Designing a printed circuit board for a new product or project you are working on is a lot more complicated than you might think. While it may see like all you need to do is use some sort of layout sy...
Karen Lin
Apr 25,2014
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Today, life is a wonderful thing for the open hardware hacker and hobbyist. Ten years ago, electronic industry professionals could have only dreamed of development kits such as the Arduino, BeagleBone...
Karen Lin
Apr 24,2014
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High Density Interconnect (HDI) circuit board designs have a higher wiring and pad density than conventional PCBs, along with smaller trace widths and spaces. They require advanced PCB technologies su...
Karen Lin
Apr 24,2014
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I have previously written on the joys and tribulations associated with creating one's own PCBs. Based on the enthusiastic number of comments, our esteemed editor -- Max Maxfield -- thought it might be...
Karen Lin
Apr 24,2014
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Sometimes it's the little things that trip you up and slow you down. When it comes to PCB design, the electronic components are sexier than things like connectors, so they get most of the attention wh...
Karen Lin
Apr 24,2014
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Many of today's semiconductors do a great job in circuit designs for measurement applications. ADC (analog-to-digital converter) and DAC (digital-to-analog converter) devices offer astounding resoluti...
Karen Lin
Apr 24,2014
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I must admit that I am aquiver with excitement about my project to create a pedagogical and phantasmagorical inamorata prognostication engine. Key decisions have been made, interesting developments ha...
Karen Lin
Apr 23,2014
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At the outset of this blog, let me make full disclosure. I used to work for one of the companies that I mention in this article. Also, my current employer was spun off from, and still has a business a...
Karen Lin
Apr 22,2014
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Every time I have seen (or written) a comment that is even vaguely critical of industry in China, there seems to be an avalanche of responses in its defence. Often, they fight fire with fire, and so I...
Karen Lin
Apr 22,2014
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Well, it has to be said that this is a rather exciting time -- it's not every day that one gets to see the launch of a new EE Times Designline, especially one as tasty as our new PCB Designline. For ...
Karen Lin
Apr 22,2014
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For the past few weeks, I've been mulling the problem of how to compare and contrast the various printed circuit board (PCB) tools from the different vendors. Now, before we plunge into the fray, le...
Karen Lin
Apr 22,2014
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Over the last few weeks, I've been involved in quite a few online discussions about creating low-cost PCB prototypes. Most of these conversations have involved sending one's design files to a manufact...
Karen Lin
Apr 22,2014
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I was chatting with a friend the other day (yes, I do have friends, thank you very much). This guy knows a bit about electronics, but he's not really involved in depth. When started talking about prin...
Karen Lin
Apr 22,2014
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Flexible PCB (FPCB) and chassis maker Ichia Technologies has reported pre-tax profits of NT$265 million (US$8.82 million) for the first quarter of 2014, nearly double from the previous quarter. First...
Karen Lin
Apr 17,2014
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Some China-based PCB makers, including Founder Technology, Guangdong Goworld and Taigerbuilder Circuit (Suzhou), have entered the supply chains of Apple, Acer and HTC, becoming competitors of Taiwan-b...
Karen Lin
Apr 17,2014
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CHARLOTTE, N.C. The city of Charlotte expects to spend more than $1.3 million to clean PCB contamination found in its sewer system.The Charlotte Observer reported (//bit.ly/1gyGvEu) that PCBs traced t...
Karen Lin
Apr 16,2014
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Focusing on core PCB design technology, Altium Designer 14 now supports flex and rigid-flex design, including schematic capture, 3-D PCB layout, analysis, and programmable design—all in a single unifi...
Karen Lin
Apr 16,2014
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Since all the easy/obvious applications are already done what's next in the PCB design front? After all, we have had PC-based PCB layout tools since the late 1980s, and while layer counts have increas...
Karen Lin
Apr 16,2014
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PCB Design Best Practices: Six things to consider when transferring a PCB schematic to layout. All the examples in this article are developed using the NI Multisim design environment, however the sam...
Karen Lin
Apr 16,2014
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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...
Karen Lin
Apr 16,2014
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