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PCB layout generally is not a task that many EE's are proficient at. They may even consider it somewhat beneath them and it is the work ...

Bond wires The standard bondwire is 1mil in diameter and 2mm in length.  It has very roughly 1nH/mm. [T. Lee, CMOS RF]  A D-PAK MOSFET (AO...

Altium Designer promotes hierarchical design, which seems to make sense.  It can help manage large designs and encourage design reuse.  Thos...

Backdrilling Backdrilling is a PCB design technique to remove stub from a through-hole.  It is to reduce reflection from the stub for the ...

Magnets flux density vs temperature Because thermal motion randomizes magnetic domain, the flux density of magnets decreases with increasi...

Tin Whisker Investigation NASA Goddard has a presentation on Tin Whisker on Toyota accelerator pedal position sensor failure.  It shows r...

Continued previous post. ARM7 ARM7 is a popular 32-bit architecture for microcontrollers; it has implemented in NXP (formerly Philips) ...