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Read ArticleHardware Development and UX Design: Top Electronics Considerations
Can UX design improve your hardware development? Optimize the PCB development process for your own design processes as well as your future usability.
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Read ArticleHow To Ensure Star Topology Signal Integrity In PCB Design
Utilizing a single bus can affect signal performance. Working through star topology signal integrity requires knowledge of clock skew and reflections.
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Read ArticleTopology Planning and Routing Guidelines for Your Next PCB Layout
Creating a successful printed circuit board design means careful topology planning and routing of sensitive traces. Here are some guidelines that can help.
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Read ArticleHow to Design for Ease of PCB Fabrication
One of the keys to good board design is learning to design for ease of PCB fabrication. Read this blog to see how knowledge of fabrication and DFM can improve your PCB design and manufacturing process
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Read ArticleIoT PCB Design Skill and Expertise Requirements
When designing a PCB for IoT, there are many design skills you’ll need to keep track of differing from traditional circuit boards. Keep them in your mind as you design your product.
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Read ArticleGenerating and Understanding Bode Plots in Filter and Amplifier Design
Some analyses are easier when you work in the frequency domain. Here is how an understanding of Bode plots helps you analyze your circuits.
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Read ArticleSPICE Simulations for Time Domain Analysis of Simple RLC Circuits
With time domain analysis of simple RLC circuits, you can learn plenty about the behavior of an RLC network.
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Read ArticleProduct Development for Electronics and Hardware: Planning for Scaling
DFM principles will get your board produced, but what do you do after your device is successfully working? Here is an introduction to product development process for electronics and hardware.
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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 ArticleBest Practices for Power Planes in Multi-board PCB Design
Without power, the components on your PCB might as well be inert pieces of metal. In order to light a lightbulb, spin a motor, or otherwise perform some action such as maintaining the optimum...
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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 ArticleHow Do Ferrite Beads Work? Key Factors to Consider
Low-Q ferrite beads and high-Q ferrite beads allow design teams to conserve board space while protecting circuits from internal high-frequency interference.
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Read ArticleSurface Mount Technologies and Devices: Pesky Enclosures and Smart Layouts
Surface mount technologies and surface mount devices describe the choices that a design team must make when selecting devices and fabrication methods.
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Read ArticleWorking with Passive and Active Components? Be Sure to Observe Best Practice Design
Passive and active components act differently when exposed to high frequencies. Follow basic techniques to keep parasitic inductance and capacitance out of your circuit design.
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Read ArticleCareful Multilayer PCB Stackup Planning: Your Best Bet to Save Time and Money
As PCB technology increases to accommodate the needs of high speed design signal integrity, you need to carefully consider your multilayer PCB stackup planning.
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Read ArticleSelecting the Right Connectors in Multiboard Design
There are plenty of points to consider when selecting connectors in multiboard design. Frequency and switching speed limitations, temperature, and price are just a few.
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Read ArticleHigh Speed PCB and System Design: Your Top Circuit Board Material Considerations
Before starting your high speed PCB and system design, it is important to choose the best PCB materials that will be used in the fabrication of the board.
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Read ArticleWhy is Impedance Matching Important? Impedance Matching Fundamentals
Follow this step-by-step description of the importance of impedance matching in PCB design and learn about methods for achieving impedance matching.
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Read ArticleUtilizing a Checklist for PCB Design Finalization
Your design goes through many hoops to become a printed circuit board. Don’t let up your rigor before your PCB design finalization is finished.
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