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Transmission Line Corrupted

Welcome to a very late pcb-update newsletter no. 7.

Why the delay you may ask? Well I do not know if the content of our articles suddenly projected it self to my web carrier. But suddenly there was no transmission from our URL and when I tried to connect, I was told that the site was terminated.

Panic is an understatement. Phone calls were made, emails exchanged, some shouting and cursing and finally all things fell into place, and the transmission line is now restored and our website is up and running again.

Two month have passed and what has happened in the business during that period?

Well according to the World Press we are on a serious decline. But honestly I think this decline is a bit overrated and fuelled by the press. Because the comments I get when talking to business executives, design engineers and production managers in the Scandinavian area, are not as pessimistic as you could expect. The message is, that even the wild forward momentum from early this year is slowing down, and some businesses will be influenced by this fact, it has not and probably will not extend to the level predicted by the press. Some managers even say it is good that the momentum has dropped a bit, because many companies were not geared to deliver at this overheated pace, and the increased workload probably would have taken the lives of many companies too.

This does not mean that the press prediction has no bearing, but it seems that the electronic industry is not so effected by this than other businesses. So let us take a deep breath and see what will happen over Christmas and in the first quarter of 2009, before caving in completely to the doom of the press.

Article of the month

As my transmission line was corrupted I thought it would be reasonable to investigate if we need them at all, and no one would be more capable to explain the benefits of solid transmission lines than SI-guru Doug Brooks of UltraCAD Design Inc. On his website, you will along with other SI related stuff, find this month article: Basic Transmission Lines - Why use 'em at all? Follow the link below, and you will get right to it.

http://www.ultracad.com/mentor/transmission%20line%20basics.pdf

Other related articles can be found at http://mentor.com.

Until next month

Mike Dyrberg
pcb-update.com^®

Other related articles can be found at http://mentor.com.

Until next month

Mike Dyrberg
pcb-update.com^®