Impedance Discontinuities
November 30, 2021 6:50 pm Leave your thoughtsMost engineers know that when an electromagnetic wave encounters an impedance discontinuity at any point as it travels from source... View Article
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PCB Design Recommendations for Medical Electronics
July 19, 2021 7:25 pm Leave your thoughtsWhen medical devices fail, patients can suffer. So every effort must be made to ensure the devices operate as planned... View Article
2021 Component Crisis: Why It’s Happening and What You Can Do
July 2, 2021 2:41 pm Leave your thoughtsIt’s June of 2021, and PCB Designers cannot get the electronic components they need to manufacture their designs, and engineers... View Article
New Age Materials – Webinar
May 27, 2021 5:14 pm Leave your thoughtsAs engineers continue to create solutions with faster rise times, smaller form-factors, and higher density components, FR4 laminates become less... View Article
Standing Desk
February 26, 2021 8:28 pm Leave your thoughtsIf you sit all day your health will suffer. One way to solve this problem is to purchase a standing... View Article
Adding the Raspberry Pi Pico to Your Next Project
February 3, 2021 11:41 pm Leave your thoughtsThe latest toy in the electrical engineer’s toolbox is the Raspberry Pi Pico, a $4 microcontroller module. The module hosts... View Article
Never Pay for a Programming Header Again!
January 14, 2021 8:31 pm Leave your thoughtsOff-board connectors are expensive to purchase and usually expensive to install. If they are necessary for a design, then you... View Article
Simulation and Measurement Tutorial
December 17, 2020 7:05 pm Leave your thoughtsIntroduction Civil Engineers have a saying: “Any idiot can build a bridge that stands. It takes an engineer to make... View Article
PCB Fabrication Basics: How Traces Are Made
November 24, 2020 9:21 am Leave your thoughtsEtch Progression Copper foil does not etch right angles to a board surface. Initially, only the exposed copper surfaces react... View Article
What is a Traveler?
November 17, 2020 10:28 am Leave your thoughtsWhen an engineer orders a printed circuit board from a fabricator, the fabricator will generate a list of steps that... View Article