Surface mount devices have gotten really small, so small that a poorly timed sneeze can send your 0603 and 0402 parts off to live with the dust motes lurking at the edge of your bench. While soldering ...

In the first two articles of SI/PI MasterClass, I showed how you can create simple fixtures to characterize small discrete components. In “Solder-wick trick characterizes bypass caps” [1], you can ...

(Yeah, we don’t know what that title means either.) But holding your PCBs down in one place and nicely registered while you spread solder paste over them is a problem that needs solving, and [Carsten] ...

The quality of the soldering has a tremendous impact on the overall quality of the PCB. Through soldering, different parts of the PCB are connected to other electrical components to make a PCB ...

In my previous post, Solder-wick trick characterizes bypass caps, you saw a very simple home-made fixture [1]. It takes only two coaxial cables and some solder wick ...

Fontana, CA. ECT announced it is leveraging its experience in probe and receptacle design and manufacture to provide cost-effective and reliable customer-focused solutions for challenging in-circuit ...

From test coupons and burn-in chambers to ICT and flying probes, effective factory testing is essential for delivering reliable products and maintaining process control. Factory testing comes in ...