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Common PCB Design Mistakes

With PCB Design re-spins costing in excess of £15,000 (not taking into account lost opportunity) eliminating unnecessary mistakes is an important company objective. Read on to find out more about ways to avoid wasting precious time and money, and to streamline your work process.

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The impact of high-speed PCB design

With the continuous and increasing demand for electronic devices, designers are persistently finding ways to enhance performance and put out the best electronic product in the market.

Simultaneously, the designers need to account for the possible effects of high-speed signals in a PCB layout, considering that increasing clock frequencies and decreasing rise times may result in fluctuating signal or signal integrity issues.

You must use higher frequencies to overcome this issue. Hence, higher frequencies, ranging from 50MHz to 3GHz, have become a staple in designing PCBs.

Implementing effective high-speed PCB design is vital to meet and support real-world demands.

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Tenting PCB vias

Tenting vias for PCB designs provides added protection from damage and aids soldering during PCB assembly.

Keep reading to learn why this process is important, what its risks are, and how to reduce those as best as possible.

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High power PCBs

High-power PCBs are printed circuit boards that are designed to handle higher currents and withstand high temperatures.

There is now a growing demand for high-power PCBs. This is because modern and up-to-date electronic devices need to operate at faster speeds due to their more advanced components that need to combat current needs and complexities.

This blog is going to discuss what high-power PCBs are, what they’re used for, and the challenges in designing them.

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