Electronic Design

Common PCB Soldering Problems to Avoid

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 ...
EDN

Poor FPGA packaging causes PCB problems

Last month marked the first in a series of columns on the shortcomings of today's FPGA packages. This month, I will identify specific package problems. Before going into detail on the specifics, it's ...
Semiconductor Engineering

Demand Grows For Reducing PCB Defects

Board manufacturers are boosting their investment in inspection, test and analytics to meet the increasingly stringent demands for reliability in safety-critical sectors like automotive. This ...
EDN

Controller PCB problem solved

The year was 1996 and it was my second year with this Hard Disk Drive company. I had joined them as an EMC Engineer to provide EMC support to the PCB design engineers. Within a year I was being called ...
Ars Technica

A decades-old pollutant is still threatening orca populations

Forty years ago, the US banned production of a class of organic pollutants called polychlorinated biphenyls, or PCBs. International efforts to deal with PCB contamination have had substantial success.
Electronic Design

Common PCB Soldering Problems to Avoid (.PDF Download)

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 ...