While working at a company that makes automotive embedded control systems, my colleagues and I set out to create a new PCB layout for one of our products. The product worked fine, but we needed to ...

A good switching power supply requires a good printed circuit board. In order to make an efficient one, the PCB designer should understand the phenomenon behind the operation of the typical switching ...

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 ...

Murata has introduced the GRU series, said to be the world's thinnest embedded monolithic capacitor for substrates. Using advanced ceramic technology, the 0402 size device, measuring 1 x 0.5 x 0.15mm, ...

Researchers at the Fraunhofer IAF have integrated their monolithically integrated GaN power ICs using PCB embedding technology as a half bridge circuit, including gate and DC-link capacitors. By this ...

Editor's note: This article addresses the need for designers of printed circuit boards for nextgen ICs to be savvy about package-on-package technology. New ways of working with sub-assembly printed ...

Power system designers are constantly under pressure to attain larger power densities and improved conversion efficiencies, whether it is for data servers for the internet of things or data centers.

At the 2015 IEEE International Symposium on Electromagnetic Compatibility and Signal Integrity held last month in Santa Clara, I attended two technical presentations related to PCB power planes. One, ...

Researchers at the Fraunhofer-Institute for Applied Solid State Physics IAF have integrated their monolithically integrated GaN power ICs using PCB embedding technology as a half bridge circuit, ...

The study population was recruited between 2003 and 2006 and consisted of former capacitor workers who had been employed by GE for at least 3 months between 1946 and 1977 at either of two capacitor ...