Creating a bill-of-materials (BOM) for electronics is sometimes an underappreciated art form. It’s a process critical to projects’ longevity and success, yet it doesn’t always get the credit it deserves. The primary challenge is reconciling the many criteria competing for a BOM line item, or ‘socket’: price, board space and technology, availability, sales-reps attention, evaluation […]
The perfect BOM is important for correct price calculation and seamless component sourcing The Bill of Material (BOM) is the list that contains all electronic parts required to assemble a PCB. Based on the BOM list, the components are purchased and picked for the assembly of the PCB. To ensure that the transfer from design […]
Practical tip: Design for manufacturing with spring-loaded pins Cordless landline telephone or needle bed adapters are typical applications for spring-loaded pins, known as Pogo Pins. These come in a wide range of shapes and designs which makes them an excellent choice when a quick and reliable electrical connection is required that can also be easily […]
Electronics designers who define circuits where frequencies of several Gigahertz form the basis of their application are in a select group of specialists. These designers need PCBs built with special materials suitable for these frequencies as FR-4 is only suitable for frequencies in the Megahertz range. In recent years the need for this kind of […]
So many of the devices we use daily are connected via the internet (IoT) making our daily activities easier and with this comes the need for faster and faster connections (USB3, 5G, etc..). It has become the norm to connect to the internet whether it is to control your central heating, manage your security or […]
We understand from customers that they’d like a flexible board in order to avoid a connector (and sometimes a cable) when fitting PCBs into a small enclosure. This makes sense since avoiding such connections is a good way to reduce costs and avoid signal integrity issues caused by impedance mismatches at the interfaces. Flex to […]
But what if you only need small amounts of heat to be dissipated? We recommend opting for vias filled with thermal paste (thermal vias) as this may be sufficient to improve the thermal conductivity of your FR-4 PCBs. Our IMS pool PCBs offer a great way to dissipate a lot of heat. However, it’s not […]
Do your PCBs have an issue with dissipating heat? Then Eurocircuits has a solution for you. Our IMS pool offers a cost-effective solution using ‘Insulated Metal Surface’ that dissipates heat efficiently away from the source. Some components may need passive or active cooling to function correctly. For example, voltage regulators, high-current LEDs, MOSFETS, and powerful […]
The Basics for a seamless start to Manufacturing It is well known that a correct and well-thought-out design determines the manufacturability and quality of the subsequent electronic assembly and thus the manufacturing costs and time to market. These prototyping tips support an industrial-quality design that is right the first time. PCB Checker: Correcting rule violations […]
Sometimes our electrical connections need to be solid, but temporary; or, it is subjected to enough vibration to undo it; or, we need to make or break many connections at once, all over the board. In those cases, the usual combination of sockets, plugs, and cables may not be ideal, so we might consider spring-loaded […]
Tools and tips for good copper distribution Evenly distributed copper across layers, and choosing symmetrical buildups (stackups), are two important ways for avoiding PCB manufacturing quality issues, and problems during component assembly. We explain below why that is. Copper thickness and planarity (within tolerances) are two important PCB quality criteria. When copper is unevenly distributed […]
The IPC-A-600 guideline describes the acceptance criteria for printed circuit boards that function as a benchmark used by manufacturers and their customers. This set of rules is intended to ensure that flawless shipped PCBs and the electronic devices or equipment that they are part of function reliably. The IPC-A-600 describes minimum requirements that trained professionals […]
