MATCH UP!
Fabricators, OEMs, Designers,
Educators & Materials
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With its unmatched reputation for supplying PCB manufacturers Best-in-Class materials from World-Class Suppliers, Insulectro again innovates with another breakthrough offering –
Design and Education Services
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Recognizing the need for exacting PCB and PE design, Insulectro offers its fabricator and OEM customers complete Design Services through a carefully selected consortium of our industry’s top design houses.
Paired with new, vibrant Educational Service offerings, Insulectro ensures that game-changing materials match-up with optimized designs. Insulectro’s industry experience generates credibility for design work. By streamlining the process and utilizing Insulectro’s industry knowledge of materials and fabrication, customers can bring their boards to market faster and more cost effectively.
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Enabling Our Customers to Build Better Circuits, FASTER.
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Insulectro Design & Education:
Dynamic Leadership
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Megan Teta CID+
Product Manager
Design & Education
Insulectro's goals are to assist you in your design efforts - through design and education.
We have recognized that there is a need to keep the industry up to date on the latest and greatest materials especially as the technology is becoming ever more difficult.
Insulectro has spent a lot of time working through our ACT program which works with the fabricators and OEMs to find the best fit material for their needs.
Throughout this process we have become increasingly more aware of how critical the design is to ensure the performance of the final assembled circuit board. The best materials can not overcome a poor design.
Knowing this, Insulectro will be partnering with Design Houses with the goal of making Revision 1 work.
Our design partners will aid in everything from design checks to full schematic to routing, layout, and stackup.
In addition to working alongside these Design Houses we are taking an initiative on education throughout the industry. Some items that are first to bat is product materials, where materials fit within certain designs, and overall DFX.
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Mike Creeden CID+ MIT
Technical Director
Design & Education
Wherever you are in your design and development progress we’re eager to support your efforts for success. Not just the best materials, we want your design to make the best use of it.
- Material Recommendations
- Stack-up Suggestions: Performance, Solvability and DFX
- HDI, RF, Flex, Rigid-Flex, SI
- Design Reviews
- Manufacturing Interface
- Design Layout Outsource
Let us put you in touch with the material experts and the fabrication supply chain, EARLY in the design cycle.
- Early ensures a correct by construction approach.
- It ensures that material is on hand when needed so no delays, cost or technical concessions are required.
Three Perspectives of Design Success to Make Revision One Work:
- DFS – Design for Solvability (HDI uRouting & uPackaging)
- DFP – Design for Performance (Signal Integrity HSD, RF & PDN)
- DFM – Design for Manufacturability (Material, Feature Size, & Process)
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San Diego PCB & Freedom CAD Become First Design Houses to Join Insulectro's Consortium
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San Diego PCB Design
is a team of leading-edge PCB layout experts who specialize in applications with the most stringent PCB requirements such as
Telecom, Aerospace, Robotics and the Internet of Things
. These designs typically employ high speed digital, rf, and high density interconnect features that require the high performance materials supplied by Insulectro.
SDPCB's designers share one common value…
Customer First
, and offer personalized, professional service whether you are local, regional or international. This has made San Diego PCB one of the most successful PCB design service centers in the industry. The designers employed at San Diego PCB are
CID and/or CID+
(Certified Interconnect Designers) which means you can rest assured your PCB layout will be done correctly, on time and within budget.
SDPCB's business philosophy to provide a
Virtual CAD Department
in order to effectively utilize emerging technologies, and to quickly leverage error-free data through the use of Altium, PADS, Xpedition, and Allegro/OrCAD in order to solve the most simple to the most complicated designs. San Diego PCB is
headquartered in San Diego, CA
with offices in Phoenix, AZ and Milwaukee, WI and other locations around the country.
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Freedom CAD
has a rich history with a core team that has been together since the early 1990′s.
Our roots go deep. Freedom CAD was
founded by leaders of some of the industries most influential and well regarded PCB Design & Engineering firms
to become one of the largest PCB Service Bureaus in the US and voted as 1 of the top 3 companies to work for in New Hampshire.
The founders of Freedom CAD Services were
also founders of Mosher Design Services, Alternate Circuit Design Technologies, and e2E Corporation
, all successful and recognized service bureaus.
Freedom CAD is
ISO 9001:2015 Certified
as well as
ITAR Registered
with the Directorate of Defense Trade Controls (DDTC).
Their mission is simple:
Provide the best service and the highest quality while delivering on time
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To execute on that mission, Freedom CAD's designers are well versed in rules-driven, highly constrained, high speed, analog, power supply, military, medical and RF design technology, to name a few.
We utilize well supported and high-end software suites including Cadence Allegro, Altium Designer, Mentor Xpedition, & PADS.
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Everyday Materials You Need, On Our Shelves Every Day
Insulectro recognizes the importance of maintaining adequate inventory to begin work. Designers know when you need it, you need it. Using the link
getpumafast.com
, you can see what PumaFast™ and standard materials we stock to get you up and running.
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Are Your Design
Requirements Changing?
Smaller lines and spaces, tighter registration requirements?
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Insulectro offers solutions to these more demanding requirements.
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For Flex applications, check out the complete
Pacothane®
line of conformable products enabling the application of cover-lay materials between narrow lines and spaces.
TriPak®
combined with
PacoFlex®
products offer unparalleled conformability eliminating air voids at the base of the trace.
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For Dynamic Flex applications, we offer the
JX Nippon
line of Grade 8 Low temperature annealable flex foils.
