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Tuesday Feb 07, 2023
Tuesday Feb 07, 2023
In this episode, we are very excited to have Jesus Zozaya, CEO of Voltera, and Matt Ewertowski, product manager at Voltera. We will discuss pushing the boundaries in electronics design through printed electronics.
Join us and together let’s discover the many benefits of printed electronics from expedited prototyping, proof of concept, and academic research.
Show Highlights:
- Introduction to Jesus Zozaya, CEO of Voltera, and Matt Ewertowski, product manager at Voltera
- Jesus takes the lead in explaining what Voltera does, and introduced their first product – V-one
- Matt explains the difference between Printed Electronics and additive manufacturing process
- Electronics printer pushes the limits and welcomes new possibilities and opportunities for new materials in the electronic design space
- Voltera designed NOVA (their second product) with users in mind, they created a tool that all electrical engineers can utilize regardless of their skills in material science
- Can you do stack-ups using printed electronics?
- Jesus talks about a customer who created heaters directly on the drone’s wings to melt the ice when flying in cold temperature
- A Voltera customer printed electronics directly on a textile (face mask) that will allow a smartphone app to track the level of CO2 on the face mask
- Mark dives deep into the capabilities of NOVA
- Who is the target market for V-one and how does it differentiate from NOVA
- The V-one is seen to be utilize more for prototyping, meanwhile NOVA is popular with academic and R and D research
- Printed electronics do not replace traditional marketing, but it aids to expedite the process of getting the proof of concept done
Links and Resources:
- Connect with Jesus Zezoya on LinkedIn
- Connect with Matt Ewertowski on LinkedIn
- Visit Voletra’s website
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- Connect with Zach Peterson on LinkedIn
Wednesday Aug 17, 2022
Wednesday Aug 17, 2022
The business development manager of J.A.M.E.S., Alexandre Schafer talks about the organization’s vision to push the Additively Manufactured Electronic technology to become more accessible to the industry.
Show Highlights:
- What is J.A.M.E.S. and how did Alexandre become involved in the organization?
- J.A.M.E.S (Jetted Additively Manufactured Electronic Sources) is an online community of professionals, stake holder, manufacturers who share the same vision of accelerating the AME technology
- Alexadre’s AHA moment was seeing a drone’s PCB created through AME process
- The current technology readiness level is currently between experimental and demonstration pilot phase
- Introducing new technology to the industry has it’s challenges:
- Influencing engineers’ mindset
- Which design tool to use? In an ideal world a tool with both ECAD and MCAD design capabilities is necessary–a fully working 3D auto router will be amazing
- Design standards are inexistent at the moment
- On another note, the lack of design standards opens up to wider creative possibilities. Standardation is the enemy of freedom -Zach Peterson
- Moving forward to future plans: Scaling up, manufacturing of the equipments and creation of additive process design rules
- Availability of resources and current efforts to educate PCB designers through AME Academy
Links and Resources:
Follow J.A.M.E.S on LinkedIn
Connect with Alexandre Schafer on LinkedIn
Access Register to AME Academy
Visit J.A.M.E.S website
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Tuesday Apr 05, 2022
Tuesday Apr 05, 2022
In this episode, we will continue with the topic of Design WITH Manufacturing, and joining us is Mike Vinson, the Chief Operating Officer at Averatek. Mike will help us understand Averatek’s advanced PCB manufacturing processes, including the technology and chemistry behind A-SAP and 3D printing.
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Show Highlights:
- Mike Vinson's background
- Mike explains what is an Additive Process
- A-SAP–a semi-additive process used to make very fine features for high definition, and high density interconnects on print circuit boards.
- The ability to add metalization other than copper, such as platinum, gold, palladium
- 3D printing–a fully-additive process where all of the material is just added on, and nothing is subtracted away
- Averatek’s business’s scope
- Licensing the technology and selling the chemistry
- The current clientele is North America
- Efficient and secure prototyping
- Is the 3D surface solderable?
- MIDs or molded interconnect devices, are cool, but are they affordable?
- Tara Dunn, Averatek’s VP in Marketing, is the primary point of contact for licensing
- Tara is also one of Altium’s Industry Expert contributor
- What’s in the Averatek’s IPC Paper
- What does the economy look like for A-SAP technology? Will it be accessible, and cost-effective?
- Mikes talks about the scalability of materials set in A-SAP technology
- How can PCB designers take advantage of the A-SAP capabilities so that they can create more compact, smaller features, more advanced products?
- How about a transparent substrate? Averatek has worked with transparent polyimides and has done some other transparent substrates
- What are the things to look forward to in additive processes and the additive manufacturing realm in general?
Links and Resources:
Connect with Mike Vinson on LinkedIn
Visit Averatek's website
Check out Tara Dunn’s Articles on Altium Resource Hub
Watch Previous Episode Mike Vinson:
Sub-25 Micron Traces with Averatek ASAP Technology
Semi-Additive Process Technology at Averatek
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