Lily's Column

What is a Press-Fit Hole PCB ?

by Lily Zhang

What is a Press-Fit Hole PCB ?

Many contemporary electronics nowadays use press-fitting component technologies to provide their products with additional features. Press-fit techn...
Posted in PCB, PCB fabrication, PCB manufacturing

What is Half-Hole PCB ?

by Lily Zhang

What is Half-Hole PCB ?

Mainly for board-on-board contacts, plated half-holes PCBs or castellated holes are used, often when two printed circuit boards are mixed with vari...
Posted in PCB, PCB design, PCB fabrication, PCB manufacturing

5 things to avoid when Designing PCB

by Lily Zhang

5 things to avoid when Designing PCB

While trying to prototype a PCB design, you will experience some common slip-ups and even you will experience some these repetitively. It is smar...
Posted in PCB, PCB design, PCB fabrication, PCB layout

10 PCB Design Tips

by Lily Zhang

10 PCB Design Tips

All of us want to design PCB prototypes as cheap as possible and as fast as possible, without many trials and errors. All things considered, when y...
Posted in PCB, PCB design, PCB fabrication, PCB layout, PCB manufacturing

What is Rigid Flex PCB?

by Lily Zhang

What is Rigid Flex PCB?

A rigid flex PCB combines a hardboard and a flexible circuit. The manufacturing process involves the use of traditional rigid boards; however, some...
Posted in Flexible PCB, FPC, FPC Flexible PCB, PCB, PCB fabrication, rigid-flex pcb

Material Characteristics of a Rigid-Flex Board

by Lily Zhang

Material Characteristics of a Rigid-Flex Board

Typical Rigid-Flex PCB Material Feature Material Description Specification Flexible Laminate Polyimide (adhesive-less or adhesive) Rigid Lami...
Posted in Flexible PCB, FPC, FPC Flexible PCB, PCB, PCB design, PCB fabrication, rigid-flex pcb

Heat conduction and heat dissipation of Aluminum PCB design

by Lily Zhang

Heat conduction and heat dissipation of Aluminum PCB design

The problem of heat conduction and heat dissipation is an important part of the current lighting design. It can also be said that if the heat condu...
Posted in Aluminum Printed Circuit Board, MCPCB, PCB, PCB fabrication

5 Methods for Coping the Deformation of the Film During PCB Reverse Engineering

by Lily Zhang

5 Methods for Coping the Deformation of the Film During PCB Reverse Engineering

In the PCB copying process, there will be some special circumstances that make it difficult for people to make a difference. Some of them are impro...
Posted in PCB, PCB design, Reverse Engineering

PCB Reverse Engineering

by Lily Zhang

PCB Reverse Engineering

1) Why need PCB Reverse Engineering? If we lost the engineering data, but the product still need continue to be produced. In this case, only the o...
Posted in PCB, PCB design, Reverse Engineering

13 Common PCB Soldering Problems to Avoid

by Lily Zhang

13 Common PCB Soldering Problems to Avoid

Hand soldering has always been considered a hallmark skill to have in every electronics maker’s repertoire of geeky skills. Soldering has never bee...
Posted in HDI PCB, PCB, PCB design, PCB fabrication, soldering

Avoiding the 7 Most Common PCB Assembly Defects

by Lily Zhang

Avoiding the 7 Most Common PCB Assembly Defects

Why Do Circuit Boards Fail PCB Assembly? For prototyping, low-volume, and high-volume production, PCB assembly is an important stage of manufacturi...
Posted in MCPCB, PCB, PCB design, PCB fabrication, pcba, smt, soldering

The difference of PCB Back Drilling and Controlled Depth Drilling

by Lily Zhang

The difference of PCB Back Drilling and Controlled Depth Drilling

What is back drilling or controlled depth drilling in PCB? PCB Back drilling is one of the special controlled depth drilling (NPTH) in the loop of ...
Posted in HDI PCB, High-frequency PCBs, PCB, PCB design, PCB fabrication