Real Time with... IPC APEX EXPO 2025: Insights into PCB Design and Manufacturing with Polar Instruments
April 3, 2025 | Real Time with...IPC APEX EXPOEstimated reading time: Less than a minute

Erik Bateham discusses Polar's latest book, which enhances insights for PCB designers and manufacturers. The book, The Designer's Guide to... More Secrets of High-Speed PCBs, features a guest chapter on 2D via design modeling. Erik highlights the industry's shift towards UHDI and the challenges in measuring at micron levels.
The 25th IPC APEX EXPO, March 18-20, 2025, at the Anaheim Convention Center in California, has concluded successfully. If you couldn’t make it to the show, don’t worry—the I-Connect007 team has coverage of the entire week’s events. Don’t miss our Real Time with… IPC APEX EXPO 2025 video interviews with the movers and shakers of the electronics industry.
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