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Managing supplier materials for electronics manufacturing can be challenging. Poor, incomplete, or absent material declarations can become significant roadblocks when sourcing compliant sub-products and components. Research and correspondence with suppliers can be slow-moving at times, and time is of the essence for designers on tight production schedules. The industry standard IPC-1752A helps to coordinate efforts between the disparate chemical, material, and sub-product manufacturers integral to PCBA production.

It’s important that PCB designers clearly communicate the manufacturing intentions of a project. Here are some ways to ensure the data in your PCB design documentation is as clear as possible.

Simulation is necessary to gauge system response and model performance when designing PCBs for manufacturing. However, real-world imperfections in manufacturing processes mean that component values differ from their nominal values; how much they differ depends on how tight the tolerancing is. Component tolerance is a vital aspect of board cost and performance as per-unit prices…

To get your project through production as quickly and smoothly as possible, here are some ideas on how to best create and manage your PCB manufacturing documentation.

Capacitors are elementary circuit components that can provide a vast range of functionality. At its most basic level, capacitors store charge up to a maximum capacity that they can then use to cover or smooth power demands when total circuit draw is high. However, their role in network analysis is more complex, as the current…

Modern expectations for many electronic devices are akin to a Swiss army knife: every reasonable feature that users may want should be available. Intuitively, this makes sense: if component costs are reasonable, it’s much easier to include additional features that may see less general use than to revise a design to include them after manufacturing.…