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Making the Most of Your Crystal Oscillator 18 min Blog

“Blindly” adopting what a crystal oscillator data sheet says usually results in adequate frequency stability. An oscillator requires the phase shift around the loop to be 360° and this total phase shift must be a precise and stable oscillation frequency.

When Should You Use Flexible Printed Circuit Cables? 5 min Blog

The two predominant reasons for using flex or rigid flex, are to solve a packaging issue or reduce the space and weight of the electronics package. These two are often interrelated and space, weight and packaging, (SWaP) will continue to be a driving force in PCB design.

Digital On-Demand Manufacturing and a 32-Bit MCU PCB for Everyone 6 min Altium Designer Projects

Eli Hughes shows us how on-demand manufacturing through a PCB manufacturer's cloud platform helped him quickly produce a set of high-quality prototypes for a MCU board.

Through Thick And Thin — How Do You Get High Current Into a High Speed PCB? 6 min Blog

The typical large currents in today’s high speed PCB designs require a different approach. This article will describe the stackup requirements associated with these very large current PCBs and how to design them so that they can be readily manufactured properly.

PCB Manufacturer Trends and Challenges with Summit Interconnect 19 min Thought Leadership

Learn more about PCB manufacturing trends from Clay Swain, Senior Vice President of Sales and Marketing, and Gerry Partida, Senior Field Applications Engineer.

What Happens to PCIe Signals Traversing Blind Vias at Higher Speeds? 13 min Blog

In our one, two and three-day courses, which we conduct at technical and trade conferences as well as at private

How to Approach Microvia Reliability Issues With Jim Brown of GreenSource 2 min OnTrack

Many people struggle with microvia reliability issues. Listen to Jim Brown discuss how GreenSource has handled many of these problems