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PDS Design For Ultra-low Power Implementations PDS Design For Ultra-low Power Implementations When it comes to low power implementations, products are characterized as very rarely having high current options, being small in size, being optimized for power management and having the necessity for batteries to last as long as possible. There’s a broad spectrum of products that fall under these criteria including, but not limited to, smartphones, smartwatches, remote monitoring devices and medical devices to name a few. In terms of PDS design Read Article
Power Play—Successfully Designing Power Delivery Systems Power Play—Successfully Designing Power Delivery Systems Across the industry, the design element that continues to cause the most problems is the power delivery system (PDS). And, as a consulting firm, for the last several years the majority of problems that we have been called in to solve have always centered on PDS problems. As noted in my previous blog on guard traces and their ineffectiveness, every time we have been called upon to solve an EMI problem, we have always ended up fixing the PDS. This Read Article
Meshing Design with Assembly Meshing Design with Electronics Assembly and Flux Cleaning PCBAs require flux cleaning during assembly, as well as other cleaning steps to remove other soils. Read this blog by expert Barbara Kanegsberg to learn more about cleaning processes. Read Article
The Art of Selecting Connectors The Art of Selecting Connectors Connectors are the unsung stars of both a product and its hardware development. Any Apple user knows the romantic tale the company has spun from infatuation with the first magnetic power connector through the betrayal of the 3.5mm jack to today’s ‘it’s complicated’ status thanks to the baggage their dongles create in pursuit of beauty. Product developers have similar emotional experiences with their prototypes. An unreliable connector that has Read Article
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