Product Description

Nuts-and-bolts guide to designing printed circuit assemblies

Want to build circuit boards for today's smaller, faster electronics applications? This how-to tutorial puts a PCA design roadmap at your fingertips--valuable whether you're neophyte just starting out or an experienced designer, engineer or a manager associated with the electronics industry, as printed circuit assemblies are key building blocks in almost every commodity made today with any electronics content.

In this unique one-stop design guide you'll find complete coverage of electrical and mechanical design considerations as you explore: design process flow; the latest design methods and tools; circuit board layout; documentation; more.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #1916817 in Books
• Published on: 2000-07-27
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Hardcover
• 368 pages

From the Back Cover
Ever faster, ever smaller, today's electronics demand skilled and knowledgeable engineers behind the scenes, creating new assembly designs. This fundamental, practical guide provides all the tools today's electronics designers need to work through the PCA design process, one step at a time. Printed Circuit Assembly Design features:

*A complete road map to efficient PCA design *Outlines of design process and design flow *Coverage of both electronic and mechanical considerations for small, light, inexpensive PCAs *Next gen printed circuit design techniques and tools, including CAD methods *Systems design tools *Board layout tips and tactics *Quality control methods *Documentation guidance *Reference resources

A complete, one-stop guide for the PCA designer, Printed Circuit Assembly Design is the only book you need to stay at the advancing edge of design in electronics.

About the Author
Leonard Marks has over 35 years of aerospace and commercial industry experience in printed circuit assembly design and manufacturing. He was a pioneer in the use of computer-aided systems for circuit board layout, and has implemented and managed CAE/CAD/CAM systems at several major corporations. Mr. Marks’ manufacturing background includes installation and operation of state-of-the-art circuit board fabrication, assembly and test facilities at three different sites. Mr. Marks served on the board of directors of the International Microelectronics and Packaging Society, and was on the staff of Electronic Packaging and Production Magazine as contributing editor. He is a graduate of the Polytechnic University of New York. James A. Caterina has over 28 years of experience designing printed circuit assemblies for several major military and industrial electronics manufacturing companies. He is manager of the printed circuit design group at Northrop Grumman’s Illinois facility. Mr. Caterina has contributed to the development of several IPC standards.

Customer Reviews

More frustrated with this book
I am half way through this book, and it's starting to drive me crazy. The authors love to use bullet points. But often they use them to mention one word that really should come with some explanation. As it is this book often reads like an outline for a lecture that is designed for the speaker to expand on the bullet points.

This book does have useful information, but the widespread use of bullet points means the book has less information than you would expect from 400 pages.

Just a listing of issues
This book is disappointing in that it just lists the general subjects of what you should worry about when designing pcb's but does not then go on to say how to do it.

This book doesnt teach you how to plot PCB...
I would say, these 400 pages only give you an introduction to what PCB is. If you want to learn how to plot PCB , or good practise in plotting PCB, this is definite not the book.

I have read half of this 400+ pages book, but failed to find anything useful. Full of repeated but brief points, there is no elaboration on it.