Lee Ritchey’s Renowned Two-Day Class to Be Offered in Public Venues
Speeding Edge, a leading industry training and consulting firm specializing in the high-speed PCB and system design disciplines, today announced that company president, Lee Ritchey, will conduct his renowned two-day, high-speed PCB and system design class in two public sites. The first class will be held in Burlingame, California, August 6-7, 2007 and the second class will be held October 15-16, 2007, in Markham (Toronto), Canada. Those wishing to attend either course can register for the class through the company’s website, www.speedingedge.com
Lee Ritchey, founder and president of Speeding Edge noted, “I make on-going changes to our two-day class based on the design issues I encounter during my current consulting activities. We have found that when one company has a particular design problem, it’s more than likely that several companies will be experiencing similar problems. This is due to new components being continually introduced to the market; the resulting higher speeds of those components and changing package design considerations. The challenges arise when engineers are trying to integrate these new components into ‘legacy’ designs.”
Speeding edge regularly conducts private on-site classes for companies but, as Ritchey noted, “It is often helpful for students to share information about their design problems and the various engineering techniques they are employing to solve those problems. Conducting our courses in a public setting allows us to share state-of-the art information with the widest audience possible. Our goal with our classes is to get real-world information into the hands of our students so that they can go and solve real-world design problems the day they finish our class.”
Speeding Edge’s highly-practical course is designed to take the student through the entire process involved in designing and fabricating high-speed PCBs. It begins with the fundamentals of electromagnetic fields and the behavior of transmission lines that are the basis for all high-speed signaling. From there, it examines all of the aspects of high-speed design leading to the development of a robust set of PCB design rules that accounts for power subsystem design, routing rules and design of PCB stack-ups as well as the fabrication rules needed to balance performance against cost and manufacturability.
The materials and examples used in this course are drawn from actual designs of high-speed systems in current manufacture. These examples range from video games to terabit routers and cover the complete range of designs. The design process presented is based on many years of completing designs that are "right the first time". Students are shown many ways to improve their design process so that designs meet this objective. Reliable methods for controlling and containing EMI will also be thoroughly covered.
This course places special emphasis on very-high speed differential signaling protocols such as XAUI, Hypertransport, PCI Express, Infiniband, SATA, SSCSI and others that are the backbone of modern computing. Actual circuits are built and tested and then modeled to correlate modeling techniques. The topic of how to design power delivery systems capable of supporting these protocols is also addressed. Further details regarding the class are available at the company’s website, www.speedingedge.com.
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