The flexible circuit has been at the head of a quiet revolution in
the world of electronic packaging, a revolution that has gone
largely unnoticed, lost in the excitement of continued advances in
semiconductor technology.
Flexible circuits are now a key enabling technology for products ranging from simple consumer goods to spacecraft. They are critical elements in such diverse products as medical equipment, keyboards, hard disk drives, printers and cellular phones.
Indeed, with a technology that moves as rapidly as flex, the best one can hope to do is to write about the state of the technology up to the moment of publication, after which time the text begins to drift into technology history. Nevertheless, this book is believed to be properly comprehensive
and it is hoped that it provides an engaging introduction to the world of flexible circuitry.
About aouthor. Joseph Fjelstad is a 34-year veteran of the electronics inter-connection industry and inteational authority, author, columnist, lecturer and innovator with more than 150 issued and pending US patents in the field. He is co-founder and CEO of SiliconPipe, a leader in high speed interconnection architecture design, much of it, not surprisingly, based on flexible circuit technology. Prior to founding SiliconPipe, he was with IC package technology developer Tessera Technologies, where he was appointed the company’s first fellow.
Flexible circuits are now a key enabling technology for products ranging from simple consumer goods to spacecraft. They are critical elements in such diverse products as medical equipment, keyboards, hard disk drives, printers and cellular phones.
Indeed, with a technology that moves as rapidly as flex, the best one can hope to do is to write about the state of the technology up to the moment of publication, after which time the text begins to drift into technology history. Nevertheless, this book is believed to be properly comprehensive
and it is hoped that it provides an engaging introduction to the world of flexible circuitry.
About aouthor. Joseph Fjelstad is a 34-year veteran of the electronics inter-connection industry and inteational authority, author, columnist, lecturer and innovator with more than 150 issued and pending US patents in the field. He is co-founder and CEO of SiliconPipe, a leader in high speed interconnection architecture design, much of it, not surprisingly, based on flexible circuit technology. Prior to founding SiliconPipe, he was with IC package technology developer Tessera Technologies, where he was appointed the company’s first fellow.