SAN JOSE, CA – NextFlex has announced the release of Project Call 8.0, the latest call for proposals that seek to fund projects that further the development and... Read More...
HONG KONG – Chinese private equity firm DCP Capital aims to sell its Singaporean portfolio firm MFS Technology, which makes flexible printed circuit boards, for... Read More...
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YOKOHAMA, JAPAN – MKS Instruments unveiled a significant investment in its Yokohama Technical Center in Japan that will enable an integrated approach to creatin... Read More...
ATLANTA – The electronic component sales sentiment climbed to 90.6 in February, according to the Electronic Components Industry Association's latest Electronic ... Read More...
ESPOO, FINLAND – A recent study by the VTT Technical Research Centre of Finland found that environmental impact could be reduced by 86% when additive printing m... Read More...
SANTA ANA, CA -- TTM Technologies has signed a definitive agreement to sell its Shanghai backplane assembly plant for approximately $11.8 million, subject to cu... Read More...
SINGAPORE – Trident is in the process of constructing a new factory in Thailand. The new factory, which will be the company's third in the country, will increas... Read More...
PETACH TIKVA, ISRAEL – Eltek reported $10.5 million in fourth quarter revenue, a 10.5% increase from the revenue of $9.5 million in the fourth quarter of 2021. ... Read More...
WASHINGTON – Global semiconductor industry sales totaled $41.3 billion during the month of January 2023, a decrease of 5.2% compared to the December 2022 total ... Read More...
NEEDHAM, MA – Global shipments of AR/VR headsets declined 20.9% year over year to 8.8 million units, according to new data from the International Data Corporati... Read More...
XINFENG COUNTY, CHINA – Kinwong Electronics held a groundbreaking ceremony this week for its new PCB manufacturing facility in China's Jiangxi Province. Read More...
PITTSBURGH – Ansys announced that it is contributing $250,000 toward funded curriculum proposals in 2023 as part of its ongoing mission to support the next gene... Read More...
AUSTIN, TX – National Instruments has announced the acquisition of SET GmbH, a German developer of aerospace and defense test systems and recent innovators in p... Read More...
FRAMINGHAM, MA – The worldwide hardcopy peripherals market saw overall shipments grow 11.6% year over year to nearly 25.0 million units in the fourth quarter. S... Read More...
Understanding reflections caused by transmission line characteristic impedance and termination impedance mismatch. Analysis of “digital interconnects” is the a... Read More...
Some areas of physics have considerable impact on PCB designs. PCB designers have had exposure to electronics (some more than others). And most of what we do f... Read More...
Exhibitors hope new products will keep the order books filled in 2023. The good times of 2022 carried over into January as the industry turned out for one of t... Read More...
Not enough solder? Blame the via design! Vias in pads can be “solder thirsty” and suck up solder from pads at terminals during reflow, creating what may appear... Read More...
Taking the confusion out of determining appropriate data collection parameters. In 1924, Dr. Walter Shewhart was working at Bell Telephone Laboratories. On May... Read More...
Not leaving enough clearance is a design oversight that can have costly consequences. As PCB designers, fabricators and assemblers, we wear a lot of hats at Ru... Read More...
A comparison of energy, water and chemical use for two common processes. “We will make decisions based on sustainability, Lenora.” I heard the words clearly. I... Read More...
A design can look good on paper, but has it been vetted for manufacturing? Printed circuit board assembly: What comes to mind when you hear, read, or think tha... Read More...
Thermal interface materials provide much-needed heat relief for electronic assemblies. Overheating is the number one cause of electronic component failure and ... Read More...
A basic process for revising a client-supplied CAD (http://www.pcdandf.com/pcdesign/menu-research/cad-cam-pcb-software) database. Not all designs start from sc... Read More...
A review of five useful tools and the basis for using each. What is the prominent skill process engineers are on the payroll for? It’s their problem-solving sk... Read More...
Will a “universal” footprint work for various-sized passives? This details the design of an LED constant-current driver PCB. I am trying to make this design as... Read More...
The path to digitize a factory is both closer and cheaper than most engineers realize. Reshoring has been a buzzword for a few years now. But when supply chain... Read More...
Political and supply-chain issues could not slow printed circuit growth in 2021. The author attended his first IPC meeting in 1966. At that time, the consen... Read More...
IPC-2152 is an important baseline for determining current carrying capacity, but further work must be done for individual applications. In response to recent c... Read More...
KiCad 7.0.1 stable version contains critical bug fixes and other minor improvements since the previous release. Read More...
Numerical Innovations' ACE 2D/3D Translator has been updated to Version 8.3.0, adding a number of new features. Read More...
Würth Elektronik's WCAP-FTXH series of capacitors is ENEC 10, cULus, and CQC certified and belongs to the X2 safety class capacitors according to IEC 60384-14. ... Read More...
Ucamco's newest versions of its Pre-CAM and CAM software include additions to increase customers’ productivity. Read More...
Kyocera AVX's new range of radial-leaded aluminum electrolytic capacitors are engineered for use in industrial, communications, and consumer electronics applica... Read More...
DIS Datalign series front-end automated lay-up system is for multilayer printed circuit board fabrication. Accepts all inputs including cores and prepreg. Robot... Read More...
Vishay's BCcomponents 172 RLX series of capacitors combine high ripple currents up to 4.9 A, high temperature operation to +105 °C, and useful life to 10,000h i... Read More...
Stackpole's ASR/ASRM series of resistors offers high working voltages, high pulse voltage handling, and well-defined pulse behavior for high voltage application... Read More...
KiCad 7.0.0 features custom font support in the schematic, PCB, and worksheet editors, as well as text box support was added in both the schematic and PCB edito... Read More...
Vishay Intertechnology's T51 automotive grade series of vPolyTan surface-mount polymer tantalum molded chip capacitors are designed to deliver improved performa... Read More...
Amphenol Ardent Concepts' TR90 multicoax connector is designed to transfer high-speed signals up to 90 GHz and is designed for use in 112G/224G, 5G/6G, and auto... Read More...
Avishtech's Gauss SI and SI PRO are toolsets that provide a clear and easy-to-use pathway to rapidly construct PCB stackups and simulate for impedance and loss ... Read More...
Keysight Technologies' Electrical Performance Scan (EP-Scan) is a high-speed digital simulation tool that supports rapid signal integrity (SI) analysis for hard... Read More...
Passive Plus’s Traditional High-Q Low ESR 1111 (0.110” x 0.110”) multi-layer ceramic capacitors are meant for use in UHF/microwave RF power amplifiers, mixers, ... Read More...
Altium Designer 23.1 offers newly improved features spanning PCB design, product design and data management, enabling the creation of more detailed harness layo... Read More...