In the News of Printed Circuit Board Manufacture and Design
Lead and other Hazardous Materials: RoHS compliance in
Europe required by July 1, 2006
The lead-free movement is well under way in Europe. The new compliance
requirement is called RoHS--Restriction of the Use of Certain Hazardous
Substances (Waste from Electric and Electronic Equipment). These
restrictions are required by the European Council, promulgation of laws
and regulations are the responsibility of the European countries
individually, and implementation is required of manufacturers of
electrical products to be used in Europe.
"The RoHS Directive (Directive 2002/95/EC), which was finalized by the
European Parliament and the Council of the European Union on January
27, 2003, bans the placement of new electrical and electronic equipment
(EEE) containing lead, cadmium, mercury, hexavalent chromium and both
polybrominated biphenyl (PBB) and polybrominated
diphenyl ether (PBDE) flame retardants starting July 1, 2006." [Quoted
from IPC (Association Connecting Electronic Industries) Review,
Vol 45, No. 9 of November 2004 ]
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What's new at Golden Gate Graphics' web site:
Tutorial on GCPrevue Version 13 Begun
We have added a tutorial
for GCPrevue Version 13 on how to make assembly drawings plots from
Gerber files.
Online training site updated August of 2003
An article called "Pieces of Eight" was added, along with a few others.
Updates as of Thursday, January 31, 2008
Direct email links from website replaced with on-line forms
Because of spammers using our email links, we have replaced all email
links with on-line forms. Make your initial contact this way and then
we can communicate via email from that point forward.
Updates as of Friday, July 18, 2003
Guestbook discontinued due to spam
On Friday, July 18, 2003 we discontinued the use of our guestbook, as
it was being used almost entirely by spammers.
Updates as of Monday, June 03, 2002
1 Glossary of PCB Design and Manufacturing
If you refer to the "lining-up" of artwork as "registration" (as many
of our most distinguished fellows do), read this definition and then imagine
what we all must sound like to members of the printing profession.
2 Checking Gerber files with GC-Prevue.
This tutorial has been updated and revised several times. Get
the tutorial now!
Added on Thursday, November 08, 2001
1 What Is a PCB Designer Anyway?
For you recruiters out there who are asked to find one, and for anyone
else interested, this is a plain English description of a Printed Circuit Board Designer
. Hint: It is not the same as an electrical engineer.
Added on Tuesday, August 21, 2001
1. What an Electrical Engineer Wants.
Are you an electrical engineer? Here's an article on what a certain PCB
designer thinks it is that you want. Click here to read it now.
2. Streamlined PCB Design Training Site Updated.
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Added articles on the motto for Streamlined PCB Design:
"How do you know when a job is really done?"
"What an electrical engineer wants." Because we would like feed back
from electrical engineers, we are making that last article available
outside of the training site. Click
here to read it now.
Added on Friday, April 27, 2001
1. How to Use GC-Prevue
Get
the tutorial now! If you are involved in electronics product
development or PCB design and don't already have the freeware program
GC-Prevue, you need it. Here's why: GC-Prevue is the only full-featured
free Gerber and NC Drill file viewer available, which
makes it a great tool for viewing, checking and plotting shared printed
circuit board data over a network. Because it is free, it is available
to anyone in your information stream. If you haven't got it, get it from our "free
stuff" page.
2. Glossary updated.
Our
glossary of printed circuit design and manufacturing has been one
of the most-used features of this web site.
3. Valuable Final Product check lists improved.
See On-Line Training for updated check
lists.
Added on July 26, 2000
Product
development links area added.
Hook up with industry insiders using these links to engineering and
manufacturing related sites.
Added on May 28, 2000:
On-line training pilot project updated.
1. Check lists: Valuable Final Product Qualification
Available for your use and adaptation are checklists for
verifying the quality of your products in CAE and PCB CAD, regardless
of particular software used. The checklists for new designs were just
updated. Among the new additions are checklists for ECO's, or new
revisions of schematics and PCB designs.
The checklists are in RTF (Rich Text Format), so should be
adaptable to a variety of platforms and word processors, and can be
edited by yourselves to match your own particular technologies and
CAE/CAD software.
2. Log sheets
Also added are handy time log and schematic stat (production
statistics) sheets, both in HTML, for doing time studies of your work
and productivity;these can double as your billable-hours logs as
needed.
3. The overall outline for Streamlined PCB Design was
updated.
For one, the Java and non-Java versions now match.
Added on May 1, 2000:
at Industry Community . com
Added on April 6:
On-line training pilot project
launched.
On-Line Training for printed circuit designers: You can participate in
this new site free of charge.
Added on April 4:
A new guestbook. (Removed on Friday, July 18, 2003 due to
spam)
We welcome your comments and suggestions for improving this site.
Please add them for all to see using our guestbook.
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