PCB Glossary

Branched Conductor

A conductor which connects electrically two or more leads on a printed board assembly. Some branched conductors, no...

Branched Conductor

PCB Glossary

Bow

The deviation from the flatness of a board characterized by a roughly cylindrical or spherical curvature. If the&nb...

Bow

PCB Glossary

Boundary Scan

A self-test designed into components at the silicon level, permitting testing via a built-in, four-or-five-pin test bus&...

Boundary Scan

PCB Glossary

Border Data

Patterns that appear in the border area, such as tooling features, test patterns and registration marks.

Border Data

PCB Glossary

Bonding Time

The duration from hot-bar-heat-up (contact with lead and pad ) until the solder joint is completed.

Bonding Time

PCB Glossary

Bonding Layer

An adhesive layer used in bonding together other discrete layers of multi-layer printed board during lamination.

Bonding Layer

PCB Glossary

Bond Strength:

The force perpendicular to a board’s surface required to separate two adjacent layers of the board, expressed as&nb...

Bond Strength:

PCB Glossary

Bond Lift-off

A failure condition in which a lead is separated from its bonding surface.

Bond Lift-off

PCB Glossary

Bond Interface

The common area between a lead and a land to which it has been terminated.

Bond Interface

PCB Glossary

Body

The portion of an electronic component exclusive of its pins or leads.

Body

PCB Glossary

Board Thickness

The overall thickness of the base material and all conductive materials deposited thereon.

Board Thickness

PCB Glossary

Board Density

A measure of the ratio of the area of the board used by parts to the total available area of the&nbs...

Board Density

PCB Glossary

Blutter Coat

An external layer of resin over the reinforcing structure of base material.

Blutter Coat

PCB Glossary

Bluetooth

Bluetooth is a short-range (up to 10m) 2.4GHz wireless connectivity standard intended for such applications as wireless&...

Bluetooth

PCB Glossary

Blow Hole

A void in the solder fillet caused by outgassing from the barrel of a plated through hole.(see also outgassing...

Blow Hole

PCB Glossary

Blistering

A localized swelling and separation between any of the layers of a laminated base material, or between base ma...

Blistering

PCB Glossary

Blister

De-lamination in the form of a localized swelling and separation between any of the Layers of a lamination bas...

Blister

PCB Glossary

Blind Via

A via that reaches only one layer beneath the outer layer on one side of a muti-layer board.

Blind Via

PCB Glossary

Bleeding

A condition in which liquid solder resist or rotation spreads larger than the defined apperture.

Bleeding

PCB Glossary

Biscuit Frame

An array of circuits on a larger “mother” panel.

Biscuit Frame

1 ... 43 44 45 46 47 48 49 50 51 52 53 ...
Ranking Name Answers
Back to top