Sunday March 2, 2025

There will be breaks including refreshments to provide networking time for Tutorial attendees.

Please note: attendance at the tutorial will be limited. Please sign-up early to not miss out!

1:00 to 3:00 pm

Tutorial

Optional Tutorial

“To be announced”

3:00 pm

Networking Break

3:30 to 5:30 pm

Tutorial

Optional Tutorial

“Connecting Your DUT to Your Tester”

Thomas "Tom" Bresnan

R&D Altanova

This tutorial will be an across-the-board (pun intended) look at those Printed Circuit Boards under your socket. Our focus will be the attributes, materials and processes required to produce those test interface boards we know you’ve been dying to learn more about. We’ll attempt to bring the board shop to you, giving you a better understanding of what you and your vendors are up against.

We’ll explore a brief history of the PCB or PWB (Printed Circuit/Wiring Board) industry in general and specifically concerning the ATE industry. We’ll see how pitch, layer count, overall thickness, and hole diameter, to name but a few of the most critical attributes, will impact the manufacturing (and co$t) of today’s test interface boards. We’ll examine the many options currently available for materials and how those options may be shrinking, right along with device pitch.

We’ll then move on to explain, in detail, the PWB manufacturing process; from raw materials through finished product.

Last but certainly not least, we’ll discuss quality and performance characteristics you can demand of your supplier(s). Even with today’s boards becoming more crowded (with components) and pitch and pin counts driving attributes ever smaller, there are ways to verify and validate the quality of your interface boards with your suppliers. We’ll show you how, with samples of our data gathered over years of process development, characterization and verification.

Mr. Tom Bresnan is an Account Manager & Technical Sales Engineer from R&D Altanova of South Plainfield, NJ, joining them in August 2003. His more than 30 years of printed circuit manufacturing experience includes positions in various Engineering, Management and Sales roles for some of the world’s largest manufacturers of complex printed circuit boards, including; Hadco, Multek and Sanmina-SCI. He is a distinguished lifetime member of the IPC Technical Activities Executive Committee and has presented and published numerous technical articles for the PWB industry on MCM-L’s and advanced plating capabilities. He resides in Fort Myers, FL with his wife Joanne. Mr. Tom Bresnan is an Account Manager & Technical Sales Engineer from R&D Altanova of South Plainfield, NJ, joining them in August 2003. His more than 30 years of printed circuit manufacturing experience includes positions in various Engineering, Management and Sales roles for some of the world’s largest manufacturers of complex printed circuit boards, including; Hadco, Multek and Sanmina-SCI. He is a distinguished lifetime member of the IPC Technical Activities Executive Committee and has presented and published numerous technical articles for the PWB industry on MCM-L’s and advanced plating capabilities. He resides in Fort Myers, FL with his wife Joanne. Mr. Tom Bresnan is an Account Manager & Technical Sales Engineer from R&D Altanova of South Plainfield, NJ, joining them in August 2003. His more than 30 years of printed circuit manufacturing experience includes positions in various Engineering, Management and Sales roles for some of the world’s largest manufacturers of complex printed circuit boards, including; Hadco, Multek and Sanmina-SCI. He is a distinguished lifetime member of the IPC Technical Activities Executive Committee and has presented and published numerous technical articles for the PWB industry on MCM-L’s and advanced plating capabilities. He resides in Fort Myers, FL with his wife Joanne

5:30 p

Welcome Reception

If this is your twenty-forth time attending TestConX, only your first, or somewhere in-between you will feel welcomed at the opening reception by friends old and new.

6:30 p

Dinner

The first of many excellent meals awaits as you get to network with other industry professionals. This is a great time to catch up with old colleagues or start meeting new friends.