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Read ArticleOn Printed Circuit Board Stiffeners - Making the Rigid PCBs Actually Rigid
When the term “Stiff as a board” was coined, they were not talking about printed circuit boards. Resin, fiber, and copper that make up the typical PCB stack-up are all ductile materials.
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Read ArticlePower Supply Design for 12V: Challenges and EMI Reduction Tips
Power supply design for 12v electronics maintains traditional power supply design requirements and vulnerabilities.
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Read ArticleDesigning a Flex PCB Prototype: PCB Design Tips and Considerations
Designing a flex PCB prototype will test your ability for layout with time and material constraints, as well as require cost considerations.
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Read ArticleBGA Design in 4 layer PCBs: Circuit Routing and Pin Limitations
Ball grid arrays or BGAs in 4 layer PCBs can be difficult to rout and manage adequate transmission voltage with, here are design tips that can help.
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Read ArticleKeys to Success with Your PCB CAD Parts Library
If you want more information on what your PCB CAD parts library does and how you can better work with it, take a look here at some of these ideas.
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Read ArticleIt’s About Time - Clocking a PCB Design
Clocks are essential gatekeepers of the digital domain. Setting the pace for all that follows the clock can be a single trace or a partnership of two traces that carry complementary signals.
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Read ArticleWhat’s the Differential? Mastering the Art of the Differential Pair
You see, it’s like this. When two circuits love each other very much, they form a life-long bond and then little Diffs are propagated. Not really, but when we peruse the net names attached to the...
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Read ArticleThe Nuts and Bolts of a Via Padstack
From the first plated through-hole to the latest, the trend is to support higher density interconnect. The key driver in plating holes is the aspect ratio, the hole’s width over depth.
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Read ArticleLinear Sweep Voltammetry for Batteries and Regulator Design
Linear sweep voltammetry and cyclic voltammetry measurements are critical for examining battery operating ranges and designing charging systems.
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Read ArticleSelective Laser Sintering (SLS) and How It Works in Electronics Manufacturing
Selective laser sintering is a process used in PCB manufacturing to try and speed up and add cost efficiency to an additive manufacturing workflow.
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Read ArticleWhat Are The Advantages Of Rigid Flex PCB
Rigid flex PCBs can have advantages ranging far and wide from easing enclosure and mechanical constraints to improving manufacturing yields.
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Read ArticleForce and Pressure Sensors with Piezoelectric Load Cell Transducers
Piezoelectric load cell transducers provide high sensitivity measurements with broad range and low threshold.
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Read ArticleChoosing Schematic Grid Sizes to Increase Your Design Productivity
To create complex schematics, you need a lot of control over your design environment including choosing schematic grid sizes. Here is more about that.
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Read ArticleDefining Design Intent in PCB Design CAD Tools
If you’ve got an action plan for your PCB design, then you’re on your way to defining design intent. But there may be more to design intent than you realize.
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Read ArticleWorking with Standardized IEEE 315-1975 E-CAD Symbols
PCB schematics can be complex and difficult to read, especially if non-standard symbols are used on it. Here’s how using a standard like IEEE 315-1975 can help.
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Read ArticleTarget Impedance Values in PDN Design
Working through your target impedance values for a power delivery network is important to ensure your device can function at full capacity at all times.
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Read ArticlePCB Design for Laser Flash Analysis in Manufacturing
By understanding Laser Flash Analysis in manufacturing you can design for optimized board build. In this blog, we show you how.
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Read ArticleWorking with STEP Enclosure Models in PCB Design
With STEP enclosure models giving the PCB designer access to mechanical design features inside of the layout tools, there are fewer PCB design mistakes.
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Read ArticleLayout Tips for Flex PCB Design
Working with flex PCB designs has some unique differences from a regular PCB layout. If this is new for you, here is some information that may help you.
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Read ArticleUnderstanding Grid Basics in PCB Design
Grid basics for PCB design will help you to maintain a better design flow when laying out your circuit board for electronic production.
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