PCB design guidelines are created as benchmarks for circuit design engineers to meet the industry standards. Following these guidelines will ensure better manufacturability and robust product ...

After Burlington High School closed in September 2020 because PCB contamination was detected inside, some concerned parents banded together to create a group called Open BHS. The members — a ...

Polychlorinated biphenyls, an infamous industrial toxic largely banned for three decades, still lurk in some unexpected places, including caulk used in schools and other buildings from 1950 to 1978.

This application note is intended to assist customers in designing products that comply with both EMI and ESD standards using Micrel’s 10/100 family of Ethernet products. The printed circuit board ...

This article provides common-sense printed-circuit-board (PCB) processing edge and array guidelines that should give most assemblers a good chance at efficiently populating the PCB assemblies (PCBAs) ...

NC State University closed Poe Hall, home of the College of Education and Department of Psychology, in November 2023 after tests detected toxic chemicals. The university and federal health officials ...

Via in pad seems to be one of the hot topics these days. It's a bit of a tough one, too. The SMT guys pretty much always say, "don't ever do it." However, with certain parts, the component ...

Parents whose Burlington High School students have been displaced due to air quality issues at the school are questioning whether the state's PCB guidelines are too strict. The Vermont Department of ...