There has been an argument raging for years over whether you should design circuit boards with 45-degree corners or 90-degree corners. Why make them with corners at all? This breathtaking circuit ...

Founder and CEO Sergiy Nesterenko, a former SpaceX engineer, decided to start Quilter to automate the electronics design process and help business save time and labor costs. Welcome back to The Prompt ...

Chris Drumm is a lifelong gamer with a BA in English writing and years of experience writing articles and news online. He's played hundreds of games in dozens of genres, enjoyed them all, and put more ...

Most every device and electronic piece of equipment is outfitted with a printed circuit board (PCB), including smartphones, TVs, appliances, and more. You know the composite. The boards are laminated ...

Circuit board design startup Jitx Inc. today launched from stealth mode and disclosed that it has secured a $12 million funding round led by Sequoia Capital. The Series A round also included the ...

In our previous article on Ball Grid Arrays (BGAs), we explored how to design circuit boards and how to route the signals coming out of a BGA package. But designing a board is one thing – soldering ...

Part 1 of this series described how digital signals propagate through PC boards, and Part 2 described specific board stack-up designs to achieve low EMI. Part 3 will address partitioning of circuit ...

What is reverse engineering? Tools used to reverse engineer a PCB. Specifics about de-layering Printed-circuit-board (PCB) reverse engineering is a method of analyzing and understanding the design ...

According to the DfS insight, an instant analysis would indicate that this straightforward change could reduce PCB costs by 15 to 20% without impacting the prototype’s performance. This adjustment not ...