PCBs are panelized when you need or want to run more than one board through a pick and place machine at the same time. Read more about the “whys” here. And while you’re getting fa
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The Brain to PC Board Interface
At first glance, that headline might seem to be referring to A/I. The image is from OpenAI’s Dall-E, but the message of this post really is much more down to earth than that. It’s about
The Spectrum of Dark Matter
In 1915, Albert Einstein predicted the existence of gravity waves. 100 years after that, the LIGO observatory system first detected those waves, confirming that old Albert was right. We built a few
Safety Margin in Electronics Manufacturing
All systems require some type of safety margin or operational tolerance. In analog electronics, we talk about headroom: the difference between design signal level and the point at which the system
How Many Parts Do You Need?
First, take a look at our 10/10/10 components attrition guidelines Surface mount pick and place (PnP) machines are a marvel of technology. The PnP heads on the fastest machines can be so fast, that
FAB and Assembly Drawings for Turnkey PCB Assembly
A successful PCB assembly operation requires a lot of data. In a perfect world, all of that data would be in a nice IPC-2581 intelligent CAD file. Sadly, we don’t live in a perfect world. Who
What About Binary?
Despite having learned about binary arithmetic and ASCII encoding a long time ago, I still sometimes stumble on some of the concepts like big endian and two’s complement. Fortunately, I don&#
Cost Reduction in Electronics Design
While supply chain and labor shortages may get much of the attention these days, the world of design is not all that different than it was a few years ago. We still have to give focus to things lik
Engineering Stress
Designing electronics is one of the more enjoyable things I do. My day job here at Screaming Circuits is marketing but my past and my after-hours hobby time are littered with electronics design. Si
Living With Today’s Supply Chain
We are finally starting to hear some good news relating to the supply chain. Unfortunately, most of the good news has a multi-year lead time before we’ll be seeing the effects. For now, it