Design Reliability

Read our guide to learn about standing wave patterns on your electrical transmission lines and interconnects.

These PCB design principles help beginners ensure design reliability and manufacturability for their PCB designs. Learn how to put them into practice.

When designing a PCB, it is important to use design for reliability (DfR) concepts to avoid PCB failures and unreliability. Read on to learn how to implement these concepts.

What are the most common PCB design standards and why does your design need to comply with them? Let us show you the answers and more.

Understanding the IPC standard for PCB layout designs is the first step to creating reliable and manufacturable designs.

Manufacturing a PCB has both incoming and in-process inspection checkpoints along the way to a complete product

There is more than one way to examine how the transmission line reflection coefficient affects your signals.

There is an easy way to spot oscillations—just look for a harmonic potential in your circuits.

Learn how to reduce stray capacitance in electronic circuits, how it occurs, and strategies to avoid it to ensure performance in your high-speed designs.

How do you remove parasitic capacitance in a circuit? One of the steps is increasing the clearance between conductors. Find out what else works in the article.

The half-wave potential can be seen in a cyclic voltammetry scan and it has significance when monitoring electrochemical reactions.

If you’re not taking a proactive approach to VRM cooling, the power delivered to the CPU and GPU will be compromised and affect their performance.

Electronics deteriorate over time, making the ability to plan and execute for total electronics maintenance important for PCB designers.

Silicone conformal coatings are a specific conformal coating type ideal for use at high temperatures and with flexible PCBs.

PCB DFM guidelines help manufacturers find design problems that might not be explicitly classified as errors.

Embedded electronics are an increasingly vital part of modern technology—learn how they are projected to grow in the next decade.

When designing boards for fast-scan cyclic voltammetry, it is essential to follow the considerations given in this blog.

Waterproofing electronics materials is a great way of protecting them from moisture. Here are some of the most popular methods.