Electronics Manufacturing Technical Articles

Jul 31, 2009

Orchid Technologies Engineering and Consulting, Inc.

Switching high power electrical signals requires in-depth knowledge of isolation, cross talk, and safety techniques. High power electrical signals can generate large voltage or current pulse, when switched. Isolation between high power signals and lo...

Jul 31, 2009

Orchid Technologies

AdvancedTCA Carrier Blade electronics design demands the most from any engineering team. A Freescale Power-PC MPC8548 supported by 400MHz DDR2 RAM makes this 32-bit, 1.3 GHz processor a performance champion. 48 Lanes of PCI Express peripheral support...

Jul 29, 2009

Aqueous Technologies Corporation

While the origin of the phrase "may you live in interesting times" is widely disputed, the fact that we indeed live in an interesting time is certainly not. While record bank failures and declines in stock values, only rivaled by the Depression era, ...

Jul 29, 2009

Orchid Technologies

This microprocessor based steering angle sensor provides real-time steering angle data over the CAN-Bus. Automotive electronics present demanding requirements to the electronic product designer. High volume, low cost and highly rugged, feature packed...

Jul 29, 2009

Orchid Technologies Engineering and Consulting, Inc.

This low cost, miniature, brushless DC motor controller packs enormous power into a tiny electronics package. Designed to drive 48-Volt brushless DC motors up to 1400 watts, this miniature controller may be the smallest in its class. Small physical s...

Jul 29, 2009

Orchid Technologies Engineering and Consulting, Inc.

Building Access and Security is critical to our nation's needs. Orchid's building access technology integrates precision automatic door motion control electronics with sophisticated communications technology to enable low-cost networked building ac...

Jul 22, 2009

Endicott Interconnect Technologies, Inc.

This paper deals with the thermal effects of joule heating in a high interconnect density, thin core, buildup, organic flip chip substrate....

Jul 15, 2009

Vi TECHNOLOGY

The increasing demand for smaller & smaller portable electrical devices is leading to the increasing usage of extremely small components in the SMT assembly lines....

Jul 09, 2009

Steve Stach, Austin American Technology

Sometimes you just cannot clean with water. Good examples of this are: circuits with batteries attached, cleaning prior to encapsulation, ionic cleanliness testing, and non-sealed or other water sensitive parts. High impedance or high voltage circuit...

Jul 01, 2009

ZESTRON America

During the last 5 years, the processes to remove flux residues especially for lead-free and challenging geometries have demonstrated new cleaning obstacles which have to be overcome...