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An important part of the design process for PCBs is making sure that your boards are scored correctly so that they will work in your final assembly without issue. Scoring for printed circuit boards is a groove that is cut into the top and bottom surfaces of an array configuration of multiple boards or a PCB with a removable frame or rails.

One of the most common items that you will find if you take apart the electronics in your home is the circuit board. Printed circuit boards, or PCBs, are the brains of your devices and are responsible for making sure that it functions as designed. In order to make sure that your product is going to run as you need it to, you will want to design a PCB from scratch.

When you are ordering a large amount of printed circuit boards or are dealing with very small PCBs, you should consider having your boards supplied in pallet or array form. This is especially true if your product assembly house requires that your PCBs be built on panels with a border in order to streamline their process.

Around the turn of the century, the first fine-pitch ball grid array devices became popular. This was due to the fact that designers wanted to pack as much power and efficiency into as small a space as possible.

Learning about the different materials that make up your printed circuit boards will allow you to determine which you find absolutely necessary in order to get the PCBs that you need for your application. This is why AdvancedPCB helps clients make the best decisions for their project by giving all of the information necessary to analyze the choices at hand.

As devices get thinner and engineers use more surface mount components for their products, it is important to design and produce circuit boards with as close to absolute surface planarity as possible. Via tenting from AdvancedPCB is one of a few ways to easily prevent excess solder in via holes by covering them over with soldermask.

When you are in the process of designing your PCBs, you have a lot of decisions to make in order to get the end result that will best work for your application. One of these decisions is choosing which printed circuit board plating finish to use.

It seems nowadays that every few months there is another “product of the future” announced that is going to revolutionize how we live our lives. With advances in technology for consumer products, especially in the transportation and communications fields, we are now able to do more than we ever thought possible even a few years ago.

Knowing the requirements of your printed circuit board manufacturer is a crucial step in the design process because it could potentially limit your ability to get the PCBs you need for your exact application. At AdvancedPCB, a minimum of a 0.010" inner layer clearance is required.