Electronic Design

Do Circuit Boards Need More Wires?

Printed circuit boards support high-speed serial connections—for now. Faster SerDes is forcing designers to look at cabling alternatives. This file type includes high resolution graphics and ...
Business Wire

3M Cover Tape Makes Today's Low-Profile Circuit Boards Possible

ST. PAUL, Minn.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Ever-shrinking electronic component sizes, driven by wafer-level chip scale packaging, demand that circuit board manufacturers deliver performance, speed and ...
Forbes

Amphenol Printed Circuits - A Window On The U.S. PCB Industry

Printed circuit boards provide an infrastructure to support and connect electronic components, and are used in almost every electronic device I recently visited Amphenol APH Printed Circuits in Nashua ...
Hackaday

The Components Are INSIDE The Circuit Board

Through-hole assembly means bending leads on components and putting the leads through holes in the circuit board, then soldering them in place, and trimming the wires. That took up too much space and ...
Electronic Design

Do Circuit Boards Need More Wires? (.PDF Download)

I remember when single-sided printed circuit boards (PCBs) with wires dominated many markets—like whitegoods—because it was possible to keep costs down. This is still done in some instances, but these ...