Today’s electronic designs are rapidly shrinking – components such as micro-BGAs and CSPs (Chip Scale Packages) are becoming common even in everyday industrial applications. However, integrating these smaller components often pushes traditional PCB manufacturing to its limits. Eurocircuits’ HDI Pool Service bridges this gap by providing an efficient and cost-effective method to incorporate advanced features […]
On a recent visit to our factories in Eger I asked the PCB manufacturing manager, József Lengyel, and his team, what are the top ten customer-data issues that they experience. The answer was unanimous and immediate: designers using the tightest design rules on the entire board instead of just to the specific places where they […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
Electronic components are increasingly difficult or even sometimes impossible to source. The only way to help overcome this situation is to use our Parts Reservation service. See our article below. Even with these challenges our production will continue throughout the summer and our customer support team will be available and ready to help when you […]
Conductive carbon ink is added to a finished PCB in order to provide a robust and long-lasting electrical interface with another mechanical component, such as a key or dial. It does that in two main ways: it raises the shallow copper contact above the surface of the PCB; and, it protects the PCB contact from […]
Vias are plated holes that connect signals between layers, and are typically smaller than ordinary plated holes that are used for soldering through-hole components. What also makes them special is that they’re usually not the destination of a signal, so they create a physical ‘interruption’ that sometimes makes an impact on functionality. Types of vias […]
This is the sixth and final article of this series about PCB design and manufacturing topics. I hope that you’ve enjoyed it and will continue to follow up on our other publications until we return with series 2! Copper fills — or copper pours — are one of those topics that’s deceivingly simple, but their […]
