When considering the long term reliability of a PCB, you must take into account the vias that you have on your board. While an invaluable and essential part of board design, vias introduce weaknesses and affect...

The optimal way of balancing cost and quality in PCB design and...

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Many designers and assemblers do not know what is readily available in high current heavy copper PCB. Heavy copper boards can contain three ounces to twenty ounces of copper conductors. Quite surprisingly, a heavy copper PCB (ten ounces) can also have very...

 While it is possible to use the solder paste layer gerber file as the basis for a stencil with a standard thickness, the result will be acceptable, at best, and at worst, completely unusable. However, spending time to refine and improve the basic solder...