Keeping track of extremely low current levels is often essential when developing or testing low-power devices, especially in the field of embedded systems and battery-operated electronics. For battery ...

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A manufacturer’s perspective on determining parts layout. A land pattern refers to the footprint or layout of surface-mount components on a printed circuit board (PCB). It includes the arrangement of ...

When I was young, I was lucky enough to own an original Game Boy, and over the years, I accumulated quite a few games. Unfortunately, one day, a malicious family member stole nearly everything to sell ...

Abstract: This article discusses power losses, heating, and heat distribution on high-power PCBs fitted with high-power SMD components. The paper presents two thermal design methods for power SMD PCBs ...

Although the newer process of surface mount technology (SMT) has largely replaced through-hole technology (THT) as a PCB assembly method for high-volume production, THT still has its place in ...

The best high-speed pick-and-place machines for circuit board assembly can place an astonishing 100,000 surface-mount components an hour with an accuracy of ±0.04 millimeter. That’s a lot of chips!

Designers of equipment such as cellular handsets, car-navigation systems, and wireless local-area networks (WLANs) can now design large-scale PCBs with accurate electrical models for high-performance ...

KYOTO, Japan--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Murata Manufacturing Co., Ltd. (TOKYO: 6981) (ISIN: JP3914400001) has announced its new Parasitic Element Coupling Device. This state-of-the-art solution improves ...