HA
and
HA-V2
offer a cubical grain giving the ultimate in flexibility in both directions (cross grain and down grain).
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For tight registration requirements, let us show you how to move to the next level in registration ability with the
TADCO
line of lamination products. TADCO offers the most accurate tooling plate and bushing combinations in the industry. This, combined with the spacer plate method, can improve your registration allowing you to meet today’s ever tightening design requirements.
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For fine-line requirements, Insulectro offers thin foils down to 3 microns – these foils can be a life saver when producing sub-laminations that have fine lines and spaces.
I'm geeking out! Call me!
Joe Bevan
Product Manager
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EMD Performance Materials Provides
Paste Don't Plate
Design Solution for Thick Panels
Q: What is Ormet®?
A:
Ormet® is a way to create Z interconnects with copper paste instead of plating.
Q: Why would I choose Ormet® over conventional processing?
A:
There are 4 main reasons why people choose Ormet®. See the examples below.
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Thick Panels:
- Thick panels offer manufacturing and design challenges. Thick panels tend to have many layers which require many vias for electrical connection, which compromises surface real estate.
- With Ormet you build smaller subs and bond them together with a low flow pre-preg and let the Ormet make that electrical connection between the subs.
- Thick panels can also be difficult to drill and may require flip drilling which can be problematic and challenging.
- Finally, thick panels tend to have high aspect ratio holes which are hard to metalize.
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Eliminate Back Drill:
- Back drill is not ideal for electrical performance, so eliminating the nub and dead space all together provide a cleaner signal.
- The back drill process in manufacturing can be challenging and lead to scrap on a panel that is 99% complete.
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Reduce Process Steps:
For jobs that require several lamination steps, the Ormet process allows a board to built in 1 lamination step.
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Increase Surface Real Estate:
- As mentioned before the reduced need for vias will increase surface real estate.
- Cap cores can have Ormet vias connected from layer 2 to layer 1 and from layer n-1 to layer n with Ormet. The surface won’t have any surface drills that can hinder electrical performance or take up real estate.
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Ormet's single lamination process eliminates sequential yield loss and reduces time in factory by more than 50%.
For more of the story, call me. . .
Jeff Johnson
FAE & Product Manager
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What is ACT!
Accomplish
Change Together
ACT! is the ultimate sales solution collaboration with Insulectro as Supplier, you our Customer, the designer, and the OEM.
The strategy is to provide technical solutions with lower cost of ownership, speed to market, product performance and unmatched service and support.
Let’s schedule a
Lunch and Learn
in your plant!
Ask me how we can ACT! and together we can change the conversation!
I'm pumped!
Ron Murdock
ACT! Manager & Technical Account Manager
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DuPont™ Interra™ HK04J & HK04M Deliver Superior Handling Capability & Design Flexibility
Power Distribution Networks (PDNs) for network and telecom applications are facing the increasing challenges of denser IC designs, smaller packaging sizes and higher device speeds. To reduce the noise in the system, decoupling capacitors have historically been placed on the surface of the board – but designers are running out of room for any more capacitors.
One solution is embedded capacitance: designers can place a thin copper clad laminate between the power and ground planes to lower the inductance and reduce the impedance and noise in the system.
By reducing
the in-plane inductance between power and ground layers, designers can remove surface mount capacitors to free up space on the board, simplify circuit routing, improve reliability and reduce costs.
The best choice for embedded capacitance laminates is the Interra™ HK04 product family.
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Interra™ HK04J and HK04M boast best-in-class mechanical properties and deliver superior handling capability, even as the dielectric thickness is reduced to 12 µm. This allows designers to reap the benefits of the thinnest embedded capacitance material without sacrificing yields during processing. Interra™ HK04J and HK04M also offer designers more design flexibility with their excellent capacitance stability over a range of frequencies, voltages and temperatures.
Interra™ HK04J is available with 25 µm dielectric thickness and Interra HK04M is available with 12 and 25 µm dielectric thicknesses.
You’re going to love DuPont™ Interra™ laminates, call me quick!
Mike King
DuPont Product Manager
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Insulectro's Londonderry NH Branch Adds Slitting Capability
Insulectro has recently purchased a new
Catbridge 900-0 Duplex Slitter
and unwind system. The model 900-O is a high speed, modular, duplex center slitter rewinder with cantilevered rewind shafts and overhead web path. The unit has a web speed from 50-2,500 FPM and a web width of 24” to 62” with maximum rewind diameter of 31.5”. The unit is capable of rewind slit widths of 2” to 42” roll sizes.
This unit will be installed in our Londonderry, NH branch in our new custom sheeting and converting center, where we are completing our new clean room facility. We invested in this piece of equipment to support our advanced substrate business.
This equipment will provide Insulectro with in-house capabilities to convert larger rolls to smaller rolls. It will allow us to provide our customer and supplier base with material same day and/or next day deliveries while maintaining quality standards.
Designers understand it's all about speed to the market!
I gotta tell you, this is big!
Kevin Miller
VP Sales Printed Electronics
Insulectro exists to helps its Customers thrive.
Then, now, and later.
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To be the easiest company to do business with. . .
Insulectro has a program for continual improvement, all designed to make ourselves as user-friendly as possible to our customers, their customers, and our suppliers. Speed Matters, so we focus a lot of attention on getting you the materials you need as quickly as possible.
Our
PumaFast™ Program
lists current inventory of everyday materials you need every day.
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Best-in-Class Materials
from our Premiere Suppliers
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