There are certain design guidelines for PCBs that don’t make a lot of sense, and practices that seem excessive and unnecessary. Often these are motivated by the black magic that is RF transmission.

PLEASANTON, CA / ACCESSWIRE / September 15, 2017 / The founders of Optimum Design Associates, an EMS company that offers design and assembly services to OEMs in North America, are pleased to announce ...

“This time we'll have to run the entire design in parallel,” the ambitious engineering manager announced to the skeptical crowd of engineers and designers that had gathered for the project kickoff.

A very long time ago, in the “old days” of lower frequencies and discrete point-to-point wiring, what was mostly needed to build a physical circuit was schematic, a fulfilled BOM, and perhaps an ...

The IoT has increased the demand for good radio frequency (RF) design practices from the mains, to wall outlet power, all the way to the antenna. With several IoT standards employed today, constraint ...

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 ...