Demand Grows For Reducing PCB Defects


Board manufacturers are boosting their investment in inspection, test and analytics to meet the increasingly stringent demands for reliability in safety-critical sectors like automotive. This represents a significant shift from the past, where concerns about reliability primarily targeted the devices connected to printed circuit boards. But as SoCs become disaggregated into advanced packages... » read more

Looking Back at Board Test


Printed circuit board testing has been around as long as printed circuit boards, also known as printed circuit assemblies and printed wiring boards. PCB technology started in the early 20th century with Thomas Edison and other inventors. As boards shrink to fit inside wearable gadgets and other products with compact form factors, PCB test equipment vendors are addressing new challenges. Boar... » read more

Electronic Design Creation: Overcoming PCB Design Challenges


Think of all the parts that make up the human body: legs, hands, lungs, bones, muscles, and so forth. Yet we are more than mere parts and organs, more than materials and functions. We are human beings. If one part doesn’t work smoothly, all parts are affected. This paper describes how the principle of 'gestalt,' in which an entity is more than the sum of its parts, pertains to the process of ... » read more