PCB East 2025 Exhibition Floor Sold Out

PEACHTREE CITY, GA – The exhibition floor is sold out for PCB East, the largest exhibition and conference for printed circuit board design, fabrication and assembly in New England. 

“Coming off an outstanding PCB East 2024, booth sales for our 2025 event have been strong,” said Frances Stewart, vice president of sales and marketing at PCEA. “We’re looking forward to another great event.” 

PCB East will be held April 29 – May 2, at the Boxboro Regency Hotel & Conference Center in Boxborough, MA. The one-day exhibition takes place on April 30.

This year’s exhibition will feature more than 65 industry-leading companies, ranging from printed circuit board design software developers to fabricators and assemblers, and equipment and materials suppliers. Attendees will be treated to a free lunch on the expo floor during the exhibition on April 30.

Attendees will also gain access to six free technical sessions featuring topics on AI and PCB design, flex design, simulation, UHDI, PCB signal layers and more.

Following the close of the exhibition and free technical sessions, a reception will take place on the exhibition floor sponsored by Cofactr and EMA Design Automation.

To conclude the day, a PCB design community meetup will be held at the conference center.

Anyone who registers at pcbeast.com for the exhibition and free sessions by April 29 will receive free admission. Day of show registration for the exhibition and free sessions is $25.

Design Certification Classes Announced

PEACHTREE CITY, GA – PCEA Training is offering live Certified Professional Circuit Designer (CPCD) training and certification classes starting in May, June, August, September and November. The career development sessions are for printed circuit engineers, layout professionals and other individuals currently serving in the design engineering industry or seeking to get into it.

The instructor-led classes cover the gamut of printed circuit design engineering, from layout, place and route to specifications and materials to manufacturing methods. Schematic capture, signal integrity and EMI/EMC are also part of the comprehensive program.

Classes will be held once a week over five weeks. Each class is 40 hours long and includes a copy of Printed Circuit Engineering Professional, a 400-page handbook on circuit board design, and the optional certification exam recognized by PCEA.

There are no prerequisite requirements to enroll. Upcoming classes will be held online. All courses are led by experienced instructors.

The course handbook, Printed Circuit Engineering Professional, was authored by Michael Creeden, Stephen Chavez, Rick Hartley, Susy Webb and Gary Ferrari, industry veterans who combined have more than 200 years experience designing and building PCBs for all types of applications.

For information or to register, visit pceatraining.net/registration.

PCEA Announces PCB Detroit Conference Sessions and Tabletop Exhibitors

PEACHTREE CITY, GA – Registrants for PCB Detroit this June will gain access to several technical sessions and a tabletop exhibition, PCEA announced. 

The sessions take place on June 2-3 on the campus of Wayne State University in Detroit, MI, and cover topics ranging from controlling noise, using AI in hardware and PCB design, flex and rigid-flex materials and DfM, HDI via design, and PCB cost drivers, among others.

Conference sessions include:

• “Circuit Grounding to Control Noise and EMI” – Rick Hartley, RHartley Enterprises
• “Solving Routing Problems in Digital Boards” – Susy Webb, Design Science
• “HDI Via Design: Planning the Energy Pipelines” – Dan Beeker, NXP Semiconductor
• “Low Layer Count and IoT PC Board Design” – Rick Hartley, RHartley Enterprises
• “Designing Complex PCBs” – Stephen Chavez, Siemens
• “Design Guidelines Associated with Unique RF Features” – John Johnson, ASC Sunstone
• “Designing with Embedded Materials” – Bob Carter, Oak-Mitsui
• “Using AI in Hardware and PCB Design: Real Strategies to Increase Efficiency and Output” – Ethan Pierce, Dodec Labs
• “Flex/Rigid Flex: Materials, DFM and Cost Impacts” – Dave Lackey, ASC Sunstone
• “PCB Cost Drivers” – Michael Marshall, NCAB Group
• “The Most Common Design Errors Caught by Fabrication (and How to Prevent Them)” – Mike Tucker, Millenium Circuits Ltd./Ray Fugitt, DownStream Technologies

PCB Detroit will also feature a tabletop exhibition on June 2 with 15 companies including A2Z Electronics, ADCO Circuits, AllSpice.io, Altair, ASC Sunstone Circuits, BarTron, Cofactr, DirectPCB, DownStream Technologies, Electronic Interconnect, K&F Electronics, Polyonics, RBB, Summit Interconnect, and Zuken USA. 

A free reception on June 2 and a special designers meetup (registration required) on June 3 will be held after classes end those days.

Registration for the two-day technical conference and the tabletop exhibition takes place at events.american-tradeshow.com/pcbdetroit/begin. Conference registration is required for both the conference and tabletop exhibition. Plus, lunch will be provided to registrants.

Wayne State University is Michigan’s third-largest university and a licensee of the PCEA Training Certified Printed Circuit Designer curriculum. 

For more information about PCB Detroit, visit pcea.net/pcb-detroit or contact pcbdetroit@pcea.net.