Eventually, almost every EE must design a PCB, which isn’t something that’s taught in school. Yet engineers, technicians, and even novice PCB designers can create high-quality PCBs for any and every ...

Considerations for dividing analog and digital blocks. Decoupling techniques. Breaking down the board layers. How best to deal with grounding. Similar to building a house, it’s essential to create a ...

This article is an application note of the design guidelines of PCB layout for USB225x/USB224x/USB264x/USB266X high-speed secure-digital (SD) media sockets. The ...

This application note provides the PCB design and SMT assembly guidelines for Maxim Integrated’s leaded packages (SOIC, TSSOP, QSOP, QFP, SC70, SOP, SOT, etc.). Leaded packages are surface-mount ...

As data rates soar into the multi-gigabit range, high-speed digital (HSD) PCB design is no longer just about connecting the dots. Signal integrity (SI) and power integrity (PI) challenges can silently ...

Today’s high-speed PCB and system-level design demands fast, accurate simulation. This ebook explains how to choose the right ...

US industry body IPC has released a standard for the current capacity of tracks on PCBs. Called IPC-2152 ‘Standard for Determining Current-Carrying Capacity in Printed Board Design’, it is a 97page ...

Have you ever looked at a small development board like an Arduino or an ESP8266 board and thought you’d like one with just a ...