The topic of ElectroMagnetic Compatibility (EMC) is important for the functionality and security of electronic devices. Today’s designers have to deal with permanently increasing system frequencies, ...

PC-board layout sets the functional, electromagnetic interference (EMI), and thermal behavior of a power supply. Good layout from first prototyping on actually saves significant resources in EMI ...

Fundamental to careful system design of any DC/DC power converter is a well-planned and carefully executed printed circuit board (PCB) layout. An optimized layout leads to better performance, lower ...

Considerations for dividing analog and digital blocks. Decoupling techniques. Breaking down the board layers. How best to deal with grounding. Similar to building a house, it’s essential to create a ...

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 ...

The design behind this little Core i7 microATX motherboard really makes sense, but we should probably thank Intel first because both Core i7 processors and the X58 chipset are extremely efficient.

At first glance, it's not hard to assume that the Atom 230 processor lies under the largest heatsink used on the GC230D, which is also actively cooled. However, you'd be wrong to make such assumption, ...