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Recently, I received an excellent question from a YouTube viewer who was asking about differential pair routing and length tuning structures. This question (paraphrased) goes as follows: Do length-tuning structures create an impedance discontinuity? The answer is an unequivocal “yes”, but it might not matter in your design depending on several factors. The single-ended impedance of a trace in a differential pair will depend on the distance to...

What is the current state of the electronic industry? Dan Schoenfelder joins us today to discuss the most extreme problems the PCB design industry is currently facing: supply shortages, particularly the semi-conductor products and microcontrollers. Tune in, or listen on the go. Learn how to keep up with the industry challenges through Nexar and Octopart. Listen to the Podcast: Download this episode (right click and save) Watch the video: ...

What is an H-Bridge circuit and where can they be found? The H-Bridge circuit forms the basis of many power electronics projects such as motor drivers, inverters, and large switching power supplies. Read this extensive article which guides you through the design process of building your own H-Bridge project: — This article will be taking you through the design process of a 100A capable H-Bridge project. We’ll discuss the challenges of working...

Take a look at the inside of some integrated circuit packages, and you’ll find a number of wires bonded to the semiconductor die and the pads at the edge of the component's package. As a signal traverses makes its way along an interconnect and into a destination circuit, signals need to travel across these bond wires and pads before they are interpreted as a logic state. As you look around the edge of an IC, these bond wires can have different...

Learn by doing is what Bill Kolicoski, the creator of Taste the Code Youtube Channel advises everyone who wants to jump into the electronic design. Bill is a software developer passionate about making electronics design and engineering fun. Listen to the Podcast: Download this episode (right click and save) Watch the video: Show Highlights: Bill shares how he got started with his Youtube Channel, Taste the Code Bill recognizes that...

It's no secret that software developers often use completed code fragments from other projects for quick and predictable results. The same can be done for PCB Design, there is no need to spend time rewiring schematics or laying out components on boards you’ve done before. Join us this webinar where we’ll go over how you can use your existing designs to create reusable design blocks, speeding up the design cycle for your future projects. We will...

It's no secret that software developers often use completed code fragments from other projects for quick and predictable results. The same can be done for PCB Design, there is no need to spend time rewiring schematics or laying out components on boards you’ve done before. Join us for this webinar where we’ll go over how you can use your existing designs to create reusable design blocks, speeding up the design cycle for your future projects. We...

It's no secret that software developers often use completed code fragments from other projects for quick and predictable results. The same can be done for PCB Design, there is no need to spend time rewiring schematics or laying out components on boards you’ve done before. Join us this webinar where we’ll go over how you can use your existing designs to create reusable design blocks, speeding up the design cycle for your future projects. We will...

In a previous blog post, we took a 10,000-foot view and went through a basic introduction to SAP (semi-additive process).  This refers to an additional tool in the PCB fabricators' toolbox that enables them to provide feature sizes for trace width and spacing that are 25 microns, (1 mil) and below depending on the fabricators' imaging equipment.  This provides much more flexibility to breakout out tight BGA areas and the ability to shrink overall...