PCB Design Best Practices: Six things to consider when making PCB component choices based on part footprints. All the examples in this article are developed using the NI Multisim design environment, ...

The complexity and density of electronics design has increased, partly due to the rise of the mobile industry, introducing new challenges for printed-circuit board (PCB) designers. Embedding ...

Electronic enclosures tend to have high thermal mass, which gives an opportunity to use them as a heat sink for a design. By ...

The quality of the soldering has a tremendous impact on the overall quality of the PCB. Through soldering, different parts of the PCB are connected to other electrical components to make a PCB ...

The first article in this series titled “The common silicon issues in analog IP integration” focused on system-on-chip (SoC) design issues related to incorporating analog IP. Here we begin expanding ...

If you’ve spent any time at all laying out your own circuit boards we’re sure you’ve run into the issue of not having the right component or package available in the standard libraries. If it’s a ...

If you’re anything like us, you have a closet full of old electronics, some broken, some obsolete. You can stop using those as paperweights with the help of this guide that shows you how to recycle ...

Schurter has introduced a series of through-hole PCB-mount common-mode chokes for use at between 10A and 50A and up to 300Vac or 450Vdc. For single-phase applications, DKIV-1 chokes are available with ...

For filtering three-phase and neutral on circuit boards, Schurter is offering the DKIH-4 series of four-line common mode chokes using nano-crystalline ring cores, with ratings from 10A to 40A. “The ...