Printed-circuit boards used to be works of art, and the PCB designer was an artist as well as a technician. Components had many different shapes, sizes, and colors, and the traces connecting them were ...

Gradually, however, PCB test-point-access problems proved to be more formidable than the problem of fabricating cost-effective boundary-scan-compliant digital devices, and board designers now can ...

A printed circuit board turns separate parts into a stable system that powers up, talks to peripherals, and survives real ...

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

Designing circuit boards for high speed applications requires special considerations. This you already know, but what exactly do you need to do differently from common board layout? Building on whe… ...