For reliability, designers must create flex circuits that are neither too thick nor bend too much. • Every flex circuit has a neutral-bend axis. • Smaller circuit thickness reduces the risk of damage ...

Most every device and electronic piece of equipment is outfitted with a printed circuit board (PCB), including smartphones, TVs, appliances, and more. You know the composite. The boards are laminated ...

Welcome to the final installment of Macworld’s Design Basics series. So far, we’ve covered the importance of proximity (placing related information closer together to form a visual framework), ...

Switching power supply users used to be happy to get peak efficiencies near 90% at an operating point around 88% of full load. Today, peak efficiencies above 90% are achievable, and the challenge is ...

• The overall design determines basic drive mechanisms. • Motor-gearing combinations typically determine gear reduction ratios and other key parameters. It can be difficult to specify drive components ...

While microcontroller specs may be the first thing engineers look at when deciding on a device for their system, the ecosystem that surrounds the microcontroller is certainly very important, and ...

Excerpted from Digital Receiver Handbook: Basics of Software RadioSixth Edition, this series of articles from Pentek shows how digital receivers, the fundamental building block for software radio, can ...