Successful PCB grounding with mixed-signal chips - Part 2: Design to minimize signal-path crosstalk
When we began this series, we observed that board-level designers often have concerns about the proper way to handle grounding for integrated circuits that have separate analog and digital grounds. ...
Sigrity I/O planner spans IC, package, and PCB
This week introduced OrbitIO Planner, a tool for dynamic I/O planning across IC, package, and PCB (printed-circuit-board) design. To date, the company has offered tools for IC, package and PCB power a...
PCB debuts high-temperature preamp for vehicle testing
Designed to overcome the high-temperature testing challenges associated with noise, vibration, and harshness (NVH) powertrain and vehicle underhood testing, the Automotive Sensors division of PCB Piez...
Offensive channels: overcoming obstacles in PCB traces, vias, IC pins, and cables
Signal-integrity measurements are essential to the development of high-speed communications systems. The higher a signal’s frequency, the more susceptible it is to degradation. Digital signals, especi...
TDR: taking the pulse of signal integrity
TDR (time-domain-reflectometry) measurements can provide a direct representation of the signal integrity of a cable or PCB (printed-circuit-board) trace and can analyze ICs’ performance and failure. A...
PCB rolls out accelerometers for NVH applications
The PCB Automotive Sensors division of PCB Piezotronics has introduced a series of triaxial ICP accelerometers with low temperature coefficient for powertrain development, NVH (noise, vibration, and h...
PCB layout considerations for non-isolated switching power supplies
IntroductionThe best news when you power up a prototype supply board for the very first time is when it not only works, but also runs quiet and cool. Unfortunately, this does not always happen. A comm...
Global PCB industry sales of about $60.3 billion in 2012
According to the world of electronic circuit board WECC each association report the situations and global electronic circuit expert investigation statistics, the global PCB industry in 2012 were the p...
Who can good PCB copy board this "double-edged sword"?
PCB copy board is associated with the application of reverse engineering in domestic intellectual property development and the rise of the emerging industry, is not a new thing in China. Initially, be...
PCB terminals in China's market development space to improve
PCB terminals we can almost see electronic equipment is inseparable from it, electronic watches, calculator, general computer, small to big to the computer, communication electronic equipment, militar...
Altium's 3-D PCB toolset eases rigid-flex design
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...
A new chapter of Chinese PCB copy board technology upgrade compose era
Even the recent problems about "foreign brands" appear a bunch, apple poor after-sale complaints, vw safety worries... But does not reduce consumer's liking to its. Behind this we have to admit that t...
PCB Piezotronics torque sensor tackles powertrain testing
The Automotive Sensors Division of PCB Piezotronics offers the Series 5300D TORKDISC, an in-line rotary torque sensor system for automotive engine, powertrain, and chassis dynamometer testing. Onboard...
DesignSpark PCB Version 5.0 features online design rule checking and buses
RS Components has unveiled the latest release of DesignSpark PCB, the company's professional software for schematic capture and PCB layout. DesignSpark PCB Version 5.0 integrates two additional featu...
Six tips for better TDR measurements
Signal speeds and devices continue to get faster and operating voltages continue to fall, placing ever increasing demands on signal and power integrity. If you haven’t already been measuring PCB trace...
In the next few years China PCB production will be 45% -50% of the world.
China's printed circuit industry association (CPCA) vice President and secretary general Wang Longji 14 in "2013 Shanghai international informationization expo news TongQiHui" said, "because of the gr...
Exploring China's PCB industry healthy development
China's printed circuit industry association, vice director of the clean and environmental protection branch of CPCA Chen Rongxian In recent decades, we have printed circuit board industry in China f...
PCB standards should adjust measures to local conditions
In some measure, China's PCB industry standard is higher than Europe and the United States and Japan several times or even dozens of times, but the effect is not good. Why this happens? It is worth th...
Circuit board plotter leverages UV laser
The ProtoMat D104 circuit board plotter from German manufacturer LPKF performs mechanical and laser machining in one system, carving circuit tracks out of fully coated base materials by negative conto...
Japanese currency devaluation PCB wafer impact large passive components
Japanese currency devaluation, the Asian economies are joy and sorrow mixed, weakness in the Japanese yen and drive the Japanese stocks of insuring the at the same time, Asian stock markets were motiv...
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