Advanced Design Concepts

The course will start with design of HDI and advanced packaging concepts. This will be followed by embedded component design and the students will see how concepts from HDI are used in the implementation of embedded components. Next, concepts necessary for the design of wearable electronics and how the use of concepts from HDI and Embedded are necessary to achieve the small size and light weight of wearable electronics. 

The course covers the skills necessary to create IPC-compliant PCB designs with:

  • Advanced or complex packaging
  • Reduced available board area
  • Non-orthogonal placement and routing
  • Non-standard board outline geometry
  • Non-standard board mounting
  • Advanced board materials
  • Embedded components
  • Cavities to reduce overall volume/skyline of the design
  • Human interface/wearable technology

Advanced Design Concepts is accredited by the ANSI National Accreditation Board under ANSI/ASTM E2659-18, Standard Practice for Certificate Programs.

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Member Price
$2,000.00
Non-member Price
$2,500.00
Access
90 Days From Enrollment
Class Schedule

  • Course Level: Advanced

  • Training Time

    8 weeks (14 two-hour online instructor-led sessions)

  • Certificate of Completion

  • Seasonal Enrollment

    Access for 90 Days

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All virtual class sessions are recorded for review.

WEEK 1 – HDI DESIGN
Topics include:
•    HDI 
•    Micro-Vias
•    Sequential Lamination
•    Non-std geometry
•    COB/COF
•    Circuit Reduction / Compression
•    IPC Standards

WEEK 2 – EMBEDDED COMPONENT DESIGN
Topics include:
•    Embedded components
•    Formed passives
•    Inserted passives
•    Cavities
•    IPC Standards

WEEK 3 – WEARABLES DESIGN / SIGNAL INTEGRITY
Topics include:
•    Wearables
•    HID (Human Interface Design)
•    Non-std geometry
•    Weight
•    Size
•    Thermal
•    Rise time / fall time
•    SI
•    PDN
•    EM wave
•    Cross talk
•    Overshoot / undershoot
•    Transmission lines
•    IPC standards

WEEK 4 – MATERIALS 
Topics include: 
•    Standard board materials
•    Embedded passive materials
•    HDI materials
•    Solder mask
•    Legend ink
•    Solder
•    Solder flux
•    Solder paste
•    Conformal coating
•    IPC standards 

WEEK 5 – MANUFACTURING 
Topics include:
•    Standard multilayer fabrication    
•    Sequential lamination fabrication
•    Embedded passive fabrication
•    Cavity fabrication
•    Conductive adhesives 
•    Standard Assembly techniques
•    CSP assembly
•    Cavity assembly
•    Wearable assembly

WEEK 6 – DOCUMENTATION WEEK 1
Topics include:
o    Schematics
o    Standard fabrication drawings
o    Fabrication drawings for embedded passives
o    Fabrication drawings for HDI designs
o    IPC standards

WEEK 7 – DOCUMENTATION WEEK 2
Topics include:
o    Standard assembly drawings
o    Assembly drawings for embedded passives
o    Assembly drawings for HDI designs
o    Manufacturing files
o    Gerber
o    Nc drill
o    Netlist
o    ODB++
o    2581
o    Pick and place
o    IPC standards

WEEK 8 – CONTENT REVIEW AND FINAL EXAM
•    Complete final exam during Session 2 or a defined exam time during the last week of the course.
 

 

This course is ideal for designers, engineers, technicians, and other individuals who want to acquire or increase their ability to meet the design, manufacturing, packaging, and routing challenges posed by smaller and smaller boards

IPC offers different instructional modalities to suit participants with different needs and preferences. This program is only available in the following modality:

Online-instructor-led: Participants go online to meet with an IPC-certified industry expert at a fixed time twice per week for the duration of the course. Class sessions are usually 1.5 to 2 hours. Participants can also access a video recording of each class session on their IPC EDGE course dashboard.

IPC strongly recommends that students either complete the IPC Introduction to PCB Design I & II courses or possess a solid foundation in electrical theory, be able to use PCB design software, and have familiarity with:

  • Schematic symbol creation 
  • Schematic generation 
  • Documentation and dimensioning 
  • Standard rigid printed board design 
  • Printed board manufacturing 
  • Printed board assembly 
  • Basics of signal integrity 

Completion of the program with a score of 80% or higher on the final exam and/or final project is required to earn a certificate of completion and 32 Professional Development Hours (PDHs)

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