Friday 21 June 2013

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PCB Design Services An Overview


by Linda Maynard


Many view electronics as little more than modern day witchcraft, as they can't actually see how things work. It can be confusing to the majority but where would modern day man be without electronics. So if you don't know a resistor from a capacitor, but still need electronics in your device it makes sense to use professional PCB design services.

Electrical devices proliferate the world today, they are everywhere that you look. Your TV remote control for example, the television itself, and even within your vehicle you can find these devices. Each one of them has a common link, and that is that they all have printed circuit boards.

If ever you open a device and look inside you will notice these printed circuit boards. Quite often they are either brown or green in color. They seem to have an awful lot of components on them, and this is where people begin to get baffled.

To try and understand an electronic circuit in simplistic terms, maybe consider it as a very small electrical circuit. It follows the same basic rules, power enters a circuit, it does something, and then leaves, unless there is a break in the circuit. Think of the break like a light switch, when the switch is off the circuit is incomplete, and nothing happens. When you operate the switch the circuit is complete, and your light will illuminate.

When first looking at a PCB it does seem a bit bewildering. This is unless you can identify the components that you are seeing, and know what they are there for. Even so it does seem very small, with everything squashed in together.

The board itself is made from material layers bonded together to a uniform thickness. You will often notice small metal tracks on one side, these are used to conduct the current to where it is meant to be. On the other side you will see the components, sitting above a white etched layout plan.

This layout plan is a circuit that has been devised to carry out the operation that a customer wants. It also tells the engineer which device has to be placed where for the circuit to operate properly. They will also be working from a large paper schematic too, so the engineer will be checking off one against the other.

Once the theoretical aspect has been devised it is time to construct a life size example to test the circuit. Using the circuit diagrams mentioned previously, the correctly rated capacitor is placed into its position and soldered in place. This continues until all of the components have been correctly fitted to the board. The finished board can now be used to ensure that it will fit into the space allocated for it, and also that it does all that the client has asked for.

So although these electronic boards might not be as daunting as they first appear, it is all to easy to become confused by them. It is a sensible option to remove that confusion and make use of professional PCB design services. They are the experts, and will be able to do things faster and cheaper than others.




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