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21:20 How to Speed-Up Product Development With Reusable Circuitry Watch our webinar: “How to speed-up product development with reusable circuitry”. Click here. Watch Video

Flex Circuit Miniaturization and Biocompatibility with SAP Processes

Flex Circuit Miniaturization and Biocompatibility with SAP Processes Fabricators typically purchase flexible laminate, which consists of a layer of rolled annealed or electro-deposited copper on one of both sides of the dielectric. The most common dielectrics are polyimide, LCP, and polyester. Read Article

PCB power integrity

The Beginner's Guide to PCB Power Integrity: From Board to Package In this article, we give a complete overview of power integrity, starting from the PCB and including everything up to packaging. Read Article

Expert Tips for Safely Powering Up Your New PCB for the First Time

Expert Tips for Safely Powering Up Your New PCB for the First Time In this blog by expert Mark Harris, you will learn about the strategies to minimize the risk of damage to circuit boards during the initial power-up process. Read it now! Read Article

What Are Ultra HDI and Package Substrates

What Are Ultra HDI and Package Substrates? Tara Dunn interviews Mike Vinson, COO of Averatek, to discuss the Ultra HDI and package substrate market. Read Article

IC Carrier PCB

How to Design an IC Carrier PCB Carrier boards for integrated circuits can be used as interposers whenever there is an incorrect PCB land pattern. Read Article

What is Printed Electronics?

The True Benefits of Printed Electronics Join us and together let’s discover the many benefits of printed electronics from expedited prototyping, proof of concept, and academic research. Read Article

ADC PCB layout

Dual ADC Module PCB Design Project ADCs in a PCB are examined in this project, including placement and routing involving an isolated ADC. Read Article

Ultra-HDI Technology

Capabilities for Ultra-High-Density PCB 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 Read Article

Electronics Industry Insights for PCB Designers and Engineers

Electronics Industry Insights for PCB Designers and Engineers January 27, 2023 ONTRACK BI-WEEKLY The start of 2023 kicked off with CES, and now the industry is full speed ahead on developing hardware for the most advanced technologies of our time. The industry will start to see greater development in energy technologies, renewed push into 5G deployments, more companies operating in space, and AI systems tying it all together. Leading Insights Say Goodbye to 3G The beginning of 2023 marked the official end Read Article

What Are Netlists in PCB Design Projects?

What Are Netlists in PCB Design Projects? Your CAD system should not force you to manually work with netlists. Instead, learn about netlists and how advanced CAD systems automate their usage in PCB design, layout, and testing. Read Article

How to Design a Coaxial Probe Feed for a Patch Antenna

How to Design a Coaxial Probe Feed for a Patch Antenna Coaxial probe feeds can be used to connect to your patch antenna. See how this works in this design example. Read Article

Picotest’s Water Cooled Probe

Picotest’s Water Cooled Probe Having Steve Sandler in this episode is such a treat! He talks about his presentations at the upcoming DesignCon 2023 in Santa Clara. He gives us a deep dive into some very complex engineering topics, including measuring of the PDN Flatness and the state space model. Read Article

25:44 Understanding the PCB Fabrication Process Watch our webinar: “Understanding the PCB Fabrication Process”. Click here. Watch Video

nRF52 PCB layout

Getting Started With nRF52 MCU in a PCB See how to get started with the nRF52 in a PCB layout. We’ll show how to use the fine-pitch BGA package version of this component. Read Article

Accessible Education for PCB Designers

Accessible Education for PCB Designers In this episode, we are fortunate to have two passionate educators in the industry, Mike Buetow and Mike Creeden. We will talk about the PCEA’s efforts to use all possible platforms to promote educational programs for design engineers. Read Article

How Embedded Design Teams Can Simplify I/O and Routing

How Embedded Design Teams Can Simplify I/O and Routing Each member of an electronics product design team can take concrete steps to simplify I/O selection and routing in embedded systems design. Read Article