The Circuit Talk®Blog
Hints, Tips, and News for Electronics Engineers, start-up entrepreneurs and makers
Tab and v-score
PCB Panelization Techniques
PCBs are panelized when you need or want to run more than one board through a pick and place machine…
gravitational lensing 824×462
The Spectrum of Dark Matter
In 1915, Albert Einstein predicted the existence of gravity waves. 100 years after that, the LIGO observatory system first detected…
SC reflow KL03 800-439
Safety Margin in Electronics Manufacturing
All systems require some type of safety margin or operational tolerance. In analog electronics, we talk about headroom: the difference…
Panel 1024
PCB Panelization
Small quantity prototype PC boards are often assembled “one up.” This means that a single board is put into the…
Wave soldering
Wave Soldering
With surface mount parts being so thoroughly entrenched, one might think that through-hole parts (sometimes written as thru-hole) and through-hole…
PCB layout ready to save cropped
The Anxiety of the Last “save”
I’ve been designing electronics since the days when PCB layout was often done by hand with black tape and etch…