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As pedestrian as it may seem, power delivery on the PCB and in advanced packages remains one of the biggest challenges facing designers, particularly in environments like data center, edge computing, mobile devices, and telecom/networking. Massive amounts of data are being moved through extremely high data rate channels in these environments, and as much as we focus on signal integrity, none of these systems will work without stable power. Power...

The first time you fire up on a new circuit board project can be both exciting and nerve-wracking at the same time. On the one hand, it's an opportunity to bring your creation to life. But, on the other hand, mistakes in this phase can damage the board or its components and ruin weeks or even months of work. {"preview_thumbnail":"/sites/default/files/styles/video_embed_wysiwyg_preview/public/video_thumbnails/M1B4t4Ukrwk.jpg?itok=3yuUNYiN","video...

The printed circuit board industry is all abuzz about the CHIPS Act, as it should be.  There are also many advocating for the CHIPS Act to include package substrate technology and ultra-high density interconnect technology.  I couldn’t agree more!  We need to look at the full supply chain for this endeavor to be successful.  There has been a lot of activity around the ultra-HDI technology: fabricators are now easily providing trace width and...

Let’s set the scene: you finished your PCB layout and sent the board off for fabrication. After successful fabrication, the board is sent off to an assembly facility, and the assembler is preparing your PCB for wave/reflow soldering. While preparing the board, they discover that one of your footprints is incorrect, and a component can’t be mounted to the PCB! Sometimes, footprints end up being incorrect, and they simply aren’t caught in a design...

In this episode, we are very excited to have Jesus Zozaya, CEO of Voltera, and Matt Ewertowski, product manager at Voltera. We will discuss pushing the boundaries in electronics design through printed electronics. Join us and together let’s discover the many benefits of printed electronics from expedited prototyping, proof of concept, and academic research. Listen to Podcast: Download this episode (right-click and save) Watch the Video: ...

Click here to jump to the viewer embed and browse this project If your board includes an ADC, then your board qualifies as a mixed-signal system and it will need some particular layout practices to prevent excess noise on analog lines. ADCs are normally non-isolated components, but they also come in an isolated variety, where the component provides galvanic isolation between the analog and digital sides. In this project, I’m going to show an...

Travis Kelly, President, and CEO of Isola Group returns to continue the conversation on the CHIPS Act. In this episode, we will focus on North America's and neighboring countries' readiness and technological capability to build a resilient and secure domestic supply chain. We will also briefly discuss some initiatives to attract the young generation and to bring awareness to the “cool” technology behind the PCB industry. Listen to Podcast: D...

Printed circuit board designers have an exciting new tool to use to help solve complicated routing challenges.  Fabricators serving the low to medium-volume, high-mix markets are now offering Ultra-HDI technology,  fabricating circuit layers with semi-additive processes.  This gives PCB designers a number of key benefits:  the ability to route with 25-micron trace and space with highly precise traces, the ability to use larger feature sizes with...

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