Elara didn’t flinch. “Read Section 1.4.”
Finally, she looked up. “You’re out of spec on seventeen parameters.”
Now, six months later, Elara understood his fear.
“I don’t care.” She grabbed a stylus and sketched on the failed board: a modified land pattern. One pad slightly elongated. The other slightly narrowed. A for the thermal relief. “This is what the IPC-7352 intended —not a cage, but a toolkit. They gave us rules so we could learn when to bend them.”