Karen Lin May 09,2014 15579

Tips, hints for PCB Via Design

Tips for pcb Via DesignBasic theory Vias are often part of the signal routing. They are vertical connections between layers to simplify trace routing around other components or when there is a high d...

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Karen Lin May 08,2014 2823

A Guide to Checking PCBs

Have you ever been left feeling hopeless when you realise your board has some major flaw after sending it off to be manufactured? Or worse yet, after you receive the board? Well, nothing can prevent t...

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Karen Lin May 08,2014 3589

Capacitive Touch Sense on PCBs

Ever heard of capacitive touch sensing? It operates on a fairly simple principle: the human body can store charge. Touch an electrode on your board, which can also store charge, and you effectively ch...

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Karen Lin May 08,2014 3473

Vital PCB Design Tips and Tricks

So, you have a design for an amazing circuit, perhaps even tested it on a breadboard, and you’re thinking of building a more permanent solution on a custom printed circuit board… but wait! Before you ...

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Karen Lin May 08,2014 5910

Tips about printed circuit board design: Dealing with harmful PCB effects

Printed circuit boards (PCBs) are by far the most common method of assembling modern electronic circuits. Composed of a sandwich of insulating layer (or layers) and one or more copper conductor patter...

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Karen Lin May 08,2014 3689

PCB Design Guideline

Designing a matching printed circuit board (PCB) can be a challenge for many electronics enthusiasts. To help ease the process, Circuit Cellar and Elektor editors compiled a list of tips for laying ou...

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Karen Lin May 07,2014 2593

Create PCBs with the direct toner method

A simple and fast method to create PCBs without the exposure step. Instead of photo-resist, toner of a laserprinter is used as etch-resist. Material:•Laser printer (i use a HP laserjet 1010)&#...

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Karen Lin May 06,2014 2475

Simple PCB Design Tips

During my PCB design experience of around seven years, I have learnt some very simple tips to better PCB design irrespective of the EDA tool used. Here are these: 1.Use existing libraries as much as ...

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Karen Lin May 05,2014 2091

Tips for Designing PCBs

> These tips are not specific to using our CAD software, but instead provide an overview to help explain how to position the components on the board and how to wire them together. Placing Component...

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Karen Lin May 05,2014 5228

PCB layout tips for thermal vias

I came across an article on PCB layout in Electronic Design magazine. It’s a pretty good article and I am glad to see the trade magazines realize we care as much about PCB layout as the bus-caching ar...

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Karen Lin May 05,2014 4564

Tips on how to properly design/layout a Printed Circuit Board (PCB)

Make important nodes accessibleIt will eventually happen that you are trying to figure out why something is not working and you want to measure a signal inside your PCB. Before designing the PCB, you ...

Printed Circuit Board (PCB) PCB design/layout

Karen Lin May 05,2014 2822

Conversations with...IPC's Sharon Starr

IPC’s 2012-2013 Analysis & Forecast for the North American PCB Industry report has just been published so I thought it would be a good idea to sit down with Sharon Starr, director of market resear...

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Karen Lin May 05,2014 2515

What Onshoring Means for North America

The 2013 update to the study, On-Shoring in the Electronics Industry: Trends and Outlook for North America, published by IPC — Association Connecting Electronics Industries, confirms that companies ha...

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Karen Lin Apr 30,2014 3254

Trends in Laminate Materials for PCBs

New communications, networking and computing products continue to push the limits of bandwidth and transmission speeds in printed circuit boards. Ongoing miniaturization of electronic equipment and i...

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Karen Lin Apr 29,2014 1366

Stalled Growth Continues in North American Electronics Industry

North American electronics industry growth began to sag in December 2013 and that downward trend has continued through the first two months of 2014. U.S. new orders have remained flat since the Decemb...

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Karen Lin Apr 29,2014 1541

PCB Designers Frustrated by Cost-Cutting Managers

I just read an interesting article by Jason Bowden over on Planet Analog. In this article -- A Bad Case of Cost 'Frusfusion' -- Jason recounts his experiences of project costs increasing due to ineffe...

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Karen Lin Apr 29,2014 1634

Hot PCB, FPGA & MCU News From Altium

Since its inception, Altium has grown from a simple PCB design offering to an all-embracing PCB, FPGA, and MCU embedded systems design environment. This includes the Altium Designer intelligent 3D PCB...

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Karen Lin Apr 29,2014 1824

Arduino Mega Proto Screwshield PCB

In a recent blog, I discussed the creation of a rather cunning prototyping board -- a dual-board combo, actually -- that is being designed by my chum Duane Benson for use with my Arduino Mega. I'm hap...

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Karen Lin Apr 28,2014 12422

Printed Circuit Board Art

circuit board Box. Theo Kamecke started collecting vintage circuit boards in the 1980s. Old circuit boards were often handmade, and therefore unique and interesting. Inside of a circuit board box by ...

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Karen Lin Apr 25,2014 2315

Challenges the PCB Industry Will Face this Decade

A new report from Research and Markets, titled “Global printed circuit board Industry 2012-2017: Trends, Profits and Forecast Analysis,” was recently released. In addition to giving an outlook on the ...

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