When to use flex It’s getting harder to fit everything in the box; it’s also getting more costly. One solution promising to help designers meet the size constraint head on is rigid-flex PCB technology...
Applications from prototyping to production Shane Stafford It is easy to dismiss a technology you can't see, but anyone working with circuit board applications would be mistaken to overlook ultravio...
Rising labor costs in China as well as currency appreciation hurt the nation’s domestic flexible printed circuit board industry last year, according to the “Global and China FPCB (Flexible Printed cir...
2013 was a - by looking at the facts - a rather good year for the global flexible PCB market, which grew by 9.4% YoY and is valued at approximately EUR 8.26 billion.Printed Circuit Boards (PCB) lie at...
To increase fabrication yield, it is important to center the traces between the fanout vias inside the BGA area. Large BGAs are usually 1mm pitch and medium sized ones are 0.8mm. Then we go down to 0....
I hope you were sufficiently inspired by last week’s discussion on preventing electrostatic discharge (ESD)-related fails to check your PCB and make sure you aren’t guilty of making a board with ESD ‘...
I posed a question a couple of weeks ago regarding film capacitors—what’s the meaning of the stripe on one end? Check the picture below. These are non-polarized capacitors so it’s not a polarity mark...
Complete PCB thermal design verification almost 3-times fasterMechanical engineers are turning to Mentor’s PCB thermal analysis software to facilitate collaboration and ensure thermal problems are sol...
My name is Charles Pfeil and my role at Mentor Graphics is one in which I always have a primary focus on routing technology and methods – although I do get involved in numerous other projects. I began...
Trends in North American Flexible Circuit Book-to-Bill Ratio The monthly North American PCB Market Report provides timely data on PCB market size, sales and order growth, book-to-bill ratios and near...
When your project is ready to build, it’s time to find a PCB manufacturer. There are tons of them out there, but for prototype purposes cheaper is usually better. [Ian] at Dangerous Prototypes has jus...
The ‘ElectroTestExpo’ consortium is pleased to announce the dates for its regional PCB test and debug exhibitions to be held during 2014. Now enjoying its fifth consecutive year of free-to-attend ...
Synchronous buck converters have gained acceptance as isolated bias supplies in communications and industrial markets. Isolated buck converters, or Fly-Buck™ converters as they are commonly call...
The basic design rules for power distribution networks (PDN) teach us that the best performance is obtained from a uniform, frequency independent (or flat) impedance profile. This is one reason that ...
The global PCB manufacturing market is expected to increase from around $62.3 billion in 2013 to around $74.31 billion in 2018, growing at a CAGR of 3.6%, according to research firm IndustryARC. The ...
IPC Releases PCB Industry Results for February 2014 BANNOCKBURN, Ill., USA, March 31, 2014 — IPC — Association Connecting Electronics Industries® announced today the February findings from its m...
The most common question asked of electronic product developers today is how to do more with less. How do you incorporate newer, faster technologies in smaller packages to take advantage of new produc...
In an earlier paper, we established the importance of design for manufacturing (DFM) in today’s PCB manufacturing environment. PCBs designed using those techniques typically experience reduced failure...
What’s keeping you? Why does that quote take so darn long? I hear comments like this all the time from my buyer friends who ask why PCB shops’ quotes take so long. “Why are we kept waiting when we’re ...
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