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What is the Industrial PCB Production Process?

by Lily Zhang

What is the Industrial PCB Production Process?

What is the Industrial PCB Production Process? 1. Board cut Board cutting is the process of cutting the original copper-clad laminate into boards ...
Posted in PCB, PCB fabrication, PCB manufacturing

How to Fabricate a PCB With DIY Methods?

by Lily Zhang

How to Fabricate a PCB With DIY Methods?

Method 1#: Cut the copper-clad laminate to the size required by the PCB Put the stencilpaper on the steel plate, use a pen to draw the circuit dia...
Posted in PCB, PCB design, PCB fabrication

What is anodizing?

by Lily Zhang

What is anodizing?

Anodizing is a key step in manufacturing aluminum CNC machined parts . An electrochemical process that involves coating a metal part with an oxide...
Posted in Aluminum enclosure, CNC, enclosure

Flexible PCBs: advantages and disadvantages

by Lily Zhang

Flexible PCBs: advantages and disadvantages

Structure of a flexible PCB As happens for rigid PCBs, FPCs can be divided into single layer, double layer or multi- layer circuits. The main eleme...
Posted in flex, Flexible PCB, FPC, FPC Flexible PCB

High-speed PCB design

by Lily Zhang

High-speed PCB design

Not all printed circuit boards that operate with digital signals must necessarily be considered High Speed PCBs. In many cases, in fact, it is suff...
Posted in PCB, PCB design, PCB fabrication

RF PCB Design

by Lily Zhang

RF PCB Design

An RF PCB design is a bit different from a conventional board. What makes it distinct are parameters like impedance matching, type of traces (prefe...
Posted in PCB, PCB design, PCB fabrication

Difference Between CMOS and TTL

by Lily Zhang

Difference Between CMOS and TTL

What is CMOS? CMOS is the shortened form for Complementary Metal Oxide Semiconductor and it is a technology for fabricating the IC’s which are used...

FPGA and CPLD

by Lily Zhang

FPGA and CPLD

FPGA or CPLD, and which one to use? It is a common question often asked by people who are first getting into hardware design. There will never be a...

Gold Plating for PCBs

by Lily Zhang

Gold Plating for PCBs

Gold plating is a process where gold plates are placed on other metals on PCBs to help with their conductivity. Gold plating is the most common way...
Posted in PCB, PCB fabrication, PCB manufacturing

HOW TO REVERSE ENGINEER A PCB BOARD

by Lily Zhang

HOW TO REVERSE ENGINEER A PCB BOARD

Reverse engineering circuit boards can be a long process, but it’s well worth the payout. There are a few primary stages of reverse engineering PCB...
Posted in PCB design, Reverse Engineering

What is an HDI PCB?

by Lily Zhang

What is an HDI PCB?

An HDI PCB is a multilayer circuit board with microvia diameter within 5mil (0.127mm), line space/width of inner and outer circuit layers within 4m...
Posted in HDI PCB, PCB, PCB fabrication, PCB manufacturing

RS232 vs TTL

by Lily Zhang

RS232 vs TTL

What is RS232? When working with Serial Communication, you’ll bound to come across the term RS-232. What’s RS232 you may ask? RS232 is the first...