This article is part of the Ideas for Design Series: Volume 3

The Volume 3, No. 5 issue of Ideas for Design features:

• An approach to shrink product sizes by 50% by using advanced via technology to combine two conventional eight-layer cards into a single 18-layer HDI card.
• A way to implement a much-more efficient parsing scheme by converting the text into two-letter pairs using a simple encoding table, and representing each by a 16-bit number. 

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• Use Advanced PCB Technology To Produce 50% Smaller Product Designs
• Text Encoding Simplifies Microcontroller Command Parsing