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.