PCB ADC Layout for Accuracy: Where the Reference Goes Electronics manufacturing has become a discipline of small details. Solder paste volumes, placement accuracy, temperature profiles and inspection limits all add up to the final result. This guide looks at PCB ADC layout for accuracy from the perspective of a PCBA…

PCB Op Amp Layout: Keeping the Input Quiet Electronics manufacturing has become a discipline of small details. Solder paste volumes, placement accuracy, temperature profiles and inspection limits all add up to the final result. This guide looks at PCB op amp layout from the perspective of a PCBA factory floor,…

PCB Isolated Current Measurement: Reading Without a Common Ground Buyers and engineers often focus on the finished product and forget the production line behind it. In practice, most field failures can be traced back to process decisions made during assembly. Understanding PCB isolated current measurement gives you a practical advantage…

PCB Fuse Selection: Choosing the Right Blow Buyers and engineers often focus on the finished product and forget the production line behind it. In practice, most field failures can be traced back to process decisions made during assembly. Understanding PCB fuse selection gives you a practical advantage when you choose…

PCB TVS Diode Selection: Protecting the Input Buyers and engineers often focus on the finished product and forget the production line behind it. In practice, most field failures can be traced back to process decisions made during assembly. Understanding PCB TVS diode selection gives you a practical advantage when you…

Small Batch SMT Assembly With Fast Changeover During development and the pilot stage a customer usually needs a small quantity assembled for functional verification, for testing, or for a limited release into the market. The requirements are not the same as those of a volume order: what matters is how…

Medical Electronics Development and Certification Support Medical equipment places demands on a design that consumer products do not. The function has to be correct, but it also has to be safe for the person using it, immune to interference from everything around it, and stable over years rather than months.…

PCB Common Mode Choke Design: Stopping What Travels Together Electronics manufacturing has become a discipline of small details. Solder paste volumes, placement accuracy, temperature profiles and inspection limits all add up to the final result. This guide looks at PCB common mode choke design from the perspective of a PCBA…

High Frequency Board Manufacturing on Rogers Material Fifth generation mobile networks, satellite links, millimetre wave radar and automotive radar have pushed high frequency circuit boards from a specialist item into a mainstream requirement. A high frequency board differs from an ordinary FR4 board in the material, in the processing and…

PCB Inductor Selection for A Regulator: Picking the Coil Buyers and engineers often focus on the finished product and forget the production line behind it. In practice, most field failures can be traced back to process decisions made during assembly. Understanding PCB inductor selection for a regulator gives you a…