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Read ArticleCommon DFM “Gotchas”
Technical questions that you should solve before you share your data with the factory.
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Read ArticleThe Part Shortage Chronicles
When the Parts Run Out, Make A Friend and Make Your Quarter.
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Read ArticleNailing the PCB Designer Interview
Job searches can be a nerve-racking process. You want the right job with the right people in the right place doing the right things. Right?
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Read Article40Gb/s Since When?
Let me tell you about when 40G really meant something. A big customer (rhymes with Disco) set up a demonstration in our assembly area where they simulated the web traffic enabled by this...
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Read ArticleAdvanced Driver Assistance Systems
Advanced Driver Assistance Systems (ADAS) is a fairly new term that encompasses modern safety equipment in our cars and trucks.
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Read ArticleThe Secret Language of the Printed Circuit Board Designer
The PCB Designer position is a hub where a lot of abstract and concrete information is funneled into a physical product. The boards start with the inspiration of an inventor.
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Read ArticleShorts and Cuts: Post-fabrication Logic Changes
Circuits are usually developed with a few unknowns at the start. Future price and availability of key components is a typical day-one risk. The wise designer leaves themselves some room to...
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Read ArticleDesign Reuse Within a PCB Layout and Beyond
As PCB Designers, we are often tasked with filling out a board with geometry that repeats itself. Better physical resemblance usually equals better performance.
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Read ArticleECOs Made Easy
It all starts with rev 1 for prototypes and rev A for release to production. In any case, we release the most elegant design possible in the limited time we have to hit a market window.
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Read ArticleCan You Afford to Skip the CAM Process When You Tape Out a Printed Circuit Board?
You may have seen the advertising already. Some PCB fab shops will provide a quotation based on a questionnaire that details the pertinent factors...
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Read ArticleMy Favorite Component - How to Succeed With Switch Mode Power Supplies.
What’s the secret sauce for mobility? Not wasting a milliamp-hour of that precious battery power. In a marketing breakthrough, we can start with 2000 milliamp-hours instead of just two amp-hours...
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Read ArticleHow the Role of a PCB Designer Changes With the Size of the Company
Board design is board design, right? In terms of polygons and traces, it’s the same process but the approach you have to take is quite different from start-up to tech-giant.
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Read ArticleThe Designer’s Guide to PCB Solder Defects
The Designer’s Guide to PCB Solder Defects During the inspection process you notice that some passive components aren’t sitting quite right. It seems as though they have pivoted up to stand at...
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Read ArticleBaby Steps to Self-Driving-Cars
Baby Steps to Self-Driving-Cars Image credit: Velodyne Lidar Most of us spend a good bit of time getting from place to place. Turning driving into work-time would add billions of productive...
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Read ArticleBaby Steps to Self-Driving-Cars
Most of us spend a good bit of time getting from place to place. Turning driving into work-time would add billions of productive hours to our collective lives. Work-time can be defined in many ways...
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Read ArticleNotes on Spacing
Notes From the Board Room: On Spacing A lot of what we do as PCB Designers is focused on the metal circuit pattern. So imagine drawing on a canvas with just a pencil and by the end completely...
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Read ArticleThe Best Pep-Talk I Ever Had, (and four more worth remembering)
Image credit: The State Hornet The Best Pep-Talk I Ever Had, (and four more worth remembering) As we go through our days on the job, little nuggets of wisdom or motivation come our way....
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Read ArticleA Dive Into The Flux
We don’t often think about flux. “We” meaning most people. That said, it would be hard to picture modern civilization without it. The egg-heads at Merriam Webster say that...
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Read ArticleNotes On Schematic Capture
Component libraries are fundamental for designing PCBs. The physical symbol of the footprint for the PCB layout and the electrical symbol for the schematic are married...
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Read ArticleNotes on Near Field Communications
NFC is a touch-and-go standard for sharing a few packets of data with another device that is in close proximity. How close? Centimeters. The small broadcast and...
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