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Tried-and-True Design Practices for High PCB Yield

In PCB design, design for manufacturing (DfM) is all about correcting mistakes after reviewing a PCB layout. We then devise corrective actions to fix those mistakes and improve procedures to make ...
Hackaday

Connector-Free Zone: PCB Edge As USB-C Interfaces

Sometimes when you’re making a PCB that you plan on programming over USB, but you only plan on plugging in a couple of times, it would be nice to make that connection without another BOM ...
Printed Circuit Design & Fab Online Magazine

Why Rigid-Flex PCBs are an Untapped Design Solution

True 3-D interconnects and packaging. Rigid PCBs are inherently 2-D. Rigid-flex, however, allows you to fold, bend and twist your circuit board into complex 3-D shapes, conforming to irregularly ...
IEEE

Design and Optimization of High-Efficiency Coreless PCB Stator Axial Flux PM Machines With Minimal Eddy and Circulating Current Losses

Abstract: This paper proposes a systematic multi-step design procedure for highly efficient printed circuit board (PCB) stator coreless axial flux permanent magnet (AFPM) machines with minimal eddy ...
IEEE

Low Parasitic Loop Inductance Design and Characterization of a 1200 V, 200 A SiC MOSFET Half-Bridge PCB-embedded Power Module

Abstract: In this article, the design and characterization of a 1200 V, 200 A rated printed circuit board (PCB) embedded silicon carbide (SiC) MOSFET half-bridge is being presented. The layout of the ...
EDN

PCB/SI/EMC

Housed in a 6-pin, 2.0×1.6-mm LGA package, Mixed-Signal Devices’ MS1180 crystal oscillator conserves space in AI data center Continue Reading ...
GitHub

The-OpenROAD-Project/SA-PCB

See https://github.com/The-OpenROAD-Project/PCB-PR-App Chester Holtz, Devon Merrill, James (Ting-Chou) Lin, Connie (Yen-Yi) Wu (Ph.D. advisor: Chung-Kuan Cheng ...