We've been hanging out in Boston at the ESC show. Yesterday was a busy day with lot's to look at and lot's of folks at our booth. Some human, some not. The Freescale people, just a few booths down, brought... Read more
Parts change and so do vias. Our standard policy here is that open vias in pads are bad. We from time to time recommend ways to plug them. Generally, you have several options. Like this post shows. However, with vias... Read more
I'm traveling to Phoenix today. Or, allegedly, I'm traveling to Phoenix today. The plan was to drop in to the office, do some work and print some things out for the trip, which I did. Then off to the airport.... Read more
When you are creating a footprint in your favorite CAD program, or reusing someone else's footprint, double check the zero orientation. This post discusses the IPC-7351 specified zero rotation orientation. This picture on the left shows a library component with... Read more
