When visiting Lifetime's Irvine facilities, you'll immediately notice our PCB layout stations are located right next to our production floor. There's a reason for that: Close proximity makes for close communication, which makes for superbly designed boards that are high in quality, quick and easy to manufacture, and less expensive than the competition.

Wherever possible, Lifetime's staff designs component profiles with pads sized to fit not just one component package, but several. This allows multiple sources of the same component, lowering costs and eliminating leadtimes. Should leadtimes stretch or prices rise on one package, often a different package may be immediately substituted with no downtime.

Our design staff are knowledgeable of the complete design process, including the following areas:

• Up to 24 layers, down to .01 mil line traces, .01 mil spaces, .01 mil vias
• Experienced in many forms of IC packaging including fine-pitch surface mount, through-hole and Ball Grid Array.
• Totally fluent in using PADS PowerPCB either manually or with Spectra (Cooper-Chyan) auto routing.
• Able to do matched line lengths and impedance control.
• Vast database of component pads shortens design time.
• Constant communication with Lifetime's procurement team eliminates sole-source hang-ups.
• Practical experience in physical design such as cases and enclosures make for increased manufacturability.
• Well-versed in EMI radiation issues, able to prevent problems at the design level.

      
Lifetime Memory Products
PO Box 16669
Irvine, CA 92614
(949) 794-9000 (tel)
(949) 794-9023 (fax)
sales@lifetimememory.com