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PCB Mounting Hole Size for DFM
While most PCB drilling is for vias and through-hole components, some drilling does not encompass electrical connectivity. The board’s placement within the enclosure requires mechanical drilling for fasteners, and some large components, like connectors, may utilize support pins for additional vibration dampening. While simple features overall, PCB mounting hole sizes require a basic understanding of…
EMC Automotive Guidelines
The increasing prevalence of electronics in automobiles is welcome to consumers for many reasons: improved features increase safety measures or add new functionality that would otherwise be unachievable. There is a drawback with increasing electronic automation of the vehicle, as issues with signal transmission can undermine or override these safety features. For signal integrity, circuits…
Aluminum Core PCBs: Lightweight, Heavy Dissipation
As the power demands of devices increase to keep pace with performance, the thermal capabilities of standard PCB materials cannot provide the requisite characteristics for reliable operations. Traditional active and passive cooling approaches can impede project goals and lead to sub-optimal solutions, especially constrained designs due to enclosure size, package weight, or power efficiency. Increasingly,…
Creepage and Clearance Rules for High-Voltage Boards
Any PCB carries essential industry standards that should be followed and considered during design and assembly. Among the various PCB design standards, one crucial set governs creepage and clearance distances between neighboring conductors on a PCB. These standards aid in designing electrostatically safe products, especially those running at high voltage. If a high voltage develops…
Metal Core PCBs for High-Power Circuitry
Keep a cool head when tackling high-power circuit designs with a metal core PCB stackup.
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- Protected: Blind and Buried Vias for Complex Stackups
- PCB Mounting Hole Size for DFM
- EMC Automotive Guidelines
- Aluminum Core PCBs: Lightweight, Heavy Dissipation
- Creepage and Clearance Rules for High-Voltage Boards
- Metal Core PCBs for High-Power Circuitry
- PCB Crosstalk: How to Reduce Coupling
- Characteristic Impedance of Transmission Line Design
- PCB Trace Widths: Optimizing for Impedance, Density
- Parasitic Capacitance: High-Speed Circuit Effects