Learning to design custom PCB chips opens new possibilities for electronics projects. This tutorial explains how to create components that are not available in existing libraries and integrate them ...

For engineers, independent hardware developers, and technicians moving into professional hardware development, how you choose your PCB design package matters. It determines the types of designs you ...

The gap between schematic generation and PCB layout reveals a larger problem: Hardware design is still organized as a serial ...

The connection between mechanical and electrical concepts How to fit many components into a limited space. Proper communication is necessary when creating products in a team with diverse backgrounds.

The Ball Grid Array, or BGA package is no longer the exclusive preserve of large, complex chips on computer motherboards: today even simple microcontrollers are available with those little solder ...