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The Perfect BOM

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 […]

Newsletter – DFM with spring-loaded pins

Bring your product to market on time and within budget – join the Eurocircuits Community 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 […]

Thermal Vias

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 […]

Spring-loaded Pins

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 […]

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The Influence of Copper Distribution on PCB Quality

Bring your product to market on time and within budget – join the Eurocircuits Community Tool 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 […]

IPC-A-600 Acceptability of Printed Boards: Classes

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 […]

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Surviving Shortages Together

Bring your product to market on time and within budget – join the Eurocircuits Community 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 […]

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Applying Carbon Contacts to PCBs

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 […]

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Covering vias

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 […]

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Copper fills – mechanically speaking

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 […]

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Finding fiducials

This is the fifth in a series of articles where we discuss important topics in PCB design and manufacturing. Please follow us on social media and sign up to our mailing list to get our publications. Fiducials are markers that are used as a reference for placement or size; their name, interestingly, is derived from […]

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On the keepout

In this fourth article of our series about PCB design and manufacturing issues I’ll discuss keepouts, a design tool that when used correctly can save us from making costly mistakes. Keepouts are areas of the board where we ask our design tool to enforce some restrictions on what can and cannot be contained in that […]

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