Who's Speaking at DesignCon's Spring Break Webinar Series?Who's Speaking at DesignCon's Spring Break Webinar Series?
Engineers will gain insights into several hot tech topics during DesignCon's Spring Break webinar series.
March 26, 2021

DesignCon’s Spring Break five-session webinar series is bringing top engineering thought leaders to the virtual table. Engineers will have the opportunity to take in practical insights and solutions to design the next generation of technologies for the electronics chip, board, and system industries.
Each session will walk through use cases, propose various tools for solving a range of design problems, and expand the attendee's understanding of key engineering principles.
In addition to gaining technical insights, all five webinars are free to attendees. Plus, every attendee will receive a discount code to join us at DesignCon’s annual in-person conference, August 16-18, 2021, at the San Jose McEnery Convention Center. Register for any of the five webinars by April 9 and receive information on an online networking opportunity with select speakers from the DesignCon community.
Here's a quick overview of the topic areas and what attendees will learn from participating in each webinar:
1) PCB Fabrication: What SI/PI Engineers Need to Know for First Time Modeling Success
Monday, April 12, 2021, 01:00 PM EDT
When you attend this webinar, you will learn:
The PCB fabrication process and associated SI/PI simulation modeling implications;
Conductor roughness and its effect on dielectric constant, characteristic impedance, phase delay, and insertion loss;
Cannonball-Huray roughness model and how to apply it in several EDA software tools;
How to extract and apply the right material properties from manufacturers’ data sheets to use for successful high-speed channel modeling;
Advantages and pitfalls of PCB stack-up on power integrity.
2) 400 Gbps & Beyond Optical Transceiver Design Considerations
Tuesday, April 13, 2021, 01:00 PM EDT
When you attend this webinar, you will learn:
A basic understanding of optical transceivers;
Design considerations for 400/800-Gbps transceivers;
Design, packaging, and integration challenges of integrated optical engines.
3) Power Integrity: Analyze Impedance to Improve Power Delivery, SI & EMI
Wednesday, April 14, 2021, 01:00 PM EDT
When you attend this webinar, you will:
Learn how to reverse engineer target impedance to generate requirements for the VRM’s active inductance and the load’s package/die capacitance;
Watch how flat impedance design improves design margins over component tolerances and avoids the disaster of a rogue voltage wave arriving at the load;
Explore advanced PI ecosystem time-domain simulations with EM PCB models to understand Power Supply Rejection Ratio (PSRR) and the potential sources for conducted EMI.
4) Controlling the Waves: A Field-based Perspective on High-speed PCB Design
Thursday, April 15, 2021, 01:00 PM EDT
When you attend this webinar, you will:
The basic behavior of EM fields as they move through the PCB and ways to control them;
The most important characteristics of the ICs in the design that affect the PCB layout requirements;
How to create an effective board stackup;
How to use these characteristics to define the PDN component selection and placement, as well as the interconnects needed to create the transmission lines that support these requirements;
How to use these characteristics to define the transmission lines that carry the high-speed signals.
5) OEM Roundup 2021: The New ADAS
Friday, April 16, 2021, 01:00 PM EDT
When you attend this webinar, you will learn:
What OEMs see as the biggest gap of driving automation and how ADAS will fill it;
Timeline expectations for L2+/L2++ ADAS system roll-out;
The systems that will make the biggest differences in user experience.
Technical talent speaking during DesignCon’s virtual webinar
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