2013 was a - by looking at the facts - a rather good year for the global flexible PCB market, which grew by 9.4% YoY and is valued at approximately EUR 8.26 billion.Printed Circuit Boards (PCB) lie at...
Karen Lin
Apr 14,2014
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To increase fabrication yield, it is important to center the traces between the fanout vias inside the BGA area. Large BGAs are usually 1mm pitch and medium sized ones are 0.8mm. Then we go down to 0....
Karen Lin
Apr 14,2014
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I hope you were sufficiently inspired by last week’s discussion on preventing electrostatic discharge (ESD)-related fails to check your PCB and make sure you aren’t guilty of making a board with ESD ‘...
Karen Lin
Apr 11,2014
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I posed a question a couple of weeks ago regarding film capacitors—what’s the meaning of the stripe on one end? Check the picture below. These are non-polarized capacitors so it’s not a polarity mark...
Karen Lin
Apr 11,2014
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Complete PCB thermal design verification almost 3-times fasterMechanical engineers are turning to Mentor’s PCB thermal analysis software to facilitate collaboration and ensure thermal problems are sol...
Karen Lin
Apr 10,2014
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My name is Charles Pfeil and my role at Mentor Graphics is one in which I always have a primary focus on routing technology and methods – although I do get involved in numerous other projects. I began...
Karen Lin
Apr 10,2014
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Trends in North American Flexible Circuit Book-to-Bill Ratio The monthly North American PCB Market Report provides timely data on PCB market size, sales and order growth, book-to-bill ratios and near...
Karen Lin
Apr 10,2014
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When your project is ready to build, it’s time to find a PCB manufacturer. There are tons of them out there, but for prototype purposes cheaper is usually better. [Ian] at Dangerous Prototypes has jus...
Karen Lin
Apr 10,2014
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The ‘ElectroTestExpo’ consortium is pleased to announce the dates for its regional PCB test and debug exhibitions to be held during 2014. Now enjoying its fifth consecutive year of free-to-attend ...
Karen Lin
Apr 10,2014
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Synchronous buck converters have gained acceptance as isolated bias supplies in communications and industrial markets. Isolated buck converters, or Fly-Buck™ converters as they are commonly call...
Karen Lin
Apr 10,2014
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The basic design rules for power distribution networks (PDN) teach us that the best performance is obtained from a uniform, frequency independent (or flat) impedance profile. This is one reason that ...
Karen Lin
Apr 10,2014
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The global PCB manufacturing market is expected to increase from around $62.3 billion in 2013 to around $74.31 billion in 2018, growing at a CAGR of 3.6%, according to research firm IndustryARC. The ...
Karen Lin
Apr 10,2014
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IPC Releases PCB Industry Results for February 2014 BANNOCKBURN, Ill., USA, March 31, 2014 — IPC — Association Connecting Electronics Industries® announced today the February findings from its m...
Karen Lin
Apr 10,2014
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The most common question asked of electronic product developers today is how to do more with less. How do you incorporate newer, faster technologies in smaller packages to take advantage of new produc...
Karen Lin
Apr 09,2014
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In an earlier paper, we established the importance of design for manufacturing (DFM) in today’s PCB manufacturing environment. PCBs designed using those techniques typically experience reduced failure...
Karen Lin
Apr 09,2014
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What’s keeping you? Why does that quote take so darn long? I hear comments like this all the time from my buyer friends who ask why PCB shops’ quotes take so long. “Why are we kept waiting when we’re ...
Karen Lin
Apr 09,2014
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The global PCB industry continues to grow as business shifts from Western countries to Far Eastern countries. Japan was the leader in the industry for a number of years in terms of output value, but b...
Karen Lin
Apr 09,2014
1914 views
In my end of year review, I found that approximately 25% of PCB manufacturers have a Facebook page. Of those companies, 70% had given up. It was like something sinister had happened to the company’s F...
Karen Lin
Apr 09,2014
1447 views
The first quarter of 2014 is now in the history books and industry sales for January were sent to me recently. Listed below is a summary of this data compared to last year. Sales usually decline in J...
Karen Lin
Apr 09,2014
1872 views
Industry association IPC announced today that its California Circuits Association (CCA) is in the process of establishing an educational program for printed circuit board fabrication training. The ed...
Karen Lin
Apr 09,2014
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