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You may notice something different about our search results pages on occasion: Our filters are periodically redesigned to improve usability and make them more intuitive. Here’s a rundown of our current search views and filters. Two Views to Choose From: Price View and Specs View Whenever you perform a search on Octopart, you’ll be taken to one of two search results views: Price View or Specs View. See Figures 1 and 2. With each view, at the...

Looking for a way to reduce time and increase the accuracy of the manual assembly of PCBs? Join us for a transformative session and learn how XVP Photonics achieved these goals with Assembly Assistant! At the webinar, you will learn how Assembly Assistant can help you: Achieve substantial time and cost savings  Enhance product quality Reduce the likelihood of errors  Optimize your electronic manufacturing and new product development Our...

Today we are joined by Dan Beaulieu, founder and owner of Db Management Group. He and Zach chat about the PCB industry's broad marketing trends including how it's stuck in the past, the declining trade show industry, how sales reps can stay relevant, and much more. Listen to the Episode: Download this episode. Watch the Episode: Show Highlights: Intro to Dan Beaulieu Sales & Marketing Stuck in the Past Impacts of the Domestic PCB Base I...

Imagine the terror: you power up your new multi-board system, only to find shorts and opens where you didn’t expect. Suddenly nothing is working as expected, or possibly worse, the boards get a little too hot for their own good. Most multi-board PCB design errors boil down to some variation of “the wrong nets are connected” or “it doesn’t fit in its enclosure” or “the board orientation is wrong,” all of which could result from either mechanical...

Today we are joined by Paul Durand-Estèbe, Lead Electronic Developer at Metyos. He and zach have a fascinating conversation about how Metyos is contributing to the future of wearable medical devices. They focus on Metyos's groundbreaking wearable glucose monitoring tech, the medical field's emergent wearables trend, and much more. Listen to the Episode: Download this episode. Watch the Episode: Show Highlights: Intro Intro to Paul and...

Innovation is driving the demand for smaller, smarter and more versatile devices.  Rigid Flex PCB’s, a technology that combines the best of two worlds – the stability of rigid boards and the flexibility of flexible circuits, pun intended!  Rigid Flex technology offers a compelling array of advantages, while also posing a set of intriguing challenges. In this blog post, we will start with the basic explanation of how this technology differs from...

Circuit boards rarely operate in isolation. Working with projects that house multiple board designs is a growing scenario in the electronics industry. You need to manage the whole system’s connections, resolve conflicts, and update system-child projects. You also need to manage board rotation, alignment, and fitting into enclosures. How do you conquer all of these challenges? There exist several methods to establish the logical (schematic)...

In this episode of the OnTrack Podcast, we have a chat with Benjamin Dannan, defense & aerospace contractor. We talk about power integrity, high amps, quality reports, vendor models, the importance of verification, and much more. Listen to the Episode: Download this episode. Watch the Episode: Show Highlights: Intro Ben's Background Power Integrity Considerations Vendor Models Quality & Accuracy Trust & Verify File Density Challenges Di...

We are continuing the journey through lid assembly design on our Open Source Laptop project. Designing a test adapter — Layout Now we have to put all of our work in an actual hardware design. The layout of this board is straightforward, as we only have one high-speed interface to pay special attention to. The DisplayPort interface can de-skew up to 20UI per specification. UI is short for Unit Interval which is the reciprocal of the bit rate...