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PCB prototype is one of the most requested services in the electronics industry. It is important to prototype these circuit boards to perform various tests before going through with a full PCB production run. We know many PCB prototype suppliers ...

By Howard Goff, NCAB Group UK. Dataweek So why are they green? I did not know, so I resorted to google. My favourite answer was “for the same reason that jeans are blue and NY taxi cabs are yellow”. Which, actually, is not strictly ...

EasyEDA is a cloud - based tool and free for the design of electronic circuits. The PCB design tool allows us to design projects and easily produce electronic systems. In this article we show the main features of their software, today we are going ...

Version 2 of the desktop Othermill milling machine is now available, and it's accurate enough for a range of machining tasks, including double-sided PCBs. The machine can handle a range of materials, like brass, aluminum, wood, and plastic. For ...

Darvin Edwards Electronic Design We’ve come a very long way from the first IC, but we still have a long way yet to go to achieve the full promise of the IC revolution Sometime in the mid to late 1960s, my father came home excited from the ...

Roger Allan Electronic Design An array of advances in thermal-management products and methodologies, some bordering on exotic, arm designers with essential weapons to battle the heat As consumer demands for “smaller” and ...

Janine Love EDN Today, there is a printer called The EX¹ launching on Kickstarter. The inventors, three students who formed Cartesian Co. , demonstrate how you can quickly create circuit boards on paper, plastic, glass, wood, ceramic, ...

Part 1 ESD immunity The system-level ESD-immunity test simulates the ESD of a human onto an electronic component (Figure 7a). Electrostatic charge on a human can develop in low relative humidity, on low-conductivity carpets, and on vinyl garments. ...

Dwight Byrd and Thomas Kugelstadt, Texas Instruments Different testing standartds for ESD exist, and which one you use affects your design challenge ESD (electrostatic discharge) the sudden and momentary electric current that flows between two ...

This article shows how you can perform repairs on snapped or broken PCBs. Quite often, whilst repairing old computers or other electronics, I find badly damaged PCBs. Recently my brother-in-law asked me to take a look at a head-unit from an ...