Homepage Slideshow

• Material Selection for High-Speed PCB Design

  When it comes to purchasing circuit boards, “commodity manager” may have been a reasonable title decades ago, but it’s not accurate today. Everything matters at higher speeds.
  

  https://www.pcdandf.com/pcdesign/index.php/editorial/menu-features/13607-high-speed-laminates-1905

• Why Are You Still Using Gerber?

  The alternatives to Gerber, IPC-2581 and ODB++, offer a single-source, intelligent dataset used for processes throughout the PCB cycle. A longtime user compares and contrasts the ECAD formats.

  https://pcdandf.com/pcdesign/index.php/editorial/menu-features/13521-data-transfer-1904

• Going Green: PCB Designers Say Salaries on Rise

  Designers and engineers are getting paid more. But are they working harder for a living?

  https://www.pcdandf.com/pcdesign/index.php/editorial/menu-features/13450-salary-survey-1903

• Designing for Higher Power in Smaller Form Factors

  The redesign of a higher wattage adapter into a space 25% smaller was made easy by thermal modeling software.

  https://www.pcdandf.com/pcdesign/index.php/editorial/menu-features/13449-thermal-design-1903

• The Mechanism of Nickel Corrosion in ENIG Deposits and How to Mitigate It

  ENIG specs call for examination corrosion for a continuous intermetallic formed between the nickel layer and bulk solder. Can solder wetting balance testing predict the acceptability of ENIG deposits with level 2 or 3 corrosion?

  https://pcdandf.com/pcdesign/index.php/editorial/menu-features/13342-plating-corrosion-1902

• Maxwell and Transmission Lines

  Many electronic engineers leave Maxwell to the textbooks. But in logic, the rise times for signals are often less than a nanosecond – bandwidth that invites unwanted radiation, interference and crosstalk. Can Maxwell’s equations help?

  https://pcdandf.com/pcdesign/index.php/editorial/menu-features/13236-maxwell-and-transmission-lines