
Almost all industries and in
particular, the semiconductor, micro
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