Printed circuit boards, the panels found in virtually every electronic device, were once a cornerstone of high-tech manufacturing in New England. Massachusetts alone was home to 17 companies churning ...

Printed-circuit boards (PC boards or PCBs) are literally the foundation of many of our electronic products. These copper-clad boards – often but not always using glass-epoxy FR-4 substrate, but ...

Printed circuit board motors replace wire windings with copper traces and report about 7% higher efficiency, helping cut ...

Yes, you can whip up a design for a printed circuit board, send it out to one of the many fab houses, and receive a finished, completed board in a week or two. There are quick-turn assembly houses ...

German semiconductor maker Infineon Technologies announced it’s making printed circuit boards (PCBs) that dissolve in water. Sourced from UK startup Jiva Materials, the plant-based Soluboard could ...

Go with DEFAULT.TCH, unless you are doing something special like an ISA or PCI board. Select the *.MNL file you made a note of in Capture. Save the layout file. This is the file you will open to make ...

Printed Circuit Boards have to be the most common piece of tech you’ll find almost anywhere. But exactly how much do you know about them? Here we will discuss a few facts about PCBs that you might not ...

Every electronic device relies on a printed circuit board, or PCB, to connect its parts and make it work, from smartphones and laptops to simple household gadgets. However, this essential component ...

A new type of printed circuit board (PCB) could drastically reduce the amount of electronic waste that ends up in landfills. Although most PCBs are difficult to recycle, such is not the case with this ...

The mounting holes are treated just like components. Add them just like you did the header, except use the Layout library and the footprint is MHOLE 1. Now we need to add the header pins to the nets.