North Texas Chapter IPC Designers Council



Meeting Minutes for:
Date:          September 21, 2000
Time:          6:00 PM to 8:30 PM
Place:         Richardson - Taffy's Restaurant
Attendees:     Keith Larson, Circuit Technology
               Andy Kowalewski, Philips Semiconductor
               Glenn Wells, Intelect Network Technologies
               Paul Bartholomew, Alcatel USA
               Woody Adams, Cerprobe Interconnect Solutions
               Doug Boone, Plano CAD Engineering
               Lisa Buchanan, Raytheon
               Robert Erbacher, Nokia Networks
               Kris Kistner, Texas Instruments
               Jim Thompson, VBTek, LLC
               Larry Petrosian, NEC America
               Chip Buchanan, Texas Instruments

               Special guests:
               Steve Caron, Schlumberger
               Thanh V. Le, Schlumberger

Next Chapter Meeting
Date:          Thursday, November 2, 2000
Time:          5:00 PM to 9:00 PM
Location:      TBD - See Web site: http://www.circuit-technology.com/html/ipc_design_council.html

Minutes
Video: Introduction to SMT Test
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Chapter announcements - Andy
Doug Brookes will be giving a talk about Transmission Lines at the Collin County Community
Colllege on October 2nd. This is free, but places are limited. If you are interested in attending,
please call Glenn Wells on (972) 367 2137 to make arrangements.

The Houston Chapter has Rick Hartley presenting a workshop on EMI and Crosstalk on October 6th. Refer to our link to the Houston Chapter for more information.

Our next Chapter meeting will be held at Texans on November 2nd. We are having a CAD vendor night, and that should be very informative, as well as a lot of fun. See our Web page for more details.

Also at the meeting on November 2nd, we will be having the Chapter elections. Anyone interested in serving is urged to contact any one of our officers for details.

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Overview of PCB Test issues - Glenn
Drawing for digital camera - winner: Kris Kistner, Congratulations!
Technical Presentation: Thanh V. Le and Steve Caron, Schlumberger;
very good presentation on optical probing of flip chip packages.
Thanks to Thanh and Steve for their excellent presentation!





Paul Bartholomew, Secretary/Treasurer
972-477-8491 (new phone number)
paul.bartholomew@usa.alcatel.com