Black Stick launch re-designed website, and we would like to say a special thanks to Newebia Ltd, for a great job well done under a tight timescale. www.newebia.co.uk [opens in new window]
All comments and suggestions on the new website welcome please email webmaster@blackstick.co.uk
Black Stick will be launching its current and voltage calculator at National Electronics Week. The calculator has been designed to allow current and voltage calculations early in the electronic design process, ensuring component and track width gaps can be achieved.
See our resources page to download the latest version of the C4 calculator.
www.blackstick.co.uk/resources.html
Black Stick, the PCB design professionals will be at National Electronics Week from the 17th to 19th of June, to offer help and advice on PCB layout challenges from singles sided circuits right through to ultra high speed multi layer circuits with buried technology.
Come see us at stand J45 where we will be happy to have a friendly chat about any aspects of your PCB layout challenges.
National Electronics Week, in London Earls Court from 17th to 19th June
www.nationalelectronicsweek.co.uk [opens in new window]
Alan Graham, Director of Black Stick Ltd takes the prestigious CID+ qualification. Black Stick Ltd operates in an environment of CPD and is committed to staff development. All Black Stick Ltd PCB Designers are minimum CID qualified.
Black Stick takes milestone 250th IPC PCB Design Certification
Alan Graham, Director of Stoke-on-Trent based PCB Design Bureau Black Stick Ltd, marked an industry milestone as the 250th person in the UK to secure the CID certification from the IPC, but warns of a rapidly increasing skills shortage for this key British business sector.
Read the full story here...
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A shortage of PCB design resource in the UK could be exposed if there is a last minute rush to redesign boards to meet the upcoming RoHS lead-free rules.
PCB companies have warned that firms could see project lead times increasing as design firms become swamped by a potential last minute increase in PCB redesigns... According to Alan Graham from PCB design firm Black Stick, the concern is that the UK may not have sufficient PCB design capability to support the anticipated increase in demand for last minute PCB re-designs. "There could be a serious bottleneck for PCB re-designs," says Graham
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Black Stick will be launching its current and voltage calculator at National Electronics Week.