The quality of the soldering has a tremendous impact on the overall quality of the PCB. Through soldering, different parts of the PCB are connected to other electrical components to make a PCB ...

Preventing plating and soldering voids is about testing new manufacturing processes and analyzing the results. Plating and soldering voids usually have an identifiable cause, such as the type of ...

Assembling with a stencil is just that much more convenient – it’s a huge timesaver, and your components no longer need to be individually touched with a soldering iron for as many times as they have ...

PCB Design Best Practices: Six things to consider when making PCB component choices based on part footprints. All the examples in this article are developed using the NI Multisim design environment, ...

Solder pins have been the interface of choice for power modules for many years. New press-fit pins take the assembly properties of power modules a step further: the solder-less assembly of the modules ...

If you’ve spent any time at all laying out your own circuit boards we’re sure you’ve run into the issue of not having the right component or package available in the standard libraries. If it’s a ...

EMS companies who produce PCBA’s have been using stencils for decades, to apply solder paste to boards, but this traditional method may one day be a thing of the past. Adam Harsant, Director at ...