Sunday, December 17, 2017

The top 10 crystal oscillators! – SnapEDA Blog

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Thursday, December 14, 2017

ZESTRON - Clean PCB Experts

ACADEMY - ZESTRON Americas:

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Sunday, November 26, 2017

Calculating Voltage Drops - Saturn PCB Toolkit

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Example:

Start by getting the Conductor's DC Resistance

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0.04445 Ohms in the above example


Select the Ohm's Law tab, Solve for Volts, enter the trace DC resistance and current.

Then select Solve.

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That's it !

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Tuesday, October 10, 2017

Landless Vias

You may be surprised to know that HP Test equipment has used landless vias (no annular rings) for several years.

HP’s studies show the landless vias can be more reliable than vias with pads.

Benefits include higher routing density (more traces per layer) which may reduce the total number of layers required in the PCB stackup.

Every layer pair in the stackup is approximately a 20% cost adder.

The trick is to find the fabricator that knows the process for plating via barrels with no annular rings.