Licky's Column

Impedance Matching for High Speed Signals in PCB Design

by Licky Li October 31, 2024

The process for impedance matching in high speed PCB designs depends on the signaling standard, supply voltage levels, and signal levels. We often ...

Posted in design, PCB design

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

Important PCB grounding techniques to improve your design

by Licky Li October 31, 2024

Grounding in PCB boards holds special place as it can influence the performance greatly. A good time spent on grounding in your PCB design is never...

Posted in PCB design

How to Design a PCB Layout

by Licky Li October 31, 2024

The design process of a PCB will essentially begin by creating a schematic. This schematic is then developed into a PCB layout using CAD software. ...

Posted in PCB design

14 Tips For PCB Design For Assembly

by Licky Li October 31, 2024

Designing a combination of PCB in mind is one of the most important and often misunderstood. This series is dedicated to helping you become a profe...

Posted in assembly, PCB design, pcba

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

PCB Design Rules For Wiring And Crosstalk

by Licky Li October 31, 2024

Today’s electronic devices market demands miniaturized printed circuit boards (PCBs) with a multitude of high-speed functions integrated on a singl...

Posted in PCB design, PCB layout

PCB Layout Guidelines For High Speed Applications

by Licky Li October 31, 2024

The use of highly complex and intricate PCBs is becoming more and more common and widespread across a variety of applications. But while making PCB...

Posted in PCB design, PCB layout

10 Tips for High-frequency PCB Layout

by Licky Li October 31, 2024

First: multi-layer pcb board wiring High-frequency circuits tend to have high integration and high wiring density. The use of multi-layer boards i...

Posted in HDI PCB, High-frequency PCBs, PCB design, PCB fabrication, PCB layout

Impedance matching and sharing in HDI PCB design

by Licky Li October 31, 2024

Impedance matching is a way to configure load input impedance or its signal source output impedance. It is executed to achieve maximum power transm...

Posted in design, HDI PCB, PCB design

HDI PCB design guidelines

by Licky Li October 31, 2024

High-Density Interconnection (HDI) PCB design guidelines Printed Circuit Board (PCB) manufacturers typically follow three types of stackups for ...

Posted in #PCBA, design, HDI PCB, PCB design

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