Licky's Column

How to Specify Impedance on a Printed Circuit Board

by Licky Li November 02, 2024

Controlling impedance (resistance) is almost a given with today’s technology. One day, we are adding a wireless option to a common object and calli...

Posted in Impedance, PCB, PCB design, PCB fabrication

9 Tips for Impedance control in High-speed Digital PCB Design

by Licky Li October 31, 2024

Impedance control is an integral aspect of everything related to PCBs. It is necessary for all stages – starting from design to implementation. Ove...

Posted in Impedance, Impedance Control PCB, PCB Impedance Matching

High Speed Printed Circuit Board (PCB) Design Guidelines

by Licky Li October 31, 2024

What Is High Speed Board Design? As the name suggests, a high speed printed circuit board design provides the transmission of signals at high speed...

Posted in Impedance, PCB design, PCB Impedance Matching

10 Tips for Advanced Requirements Impedance Control PCB

by Licky Li October 31, 2024

1. It Enables PCBs to Deal with Signal Integrity Issues Recently, the globe has seen a surge in the switching speeds of most electronic devices. ...

Posted in Impedance, Impedance Control PCB, PCB design, PCB layout

The Importance of PCB Trace Widths in PCB Design

by Licky Li October 31, 2024

What is Trace Width? Let’s start with the basics. What exactly is trace width and why is specifying a particular trace width so important? The poin...

Posted in Impedance, PCB design, PCB Impedance Matching

Analog vs. Digital PDN Impedance: How to Design for Each Signal

by Licky Li October 31, 2024

Analog vs. Digital PDN Impedance and Bandwidth The primary difference between PDN impedance behavior in analog and digital systems is bandwidth. Th...

Posted in Impedance, PCB design

The Impedance of FPC Circuit Board

by Licky Li October 31, 2024

1. Characteristic Impedance In electronic information products such as computers and wireless communications, the energy transmitted in the circuit...

Posted in FPC, FPC Flexible PCB, Impedance, Impedance Control PCB

How to Measure Impedance Using the Circuit Impedance Formula?

by Licky Li October 31, 2024

What is the Importance of Impedance Matching in a Circuit Board?The traces of circuit board function as transmission lines with certain impedance v...

Posted in Impedance, Impedance Control PCB, PCB design, PCB Impedance Matching

Importance of PCB trace width during PCB design

by Licky Li October 29, 2024

IMPORTANCE OF TRACE WIDTH PCB traces connect all kinds of electrical signals from one junction to another. The signals may be analog, digital, or ...

Posted in Impedance, PCB design

The definition of impedance PCB board

by Licky Li October 29, 2024

First, the printed circuit board impedance characteristics: According to the theory of signal transmission, the signal is a function of time and di...

Posted in Impedance, Impedance Control PCB, PCB design

5 Must Know Rules to achieve impedance control in PCB

by Licky Li October 29, 2024

Impedance measurement To validate the design of a PCB, verifying at a practical level the impedance value assumed along the transmission lines, the...

Posted in Impedance, Impedance Control PCB, PCB design, PCB layout

What is the PCB trace impedance,and how to calculate it?

by Licky Li October 29, 2024

PCB trace impedance is the sum of all the resistance and reactance components of an electrical signal path. An ideal transmission line must have a ...

Posted in Impedance, Impedance Control PCB, PCB design