Design Articles

Embedded Capacitance in a PCB - Utilizing and understanding the hidden capacitance in your printed circuit board. Escape routing under fine pitched BGAs - Technology is moving smaller and smaller parts to the PCB design. This article will help you reduce layer count, without compromising functionality. Capacitor Parasitics - Designing for EMI - When a capacitor is not a capacitor, it's important to work 'with' Murphy's law. 'Schematic 'readiness' and their portability - Unlike a power-point presentation, there are hidden treasures inside. Mass production of your PCB design -Determine trade offs and costs very carefully. Your company name might depend on it. The importance of a solid plane layer in your high speed PCB design - A DDR memory design.

 

Projects

Light Peak development board - A development system for the OEM that's used for development of the Intel/Apple co-developed technology. Kid Catcher - Front Yard Intrusion Detection.

 

Further Information / Links

EverythingPCB - EverythingPCB is a Printed Circuit Industry product, service and resource guide listing everything from software to manufacturers to assembly services and everything in-between.