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#681 – Compact High Speed Design with Lukas Henkel

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Welcome Lukas Henkel of OV Tech GmbH, a product design firm based in Nuremburg Germany!

  • Miniturization and the limits of miniturization
  • Price is a constraint
  • Using standard PCB tech (off the shelf)
  • Open source SIP
  • Steps
    • Conventional pcbs / components
    • Silicon inductors embedded in boards
    • Bonded Bare dies / stacked
  • Need volume to make it work
  • Requirements to fit into ______
  • iMX8 ULP – 0.4mm CSP
  • SIP Footprint
  • Module abstraction layer talk
  • Framework laptop
  • Software support / BSP
  • SIP will be different than PiMX8
  • Crowdsupply campaign launching 2-3 weeks and delivery in Dec/Jan
  • OpenSource laptop
  • CM4 vs PiMX8
  • SPI Flash with backup partition
  • Secure element SE050
  • Footprint for coral tpu and Halo 8
  • Trying to solve the problem of vision use cases
  • Marketing using layout / products but also making money on it
  • Katerina show
  • Visualizing simulations
  • Developing intuition
  • OpenEMS
  • Usability is based on python scripting
  • Using Blender for heat map
  • BVTKNodes uses .vtk file output
  • Multiphysics solvers
  • Things that drive Lukas
  • For HDI, Thinking in 3D / 2.5D and being able to visualize
  • Layers ranging from 4 to 18
  • Any layer design for SIP
  • Wurth electroncis for high density “any layer stackup”
  • Article series on altium for the open laptop
  • Follow Lukas on LinkedIn

Lukas also was a co-founder of PCB Arts. We had his cofounder Saber on the show in the past.

Comments

  1. John Weiss says

    October 31, 2024 at 1:41 pm

    Great show. Lukas work is great. What is “the consultants forum”? – Thx!

    • Chris Gammell says

      November 1, 2024 at 9:03 am

      The consultant forum is a quasi private section for consultants on the Contextual Electronics forum. Apply here: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLScYmuF7i3FyxY1j5sR72OSXqLI3j4UUAzIMsIL6Vn49HTXDYQ/viewform

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