Learn about key strategies for testing a PCB design at the system and component level, including the effective deployment of test points. The importance of properly integrating test points into a PCB ...

Through-hole assembly means bending leads on components and putting the leads through holes in the circuit board, then soldering them in place, and trimming the wires. That took up too much space and ...

Circuit breakers are critical components that allow the power distribution system to operate safely and reliably. As NETA ...

The IEEE 1149.1 boundary-scan standard, developed more than 10 years ago to test otherwise untestable PCBs, has been pressed into service to perform a variety of functions that weren't clearly ...

[Jack Gassett] is developing a new breakout board for an FPGA. The chip comes in a ball grid array (BGA) package which is notoriously difficult to solder reliably. Since he’s still in development, the ...