Electronic Component Vulnerability Assessment in PCB Design
Choosing the wrong component can cause serious problems for your PCB. Here are some considerations in order to mitigate electronic component vulnerability risks.
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The Implementation of Design Reliability Testing and Risk Reduction Strategies
Design reliability and risk reduction strategies are a vital part of proper and accurate PCB design.
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Layout Tips for PCB Panelization to Increase Manufacturing Efficiency
To ensure that your printed circuit board design is manufactured in the most efficient and cost effective way, look at these layout tips for PCB panelization.
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PCB Design For Solder Mask Defined Footprints
The right clearance and tolerance for your solder mask defined footprints is important so you don't run into any assembly issues.
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Design for Electronics Recycling: Best Practices
How do I institute a design for electronics recycling strategy? In this blog, we give you the answers you need.
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Precision Tools for ECAD-MCAD Co-Design of Multi-Board PCBs
As PCB design increases in complexity, it is more important than ever that designers use ECAD-MCAD co-design of multi-board PCBs to shorten design schedules.
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The Best 4 Layer PCB Power Plane Design Techniques
4 layer PCB power plane design poses unique challenges. In this blog, we explain these and how best to address them.
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IoT Consumer Electronics that Streamline Business Interactions
IoT consumer electronics are everywhere. Learning how to design them and integrate into a home or business environment should be seamless too.
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Life Cycle Assessment of Consumer Electronics: Marketability and Product Development
Life cycle assessments of consumer electronics should consider longevity, component tolerances, and potential product use-case diversifications.
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A Practical History of Environmental Quality Function Deployment (QFD) and Engineering
Environmental quality function deployment can be achieved with diligence and attention through PCB design and manufacturing.
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Design for Sustainable Consumer Electronics: PCB Materials and Supply Chain Management
Design for sustainable consumer electronics can be looked at from an overall view of materials, and a more refined view of what an individual designer might do.
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Green Product Lifecycle Management: A Nontoxic Approach to PCB Design
Green product lifecycle management encourages PCB design and manufacturing that accounts for a product’s lifecycle including its eventual discarding.
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PCB Design Tools to Promote Engineering Team Collaboration
For designers to stay ahead of the technology development race, they will need concurrent PCB design tools in order to leverage engineering team collaboration.
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How Sustainable Electronics Materials are the Future of the PCB Industry
The use of sustainable electronics materials is environmentally friendly, provides lower manufacturing costs, and increases production.
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What are the Cost Considerations for 4-layer, 6-layer, and 8-layer PCB Designs?
When comparing PCB cost by layer, be sure to address all of the needs of the application before making any design decisions.
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Land Grid Array or LGA Manufacturing: Packaging and Substrate Concerns
When considering LGA manufacturing, you’ll want to be sure to account for the components you’re using for any kind of consumer electronics.
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FMEA Risk Assessment for PCB Component Selection
Conducting an FMEA risk assessment of the components used on your PCB design will help to assure quality and availability before you begin circuit simulation.
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Engineering Productivity and Design Reuse Tools for Effective PCB Design
You can drastically cut your design time down while at the same time reduce the chance for errors by utilizing engineering productivity and design reuse tools.
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