Soldering to a PC board can be tricky: Too much heat can make the copper trace lift right off the board substrate. Use a soldering pencil rated at 15-25 watts, no more. (Watch the video; story ...

Abstract: Bottom terminated circuit components with their low cost, improved signal speeds and good thermal performances have made the use of these elements increasingly widespread in recent years.

Abstract: For electronic products operating under the vibration environment, generally solder joints fail due to break of the solder joints on the board at the high-stress position. How can we know ...

[Jack Gassett] is developing a new breakout board for an FPGA. The chip comes in a ball grid array (BGA) package which is notoriously difficult to solder reliably. Since he’s still in development, the ...

The general process of circuit board assembly goes like this: You order your PCBs. You also order your components. For surface mount components, you apply solder paste to the pads, put the components ...

RS Components (RS), the trading brand of Electrocomponents, the global distributor for engineers, has launched a 40-pin solder-tag board for the highly popular Raspberry Pi credit-card sized computer ...