Selecting PCB Materials: Electrical and Manufacturing Considerations

Amit Bahl

Director of Sales & Marketing
Sierra Circuits

Matthew Harms

Electrical Engineer
EMA Design Automation

In this webinar

Choosing the right materials for your PCB design is important because the materials you choose can impact the overall performance. Therefore, understanding the manufacturing process and your options are critical to design success. Knowing how the thermal and electrical properties impact your design before you get to the manufacturing stage can save you time and money while achieving best results. Join us to learn how to implement this knowledge into your next board design.

What you will learn:

• The different types of PCB materials, categories, and the basic dielectric material properties.
• The correlation between signal loss and operating frequency in a given PCB material.
• Types of HDI PCB materials and best practices.
• PCB material selection best practices.
• PCB stack-up and its significance.
• How to model different PCB materials in your CAD software with advanced analysis and impedance matching.
• PCB material information straight from the manufacturing experts.

About Amit Bahl

Amit has been in the PCB industry for 20 years. He is the Director of Sales and Marketing at Sierra Circuits. His passion is to empower tech companies to achieve their visions and change the world. Rockets going into space, self-driving cars taking up the streets, cancer-fighting medical devices, protecting the country, he’s ready to build any circuit board!

About Matthew Harms

Matthew Harms is an Electrical Engineer from Canada and has been with EMA as an Application Engineer since 2003 and as the Application Engineer Team Leader since 2018. At EMA, he specializes in design side issues pertaining to part management, circuit simulation, signal integrity and power integrity but is conversant in all facets of ECAD design.