{"id":3468,"date":"2014-11-12T13:25:16","date_gmt":"2014-11-12T20:25:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.mentor.com\/jimmartens\/?p=3468"},"modified":"2026-03-27T09:22:51","modified_gmt":"2026-03-27T13:22:51","slug":"standing-room-only-pcbcarolina-2014","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.sw.siemens.com\/electronic-systems-design\/2014\/11\/12\/standing-room-only-pcbcarolina-2014\/","title":{"rendered":"Standing Room Only @PCBCarolina 2014"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Raleigh, NC\u00a0\u2014 The\u00a0premier show for printed circuit board design and manufacturing in the Southeast, PCB Carolina Conference &amp; Exhibition, returned to the McKimmon Center at NC State University on November 5 and what an eventful day it was!<a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.sw.siemens.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/55\/2014\/11\/PCBCaro_Blog_graphic.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-3470 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.sw.siemens.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/55\/2014\/11\/PCBCaro_Blog_graphic.png\" alt=\"PCBCaro_Blog_graphic\" width=\"616\" height=\"259\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The standing-room-only keynote address was delivered by\u00a0Dr. Eric Bogatin whose talk entitled <em>&#8220;The Future of Circuit Boards in the\u00a0<\/em><em>28 Gbps Regime: Is the end in sight?&#8221;<\/em> \u00a0provided compelling insights on the decisions designers should make to increase the chances for success in their next high speed product design.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.sw.siemens.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/55\/2014\/11\/PCBC-2014-exhibit.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft  wp-image-3477\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.sw.siemens.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/55\/2014\/11\/PCBC-2014-exhibit.jpg\" alt=\"PCBC 2014 exhibit\" width=\"380\" height=\"285\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Exhibitor products ranged from printed circuit board (PCB) manufacturers, PCB test equipment makers, PCB design tool vendors, and design services bureaus. \u00a0There was even one-stop shops to take PCB products from design conception to product delivery. I had the opportunity to talk with engineers and designers from industries ranging from lighting to computers, and from consumer electronics to Mil\/Aero. \u00a0 Conversations included topics like high density, multilayered boards, blind and buried vias, Xpeditions 3D design and integrated flows.<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft  wp-image-3476\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.sw.siemens.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/55\/2014\/11\/PCBCPhotos1.png\" alt=\"PCBCPhotos1\" width=\"385\" height=\"259\" \/><\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ve enjoyed watching this events growth over the years. The exhibit floor once again was sold-out early and conference organizers\u00a0jam\u00a0packed this event with fun, food and technology for all. I can assure you no one left empty handed.<\/p>\n<p>My hat&#8217;s off to\u00a0the RTP Chapter of the IPC Designers Council for all their hard work and dedication for\u00a0making this a\u00a0successful event year after year!<\/p>\n<p>If you did not make it this year, bookmark this site: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.pcbcarolina.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">http:\/\/www.pcbcarolina.com<\/a> \u00a0and save the date. \u00a0I hope to see you at PCB Carolina 2015.<\/p>\n<p>Thanks for reading,<\/p>\n<p>John<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Raleigh, NC\u00a0\u2014 The\u00a0premier show for printed circuit board design and manufacturing in the Southeast, PCB Carolina Conference &amp; Exhibition, returned&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":32176,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"spanish_translation":"","french_translation":"","german_translation":"","italian_translation":"","polish_translation":"","japanese_translation":"","chinese_translation":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"industry":[],"product":[],"coauthors":[],"class_list":["post-3468","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sw.siemens.com\/electronic-systems-design\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3468","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sw.siemens.com\/electronic-systems-design\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sw.siemens.com\/electronic-systems-design\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sw.siemens.com\/electronic-systems-design\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/32176"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sw.siemens.com\/electronic-systems-design\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3468"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sw.siemens.com\/electronic-systems-design\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3468\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10443,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sw.siemens.com\/electronic-systems-design\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3468\/revisions\/10443"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sw.siemens.com\/electronic-systems-design\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3468"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sw.siemens.com\/electronic-systems-design\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3468"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sw.siemens.com\/electronic-systems-design\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3468"},{"taxonomy":"industry","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sw.siemens.com\/electronic-systems-design\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/industry?post=3468"},{"taxonomy":"product","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sw.siemens.com\/electronic-systems-design\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/product?post=3468"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sw.siemens.com\/electronic-systems-design\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=3468"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}