Karen Lin May 13,2014 2748

PCB Assembly and Production Process

PCB Assembly and Production Process- an overview of the PCB assembly process involved in building a surface mount technology (SMT) board using pick and place techniques. Within a printed circuit boar...

PCB Assembly PCB Production Process

Karen Lin May 13,2014 3336

PCB Manufacturing Processes

PCBs Manufacturing Process A PCB is used to connect electronic components electrically. This is done by making conductive path ways for circuit connections by etching tracks from copper sheet laminat...

PCB Manufacturing printed circuit board

Karen Lin May 13,2014 3991

Recycle old PCB components

*Updated This instructables will show you how to recycle, by desoldering, all your old pcb's (Printed Circuit Board) components. You can find PCB in almost every electronic devices (DVD, computer, cam...

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Karen Lin May 12,2014 2232

PCB Manufacture Step by Step

The board designer has prepared his layout on a Computer Aided Design or CAD system. Each CAD system uses its own internal data format, so the PCB industry has developed a standard output format to tr...

PCB Manufacture printed circuit board

Karen Lin May 12,2014 2956

Scientists develop new circuit board modeled on human brain

The Neurogrid circuit board can simulate orders of magnitude more neurons and synapses than other brain mimics on the power it takes to run a tablet computer. Stanford scientists have developed a new...

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Karen Lin May 12,2014 2219

Testing The Efficiency Of PCB Etchants

In the interest of the scientific method [Feynmaniac] (great name, btw) over on Instructables has posted a little experiment on something we all, no doubt, care about: putting PCB traces in copper cla...

PCB Etchant printed circuit board

Karen Lin May 12,2014 1825

China PCB makers stepping into IC substrate sector

China-based PCB maker Shennan Circuits has begun small-volume production of wirebond substrates with mass production to start in the third quarter of 2014. Fellow company Founder PCB will also step in...

China PCB maker printed circuit board

Karen Lin May 12,2014 3289

Circuit Board 'Brain': Are We Ready for 'Transcendence'?

Bioengineers at Stanford University have modeled a circuit board after the human brain. There is still a long way to go before it will be as big, powerful, and efficient as an actual brain, but it's s...

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PCBWay May 09,2014 18235

PCB Stackup Planning - Simple

Here is the newest version of PCBWay Multi-layer laminated structure.PCB Stackup PlanningThis Application Note details tried and proven techniques for planning high speed Multilayer PCB Stackup config...

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Karen Lin May 09,2014 5947

PCB Panalization - PCB Array Design

Control PCB Fabrication Costs by Thinking About Panel SizesGetting the most for your money in custom printed circuit board manufacturing requires a little up-front knowledge of how they are made. Unf...

PCB Array Design printed circuit board

Karen Lin May 09,2014 16969

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 09,2014 2652

Slight growth in PCB production in 2013

Due to the Christmas holiday season, December sales figures fell for PCB manufacturers. Many customers stopped taking deliveries before year end to show the lowest possible inventory values on Decemb...

PCB production printed circuit board

Karen Lin May 09,2014 2837

Electronic components and assemblies expect moderate growth

The German market for printed circuit boards is forecasted to grow 3.9% in 2014, reaching a value of around EUR 1.43 billion. The semiconductor market will grow by 5.4 percent to EUR 11.2 billion, sa...

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Karen Lin May 08,2014 2964

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 3887

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 3611

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 ...

PCB Design Tips printed circuit board

Karen Lin May 08,2014 6159

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 3924

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 2767

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 07,2014 2014

Isola Adds PCB Certification

Ray Sharpe, President and CEO of Isola, stated, “We are pleased to roll-out this certification program following the initial success with APCT. During the qualification process, APCT successfully manu...

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