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AC to DC Power Supply Design

AC to DC Power Supply Design Mark Harris, an expert PCB designer gives us some pointers to keep in mind when designing your AC to DC power supply. Read it now. Read Article

EMI shielding techniques

EMI Shielding Techniques You Can Use in Your PCB Design Software Electromagnetic interference (EMI) is such a problem that governments around the world have placed limits on the amount of EMI an electronic device is allowed to generate or receive. Your electronic device needs to be designed to prevent unintentional radiation and suppress conducted noise up to a very high frequency value. This is not a simple matter of adding filtering on every circuit in your PCB layout, it’s about considering the entire Read Article

Target impedance

What Target Impedance Should You Use in Your PDN? The target impedance in your PDN can be easily determined by looking at the datasheets for your components. Read Article

PCB power plane mixed-signal PCB layout

Overlapping Planes in Your Mixed-Signal PCB Layout Do you know which planes to overlap in your mixed-signal PCB layout? We’ll dig into these issues with overlapping planes at different potentials. Read Article

WiFi 7 802.11be Standard

Get Ready for WiFi 7 under the 802.11be Standard Are you ready for WiFi 7 capabilities in your new product? Learn more about the newest iteration of WiFi and what to expect from the 802.11be standard. Read Article

SDRAM vs DDR

Using SDRAM vs. DDR RAM in Your PCB Design SDRAM is a slower predecessor to DDR, but you might not need DDR for every application. Here’s how you can compare SDRAM vs DDR for your design. Read Article

pcb testing

PCB Testing 101: Important Methods and Metrics PCB testing must occur during fabrication, assembly, and board bring-up. Here’s how you can plan to be successful during testing and inspection. Read Article

Rugged electronics laptop

What Goes Into Rugged Electronics Design? In this article, we’ll outline some of the common design decisions that go into rugged electronics, as well as some steps you can take to create rugged PCBAs. Read Article

Impedance balancing power supply

Reduce CM Noise in Your Power Supply with Impedance Balancing You can use impedance balancing to reduce conducted common-mode noise in your power supply. Here’s how it works and some experimental results. Read Article

DFM reports

How to Speed Up Your DFM Report Process in the Cloud Make sure your design will be produced with high quality and yield with our DFM analysis guidelines. You’ll want to perform DFM analysis at multiple stages during the design process. Read Article

Antipad diameter IPC APEX 2021

Antipad Diameter, Crosstalk, and IBM’s Results from IPC APEX EXPO 2021 Interlayer crosstalk begins with antipad diameters, and IBM’s results help us see how antipad diameter on back-drilled PTHs affect signal integrity. Read Article

Microstrip ground clearance

Microstrip Ground Clearance: How Close is Too Close? Make sure to account for microstrip ground clearance when using copper pour on the surface layer. We’ll examine what happens with microstrips, striplines, and coplanar waveguides. Read Article

Castellated holes in a PCB

How to Design Castellated Holes in a PCB for an SMD Module Modules on small PCBs can be quickly surface-mounted to a carrier board withe castellated holes. Here’s how you can design castellated holes. Read Article

DFM analysis PCB design

Complete Guide to DFM Analysis Make sure your design will be produced with high quality and yield with our DFM analysis guidelines. You’ll want to perform DFM analysis at multiple stages during the design process. Read Article

Wideband signal integrity

Wideband Signal Analysis in Ultra-high Speed PCB Design Wideband signal analysis may seem like black magic, but it does more than create pretty graphs. Read our introduction to wideband signal analysis to learn more. Read Article

Serial Communications Protocols Part 5 - SPI

Serial Communications Protocols Part 5 - SPI In this next article in our series that is looking at different types of Serial Communication Protocols, we will be looking at the popular SPI protocol. This is one of many popular protocols in common usage that we will be looking at. We will provide a useful summary of each type’s advantages and disadvantages at the end of this series. SPI stands for Serial Peripheral Interface. It is a serial communication bus commonly used for short-distance Read Article

Power supply pcb layout

PCB Layout Guidelines for Switching Power Supplies and Regulators Read our short list of layout guidelines for switching power supplies and high current voltage regulators. Read Article