• Material Selection for High-Speed PCB Design

    Material Selection for High-Speed PCB Design

    When it comes to purchasing circuit boards, “commodity manager” may have been a reasonable title decades ago, but it’s not accurate today. Everything matters at higher speeds.
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  • Why Are You Still Using Gerber?

    Why Are You Still Using Gerber?

    The alternatives to Gerber, IPC-2581 and ODB++, offer a single-source, intelligent dataset used for processes throughout the PCB cycle. A longtime user compares and contrasts the ECAD formats.  READ MORE...

  • Going Green: PCB Designers Say Salaries on Rise

    Going Green: PCB Designers Say Salaries on Rise

    Designers and engineers are getting paid more. But are they working harder for a living?  READ MORE...

  • Designing for Higher Power in Smaller Form Factors

    Designing for Higher Power in Smaller Form Factors

    The redesign of a higher wattage adapter into a space 25% smaller was made easy by thermal modeling software.  READ MORE...

  • The Mechanism of Nickel Corrosion in ENIG Deposits and How to Mitigate It

    The Mechanism of Nickel Corrosion in ENIG Deposits and How to Mitigate It

    ENIG specs call for examination corrosion for a continuous intermetallic formed between the nickel layer and bulk solder. Can solder wetting balance testing predict the acceptability of ENIG deposits with level 2 or 3 corrosion?  READ MORE...

  • Maxwell and Transmission Lines

    Maxwell and Transmission Lines

    Many electronic engineers leave Maxwell to the textbooks. But in logic, the rise times for signals are often less than a nanosecond – bandwidth that invites unwanted radiation, interference and crosstalk. Can Maxwell’s equations help?  READ MORE...

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