Licky's Column

High Speed Printed Circuit Board Design Tips

by Licky Li

High Speed Printed Circuit Board Design Tips

What are High-Speed Designs? High-speed printed circuit board designs are those in which signal integrity is affected or impacted by the other phys...
Posted in HDI PCB, PCB design

Top 10 Tips for High Speed PCB Design

by Licky Li

Top 10 Tips for High Speed PCB Design

The Top 10 Tips to Make Your First High Speed PCB Design Project a Success It wasn’t that long ago when the word “high speed” didn’t exist in the v...
Posted in HDI PCB, PCB design

What is PCB Via tenting?

by Licky Li

What is PCB Via tenting?

If you use printed circuit boards in your business applications, you may have heard about the idea of via tenting in printed circuit board construc...
Posted in #blind via, #burid via, #via in pcb, HDI PCB, PCB design, PCB manufacturing

Copper filling of blind microvias

by Licky Li

Copper filling of blind microvias

Vias, the holes through which stacked pads are electrically connected, are essential parts of printed circuit boards (PCBs). As electronic devices,...
Posted in #blind via, #via in pcb, HDI PCB, PCB, PCB design, Via covering, Via-in-pad

High Frequency PCB Layout Techniques

by Licky Li

High Frequency PCB Layout Techniques

Introduction: The components are developing towards high speed, low consumption, small volume and high anti-interference. PCB design is an importan...
Posted in HDI PCB, PCB design, PCB fabrication, PCB layout

Several factors for the increased temperature of printed circuit board and its solutions

by Licky Li

Several factors for the increased temperature of printed circuit board and its solutions

Summary：       We all know that the heat generated by the operation of the electronic device causes the internal temperature of the device to rise ...
Posted in HDI PCB, PCB, PCB design, PCB fabrication

How to prevent the PCB from being bended and warped when get through the reflow furnace

by Licky Li

How to prevent the PCB from being bended and warped when get through the reflow furnace

Everyone knows that PCBs are easy to be bended or warped when get through the reflow furnace. So how to avoid this situation, here are some advices...
Posted in HDI PCB, PCB, PCB design, PCB fabrication, PCB Layer stack-up, PCB layout, PCB manufacturing

The difference between immersion gold and gold plating

by Licky Li

The difference between immersion gold and gold plating

Gold plating: Gold plating is a method of depositing a thin layer of gold onto the surface of another metal through plating way. The gold particles...
Posted in Flexible PCB, FPC Flexible PCB, HDI PCB, PCB, PCB design, PCB fabrication

Halogen-Free Flexible Printed Board Material

by Licky Li

Halogen-Free Flexible Printed Board Material

Introduction: In recent years, due to the miniaturization and thinness of portable electronic products, the mounting space inside the machine and t...
Posted in Flexible PCB, HDI PCB, PCB, PCB design, PCB fabrication

Embedded system, what do you mean?

by Licky Li

Embedded system, what do you mean?

Technology continues to develop, every year and even months there must be the latest technological discoveries from researchers from technology com...
Posted in Aluminum enclosure, Aluminum Printed Circuit Board, HDI PCB, PCB design, PCB fabrication, pcba

3 Steps to determine / calculate number of PCB layers

by Licky Li

3 Steps to determine / calculate number of PCB layers

STEP 1: Choose initial number of layers 1 or 2 Layer PCBs – Home prototypingUse 1 or 2 Layer PCB only for very simple boards, breakouts or for som...
Posted in HDI PCB, PCB, PCB design, PCB fabrication, pcba

Blind vias VS Buried Vias

by Licky Li

Blind vias VS Buried Vias

Blind and buried vias are only available on boards with at least four layers. Unlike regular vias on a two layer board which connect the two surfac...
Posted in HDI PCB, PCB, PCB design, PCB fabrication