TY - JOUR AB - Ten years ago, long before surface mounting became an issue for mass production, the role of the printed circuit designer was mainly to design a conductive interconnect with through‐hole mounted connecting pins. At this time, manufacturing technology was very little influenced by the circuit designer, since all components were inserted into through‐holes and only a few basic rules were required for the soldering of the through‐hole mounted components. VL - 17 IS - 3 SN - 0305-6120 DO - 10.1108/eb046129 UR - https://doi.org/10.1108/eb046129 AU - Weinhold Michael PY - 1991 Y1 - 1991/01/01 TI - Introducing the International Circuit Designers Association (ICDA) T2 - Circuit World PB - MCB UP Ltd SP - 2 EP - 3 Y2 - 2024/04/20 ER -