Now it’s time to take that schematic, assign footprints to parts, and design a circuit board. The completed schematic for our board All PCB design tools have different methods of associating the ...

and a few inductors with non-standard footprints; a combination that would typically need you to sit down in front of a PCB editor for a few hours, and that’s certainly not including the 3D models.

Outsourcing PCB assembly is challenging when design and manufacturing are separate. DSL Electronic Manufacture bridges this ...

In February 2017, I wrote a column titled “ An Afternoon with Naka ” in which Hayao Nakahara (or Naka to his friends) – a true PCB veteran embarking on his 60 th year in the industry – described the ...