Karen Lin May 22,2014 2087

Use Embedded Components To Improve PCB Performance And Reduce Size

Embedding discrete components within a PCB substrate is still considered cutting-edge, but advances in fabrication and EDA software have this technology on the rise. The complexity and density of ele...

PCB substrate printed-circuit board (PCB)

Karen Lin May 21,2014 1441

Prototron Names Al Fisher Inside Sales Manager

Dave Ryder, president of Prototron Circuits of Redmond, Washington and Tucson, Arizona, has announced the appointment of industry veteran Al Fisher to the newly-created position of inside sales manage...

PCB industry printed circuit board

Karen Lin May 20,2014 1534

Rapid Prototyping of Printed Circuit Boards at AFCEA West

LPKF Laser & Electronics has announced it will exhibit at AFCEA West 2014, which takes place February 11-13 at the San Diego Convention Center in San Diego, Calif. LPKF provides in-house rapid PCB...

Printed Circuit Boards，PCB prototyping

Karen Lin May 20,2014 1342

Printed Circuit Board Prototyping at EE Live! 2014

Among the highlights at EE Live! 2014 will be a printed circuit board prototyping demonstration put on by LPKF Laser & Electronics in booth 937. LPKF, which manufactures in-house PCB prototyping ...

Printed Circuit Board PCB Prototyping

Karen Lin May 20,2014 1141

Aspocomp strengthens sales organisation

Mr. Helmut Mayer has been appointed as a Senior Sales Manager in Germany.Helmut Mayer comes with a long experience in printed circuit boards. He has been working at various management positions at dif...

PCB supply PCB manufacturers

Karen Lin May 19,2014 1730

European PCB Industry Background

The PCB fabrication industry is a key supplier to a wide range of EU-based electronics assemblers, systems manufacturers and end-users across many strategically important industry sectors, all of whom...

PCB Industry PCB fabrication pcb board

Karen Lin May 19,2014 1916

Minimize crosstalk with optimized PCB routing technique

I. IntroductionToday, there are a number of high speed digital communication protocols applied in portable computing devices with compact PCB dimensions. Protocols such as PCIe, USB, and SATA have dat...

PCB routing printed circuit board

Karen Lin May 16,2014 1407

Striking a Balance Amid Risks in PCB Material Usage

Formed after a successful management buyout of Viasystems’ Special Products Group in 2001, Invotec Group has become one of the leading quick-turn PCB providers and one of the top 10 PCB companies (by ...

PCB Material quick-turn PCB printed circuit board

Karen Lin May 16,2014 1341

FTG Secures LTA for PCBs for Wing Platforms Use

Firan Technology Group Corporation has been awarded a new three year Long Term Agreement (LTA) from one of the leading global OEMs supporting the aerospace market. The agreement incorporates a variety...

high-technology PCB printed circuit board

Karen Lin May 16,2014 1407

German PCB Market Up 4% in March

March PCB sales in Germany were up by 5.2% compared to the same period last year, and up by 4% from last month, according to the Central Association of the PCB and Electronic Systems. Incoming orders...

PCB Market printed circuit board

Karen Lin May 15,2014 1232

PCB Materials Application Continue To Make Breakthroughs

To find the ideal balance between circuit board cost and performance for a given application. Let’s start at the beginning. The most common PCB fabrication material is FR-4. It is cost-effective, high...

PCB Material，printed circuit board

Karen Lin May 15,2014 1375

HARTING Announces Distributor Awards, New Products

HARTING, the global pace-setter in industrial and device connectivity, is front and center at EDS once again, announcing its annual distributor awards and rolling out new, leading edge products for PC...

PCB design，printed circuit board

Karen Lin May 14,2014 1244

Schweizer increased revenues by 18%

During the first quarter, Schweizer Electronic AG achieved sales revenues of 27.8 million Euro (previous year 23.6 million Euro), which is a turnover increase of 18% against last year’s period. The r...

PCB design printed circuit board

Karen Lin May 14,2014 1366

AT&S looks back on a successful financial year 2013/14

AT&S Group’s sales for the financial year 2013/14 reached EUR 590m, an increase of around 9% on the previous year’s total (2012/13: approx. EUR 542m). Earnings before interest, tax, depreciation ...

printed circuit boards PCB board

Karen Lin May 14,2014 1349

Invotec Group strengthens in Germany

PCB manufacturer, Invotec Group, has appointed Thomas Witt and Monika Braun as Sales Agent and Sales Assistant for Germany. Thomas joins the company with experience as a Sales Account Manager, primar...

PCB manufacturer PCB industry

Karen Lin May 14,2014 1261

MMAB gets new CEO

Swedish PCB manufacturer Malmö Mönsterkort AB has appointed a new CEO. After seven years as CEO Ola Eriksson has decided to leave the position to Jonas Wackerfeldt, with previous experience...

PCB manufacturer printed circuit board

Karen Lin May 13,2014 2299

Understanding PCB Manufacturing: Hard Gold Plating

Plating Hard Gold onto printed circuit boards is typically done to provide contact points and PCB edge connectors.Gold contact surfaces are often used on circuit boards with membrane switches which ar...

PCB Manufacturing printed circuit board

Karen Lin May 13,2014 1343

PCB Assembly and Production Process

PCB Assembly and Production Process- an overview of the PCB assembly process involved in building a surface mount technology (SMT) board using pick and place techniques. Within a printed circuit boar...

PCB Assembly PCB Production Process

Karen Lin May 12,2014 1100

PCB Manufacture Step by Step

The board designer has prepared his layout on a Computer Aided Design or CAD system. Each CAD system uses its own internal data format, so the PCB industry has developed a standard output format to tr...

PCB Manufacture printed circuit board

Karen Lin May 12,2014 1445

Scientists develop new circuit board modeled on human brain

The Neurogrid circuit board can simulate orders of magnitude more neurons and synapses than other brain mimics on the power it takes to run a tablet computer. Stanford scientists have developed a new...

circuit board printed circuit board