Karen Lin May 08,2014 1380

A Guide to Checking PCBs

Have you ever been left feeling hopeless when you realise your board has some major flaw after sending it off to be manufactured? Or worse yet, after you receive the board? Well, nothing can prevent t...

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Karen Lin May 08,2014 1364

Capacitive Touch Sense on PCBs

Ever heard of capacitive touch sensing? It operates on a fairly simple principle: the human body can store charge. Touch an electrode on your board, which can also store charge, and you effectively ch...

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Karen Lin May 08,2014 1817

Vital PCB Design Tips and Tricks

So, you have a design for an amazing circuit, perhaps even tested it on a breadboard, and you’re thinking of building a more permanent solution on a custom printed circuit board… but wait! Before you ...

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Karen Lin May 08,2014 2984

Tips about printed circuit board design: Dealing with harmful PCB effects

Printed circuit boards (PCBs) are by far the most common method of assembling modern electronic circuits. Composed of a sandwich of insulating layer (or layers) and one or more copper conductor patter...

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Karen Lin May 08,2014 1821

PCB Design Guideline

Designing a matching printed circuit board (PCB) can be a challenge for many electronics enthusiasts. To help ease the process, Circuit Cellar and Elektor editors compiled a list of tips for laying ou...

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Karen Lin May 07,2014 1081

Create PCBs with the direct toner method

A simple and fast method to create PCBs without the exposure step. Instead of photo-resist, toner of a laserprinter is used as etch-resist. Material:•Laser printer (i use a HP laserjet 1010)&#...

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Karen Lin May 07,2014 941

Isola Adds PCB Certification

Ray Sharpe, President and CEO of Isola, stated, “We are pleased to roll-out this certification program following the initial success with APCT. During the qualification process, APCT successfully manu...

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Karen Lin May 07,2014 997

Altium relocates core R&D and PCB CAD division to the US

Altium Limited intends to begin a corporate reorganisation to best serve the needs of their customers and partners in key growth markets.This includes the relocation of the PCB CAD Division and its co...

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Karen Lin May 07,2014 1364

IPC: N.A. PCB Book-to-Bill Shows Positive Growth

IPC — Association Connecting Electronics Industries® has announced the March findings from its monthly North American Printed Circuit Board (PCB) Statistical Program. Sales were up in March and th...

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Karen Lin May 07,2014 1388

BPA: China's Demand for PCBs, Laminates on the Rise

BPA use growth rates to forecast the near and medium term future prospects of the world's PCB and laminate industry. We track the demand for semiconductors which are in many instances aproximately 25%...

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Karen Lin May 06,2014 1406

Simple PCB Design Tips

During my PCB design experience of around seven years, I have learnt some very simple tips to better PCB design irrespective of the EDA tool used. Here are these: 1.Use existing libraries as much as ...

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Karen Lin May 06,2014 1177

IPC PCB Industry Results 2014

IPC — Association Connecting Electronics Industries® announced the March findings from its monthly North American Printed Circuit Board (PCB) Statistical Program. Sales were up in March and the bo...

PCB Industry，printed circuit board

Karen Lin May 06,2014 1207

Taiwan PCB suppliers ramping HDI boards

Taiwan-based PCB suppliers, including Unimicron Technology, Compeq Manufacturing and Unitech Printed Circuit Board, have ramped up the capacity utilization rates of their HDI board production lines si...

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Karen Lin May 06,2014 1293

North American PCB Book-to-Bill Ratio Turns Positive

IPC — Association Connecting Electronics Industries announced today the Marchfindings from its monthly North American Printed Circuit Board (PCB) Statistical Program.Sales were up in March andthe book...

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Karen Lin May 06,2014 1219

Fineline Enhances Euro Support as Key Viasystems' Rep

Fineline Global Ltd., a global supplier of PCBs, has entered into an agreement with the Viasystems family of companies to become a key Viasystems' European Representative. The agreement is a significa...

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Karen Lin May 05,2014 1043

Tips for Designing PCBs

> These tips are not specific to using our CAD software, but instead provide an overview to help explain how to position the components on the board and how to wire them together. Placing Component...

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Karen Lin May 05,2014 1945

PCB layout tips for thermal vias

I came across an article on PCB layout in Electronic Design magazine. It’s a pretty good article and I am glad to see the trade magazines realize we care as much about PCB layout as the bus-caching ar...

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Karen Lin May 05,2014 1698

Tips on how to properly design/layout a Printed Circuit Board (PCB)

Make important nodes accessibleIt will eventually happen that you are trying to figure out why something is not working and you want to measure a signal inside your PCB. Before designing the PCB, you ...

Printed Circuit Board (PCB) PCB design/layout

Karen Lin May 05,2014 1424

Conversations with...IPC's Sharon Starr

IPC’s 2012-2013 Analysis & Forecast for the North American PCB Industry report has just been published so I thought it would be a good idea to sit down with Sharon Starr, director of market resear...

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Karen Lin May 05,2014 1169

What Onshoring Means for North America

The 2013 update to the study, On-Shoring in the Electronics Industry: Trends and Outlook for North America, published by IPC — Association Connecting Electronics Industries, confirms that companies ha...

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