Karen Lin Apr 14,2014 889

IPC: PCB Sales Improving

Bannockburn, Ill. — IPC — Association Connecting Electronics Industries announced today the November findings from its monthly North American Printed Circuit Board (PCB) Statistical Program. Year-on-y...

PCB Sales Printed circuit board

Karen Lin Apr 14,2014 882

IPC: PCB Sales Declined 1.9% in 2013

IPC — Association Connecting Electronics Industries announced today the December findings from its monthly North American Printed Circuit Board (PCB) Statistical Program. PCB sales in 2013 ended the y...

PCB Sales printed circuit board

Karen Lin Apr 14,2014 860

IPC: PCB Shipments Sluggish

IPC — Association Connecting Electronics Industries announced today the January findings from its monthly North American Printed Circuit Board (PCB) Statistical Program. January PCB sales and orders w...

PCB Shipment printed circuit board

Karen Lin Apr 14,2014 1048

Flex PCB Market Set to Grow

Rising labor costs in China as well as currency appreciation hurt the nation’s domestic flexible printed circuit board industry last year, according to the “Global and China FPCB (Flexible Printed cir...

PCB Market printed circuit board

Karen Lin Apr 14,2014 1165

Market update on the PCB industry for Q4 2013

2013 was a - by looking at the facts - a rather good year for the global flexible PCB market, which grew by 9.4% YoY and is valued at approximately EUR 8.26 billion.Printed Circuit Boards (PCB) lie at...

Printed Circuit Boards (PCB) Flexible PCB

Karen Lin Apr 14,2014 1568

PCB and Routing Solutions: Centering Traces in BGA

To increase fabrication yield, it is important to center the traces between the fanout vias inside the BGA area. Large BGAs are usually 1mm pitch and medium sized ones are 0.8mm. Then we go down to 0....

PCB Routing printed circuit board

Karen Lin Apr 11,2014 616

North American PCB book-to-bill ratio nearing parity

Year-on-year sales growth was flat in February, but the book-to-bill ratio strengthened, reports the IPC — Association Connecting Electronics Industries.Total North American PCB shipments decreased 0....

PCB board printed circuit board

Karen Lin Apr 11,2014 915

FPCB Market Expected to Reach $12B in 2014

The global flexible printed circuit board (FPCB) market valued US $11.321 billion with a YoY growth rate of 9.4% in 2013, and will be worth US $12.008 billion in 2014 and US $12.686 billion in 2015. F...

FPCB Market，flex-printed circuit board

Karen Lin Apr 11,2014 1779

Top 10 Free PCB Design Software That You Can Use

Printed circuit boards (PCB) are used in almost all kinds of electronic equipment nowadays. Various software are used in order to design these boards before they are put out for production. These soft...

PCB Design Software，printed circuit board

Karen Lin Apr 11,2014 981

Mentor Graphics Launches New Xpedition Platform to Optimize Advanced PCB Systems Design Productivity

Mentor Graphics Corporation today announced the first phase of a new systems design enterprise platform to address today's printed circuit board (PCB) systems challenges of increased complexity, chang...

pcb board printed circuit board

Karen Lin Apr 11,2014 894

PCB market sees positive start

German PCB manufacturers reported positive sales figures for January 2014. Figures rose 7 percent compared to January 2013.In particular, medium and large-sized companies achieved higher sales numbers...

PCB market，printed circuit board

Karen Lin Apr 11,2014 868

German PCB Market Starts 2014 on Strong Note

January PCB sales in Germany were up by 7% year-on-year, according to the Central Association of the PCB and Electronic Systems. Revenue per working day was 19% above the average of the year 2013. Or...

German PCB Market，printed circuit board

Karen Lin Apr 11,2014 898

PCB design tool reaches new performance level

The Xpedition PCB design platform is said to significantly simplify and accelerate development of the most challenging layouts by combining an intuitive design environment with designer-driven automat...

PCB design tool，printed circuit board

Karen Lin Apr 11,2014 850

Nordson YESTECH to Debut FX-940 Inline PCB Inspection System with 3D Inspection Capability at APEX

Mar 25, 2014 Nordson YESTECH debuted its FX-940 AOI Inline PCB inspection system in Booth #2025 at the upcoming IPC APEX EXPO, scheduled to take place March 25-27, 2014 at the Mandalay Bay Resort &amp...

printed circuit board，PCB board

Karen Lin Apr 11,2014 1118

Protecting your PCB from ESD: Make your list and check it twice

I hope you were sufficiently inspired by last week’s discussion on preventing electrostatic discharge (ESD)-related fails to check your PCB and make sure you aren’t guilty of making a board with ESD ‘...

pcb board printed circuit board

Karen Lin Apr 11,2014 1120

PCB Layout Tricks—striped capacitors and more

I posed a question a couple of weeks ago regarding film capacitors—what’s the meaning of the stripe on one end? Check the picture below. These are non-polarized capacitors so it’s not a polarity mark...

PCB Layout Tricks printed circuit board

Karen Lin Apr 10,2014 1243

PCB Thermal Design

Complete PCB thermal design verification almost 3-times fasterMechanical engineers are turning to Mentor’s PCB thermal analysis software to facilitate collaboration and ensure thermal problems are sol...

PCB design printed circuit board

Karen Lin Apr 10,2014 1035

PCB and Routing Solutions: Introduction

My name is Charles Pfeil and my role at Mentor Graphics is one in which I always have a primary focus on routing technology and methods – although I do get involved in numerous other projects. I began...

PCB Routing printed circuit board

Karen Lin Apr 10,2014 1596

Printed Circuit Board (PCB) Industry Reports

Trends in North American Flexible Circuit Book-to-Bill Ratio The monthly North American PCB Market Report provides timely data on PCB market size, sales and order growth, book-to-bill ratios and near...

Printed Circuit Board (PCB) PCB Industry

Karen Lin Apr 10,2014 1359

Dirt Cheap Dirty Boards Offers Dirt Cheap PCB Fab

When your project is ready to build, it’s time to find a PCB manufacturer. There are tons of them out there, but for prototype purposes cheaper is usually better. [Ian] at Dangerous Prototypes has jus...

PCB Fab printed circuit board