Printed circuit boards (PCBs) are the essential building blocks behind almost all modern electronic devices. These components ...

A team of Stanford University engineers has developed a circuit board, and its underlying chips, that simulates the activity of the human brain 9,000 times faster than a personal computer and is ...

In our previous issues in this series on making circuit boards, we covered placing solder paste and placing components. Now it’s time to bake our cake! There are a variety of methods for reflowing a ...

Why are test points a crucial element in developing a successful circuit? Types of test points available, and the different techniques that employ them. Electronic design has always been an endeavor ...

Anyone who’s spent significant amounts of time salvaging old electronics has probably wished there were a way to take apart a circuit board without desoldering it. [Zeyu Yan] et al seem to have had ...

The company is using a three-dimensional UV printer to make the designs look and feel more like an actual circuit board. The company is using a three-dimensional UV printer to make the designs look ...

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 ...

Over the last 35 years, the transistors that make up computer chips have steadily shrunk, leading to smaller, faster and cheaper PCs. But while transistors perform the chip’s computations, they can’t ...

Deutsche Bahn is celebrating ten years of 3D printing, showing how the technology has moved from experimental use to supply ...