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BGA PCB Design and Assembly One-Stop Solution

by Lily Zhang

BGA PCB Design and Assembly One-Stop Solution

Ball grid array (BGA) components are surface-mount ICs with solder balls at the bottom to connect the IC and PCB. In this article, you can read...

How to Clean Flux from PCBs?

by Lily Zhang

How to Clean Flux from PCBs?

  The manufacturers apply flux to solder the components on the PCB. There are different fluxes according to the PCB component for fixing them on th...

How to Design High Voltage PCB:8 Best Tips & Considerations

by Lily Zhang

How to Design High Voltage PCB:8 Best Tips & Considerations

High voltage PCB operates at greater voltages than the typical rail voltage. Mains-powered power supply, Inverters, and EV chargers are examp...

How to Test After Assembled PCB Board?

by Lily Zhang

How to Test After Assembled PCB Board?

PCB Assembly  is a complex procedure. Multifarious components are connected on a board, but the work does not end with assembling. The board un...

Testing PCBAs in a Prototype Environment

by Lily Zhang

Testing PCBAs in a Prototype Environment

Electrical PCBA testing finds anything from process defects to design issues. Process defects are faults that are created during the circuit board ...

6-Layer PCB Design and Applications

by Lily Zhang

6-Layer PCB Design and Applications

Most common boards are built on 4-layer PCBs as long as they do not have very high power requirements, high speed requirements on multiple layers, ...

BGA Routing Guide in Your PCB Layout and Stackup

by Lily Zhang

BGA Routing Guide in Your PCB Layout and Stackup

Not all components come in a BGA package, but those that do can have very high ball counts, fine pitch, and run at high speeds. These aspects of mo...

Methods for Failure Analysis in Circuit Board Systems

by Lily Zhang

Methods for Failure Analysis in Circuit Board Systems

Failure analysis has played an important role in technology development for a long time. For example, black boxes have revealed the cause of numero...

HDI Microvias & Printed Circuit Boards

by Lily Zhang

HDI Microvias & Printed Circuit Boards

The miniaturization of integrated circuits led to a revolution in smaller and more compact product design: HDI microvias are now an essential compo...

What to consider when designing and laying out a PCB

by Lily Zhang

What to consider when designing and laying out a PCB

To prevent lost time or costs later on down the line, you must be careful with your PCB design and layout. Function and reliability problems can ea...

A Guide to PCB Testing Methods

by Lily Zhang

A Guide to PCB Testing Methods

WHAT IS PCB TESTING? PCB testing is done only after the assembly process  is complete and a printed circuit board has passed all of its inspections...

PCB Design for 1-20 Layers: Know the Importance of Different PCB Layers

by Lily Zhang

PCB Design for 1-20 Layers: Know the Importance of Different PCB Layers

Printed circuit boards have been a part of electronic devices for several years now. They are found in industrial and consumer electronic devices s...