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		<title>Routing Signals Between PWB Layers &#8211;  Part 2 An Emissions Example</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 01 May 2012 08:34:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Routing Signals Between PWB Layers -  Part 2, An Emissions Example Figure 1. Relative Emissions for Two Paths (one passes from top to bottom layer (plot with peaks) and the other stays on one side) Abstract: Printed wiring board, PWB, signal paths must often change layers in a board stackup. Under some conditions this can [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Xantrex 300V 4A Power Supply Teardown Video</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 24 Apr 2012 10:10:49 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Here is a another video from David Jones of the EEV Blog. It is always interesting when he tears something else apart! Enjoy! Have any comments, leave them below.]]></description>
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		<title>Bare Printed Circuit Board Electrical Test</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 13 Apr 2012 17:34:58 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Bare Printed Circuit Board Electrical Test Following the manufacturing process of the PCBs we can perform a visual inspection in order to find any problems with a board.  That works fine for a two layer pcb.  For multi-layer PCBs it is almost impossible to visually inspect the internal layers once the board is completed.  Visual [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Routing Signals Between PWB Layers Part 1</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 27 Mar 2012 17:16:39 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Routing Signals Between PWB Layers -  Part 1, An ESD Example Here is another in our guest blog posts from Doug Smith.  You can learn more about Doug at his website www.emcesd.com. Figure 1. Signal Current Flow in a Layer Transition Abstract: Printed wiring board, PWB, signal paths must often change layers in a board [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Electronics Thermal Heatsink Design Tutorial</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 20 Mar 2012 17:36:56 +0000</pubDate>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://bayareacircuits.com/?p=1371</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Here is another great video from Dave Jones of EEVBlog. A follow on from some of the recent blogs that have involved basic thermal heatsink calculation. This time around Dave takes you though the basic theory of thermal design and how heatsink calculations work. Then there are some real world temperature measurements to see how [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Embedded Magnetics Technology Overview</title>
		<link>http://bayareacircuits.com/embedded-magnetics-technology-overview/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 13 Mar 2012 17:50:57 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[This is a blog post of a recent paper written by Jim Quilici.  Jim is an electrical engineer working on new technology uses for magnetics in electronics.  This is post is a recent paper Jim wrote for the IPC Apex show.  He is also a Bay Area Circuits customer. Jim Quilici Radial Electronics El Dorado [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Rout and Fabrication of Printed Circuit Boards</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 06 Mar 2012 16:59:39 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[For the next in our PCB101 series we will be talking about the final fabrication on the board. Once we finished applying the board finishes mentioned in our last post in this series it is time to cut our rout out the individual boards. The boards can be routed out as individual small boards or [...]]]></description>
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		<title>PCB Protection Can be Compromised by Ground Structure</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 27 Feb 2012 17:29:27 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[This post is a guest post from Doug Smith.  Doug is an electrical engineer who trains other electrical engineers in EMC Design.  His website emcesd.com is a wealth of information.  We appreciate his contribution to our site. Figure 1. PCB Layout with Noise and Signal Ground Areas Abstract: Printed Circuit Board designers sometimes place protective devices on [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Makerbot Thing-O-Matic 3D Printer Time Lapse Build</title>
		<link>http://bayareacircuits.com/makerbot-thing-o-matic-3d-printer-time-lapse-build/</link>
		<comments>http://bayareacircuits.com/makerbot-thing-o-matic-3d-printer-time-lapse-build/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 22 Feb 2012 17:21:35 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I wonder if you have ever seen one of these 3D printers.  They are used to make quick prototype designs and even can be used to make final production products. They are quite an amazing piece of technology.  There are several ways that the process works but basically it is taking a polymer and applying [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Printed Circuit Board Finishes</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 12 Feb 2012 21:56:31 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[In this post I wanted to cover some of the more common finish types that are used in the PCB Manufacturing process.  After all the many processes are done to get to this point there are still a few steps left but we are getting very close to being finished. Most finishes are applied after [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Can Ferrite Cores Increase Emissions</title>
		<link>http://bayareacircuits.com/can-ferrite-cores-increase-emissions/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 30 Jan 2012 12:12:09 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[This post is a guest post from Doug Smith.  Doug is an electrical engineer who trains other electrical engineers in EMC Design.  His website emcesd.com is a wealth of information.  We appreciate his contribution to our site. If you have any comments or questions please post them below and we will have Doug answer them [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Agilent LCR Meter Teardown &#8211; Video Post</title>
		<link>http://bayareacircuits.com/agilent-lcr-meter-teardown-video-post/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 18 Jan 2012 16:46:10 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Ok, something a little bit different in this blog post. Not sure if you have heard of Dave Jones from Australia?  He is an Electrical Engineer making a big splash on YouTube. One of my favorite things to watch is how he takes a product that you might be using in your design or assembly [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Outer Layer Image and Soldermask</title>
		<link>http://bayareacircuits.com/outer-layer-image-and-soldermask/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 11 Jan 2012 00:09:33 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>pbrissette</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Alright let us do a quick re-cap of what we have covered so far. We have given an overview of some basic materials and the initial process for developing imaging for inner layers. We have covered the lamination and drill process. Now we are coming down the home stretch. Now that the panels are drilled [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Lamination and Drill of Printed Circuit Boards</title>
		<link>http://bayareacircuits.com/lamination-and-drill-of-printed-circuit-boards/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 16 Nov 2011 23:47:19 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>pbrissette</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[In our last post we learned how the inner core of a 4 layer PCB is processed prior to adding the outside layers. In this post we will take about the next part of our &#8220;sandwich&#8221; construction. The now etched panels with traces will need to go through an AOI or Automated Optical Inspection. Inner [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Pizza, Pop and PCBs at Bay Area Circuits</title>
		<link>http://bayareacircuits.com/pizza-pop-and-pcbs-at-bay-area-circuits/</link>
		<comments>http://bayareacircuits.com/pizza-pop-and-pcbs-at-bay-area-circuits/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 02 Nov 2011 20:10:35 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>pbrissette</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I just wanted to thank Angela Alexander from Iconnect007.com for attending our workshop and doing this write up.  Angela also took the pictures you see here as well. &#160; Recently I was invited to Bay Area Circuits for an evening of Pizza, Pop, and PCBs. The event was organized by Peter Brissette, Marketing Manager at [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Multi Layer PCB Image Process</title>
		<link>http://bayareacircuits.com/multi-layer-pcb-image-process/</link>
		<comments>http://bayareacircuits.com/multi-layer-pcb-image-process/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 04 Oct 2011 20:29:21 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[In our last post we talked about the basic material used to start the PCB manufacturing process. If we were doing a double sided board it would actually be going into drill at this part of the process. We will get to that eventually. What we are going to do is walk through the multilayer [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Manufacturing of Double-Sided and Multi-Layer Printed Circuit Boards</title>
		<link>http://bayareacircuits.com/manufacturing-of-double-sided-and-multi-layer-printed-circuit-boards/</link>
		<comments>http://bayareacircuits.com/manufacturing-of-double-sided-and-multi-layer-printed-circuit-boards/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 31 Jul 2011 22:44:31 +0000</pubDate>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://bayareacircuits.com/?p=496</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[This is the first in a series of articles that will explain what is involved in the Printed Circuit Board (PCB) manufacturing process. Most of what we will cover will be very high-level to provide someone who is not familiar with the manufacturing process the basics of how a PCB is actually made. Those who [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Most Common Problems with Gerber Files and How to Avoid Them</title>
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		<comments>http://bayareacircuits.com/most-common-problems-with-gerber-files-and-how-to-avoid-them/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 27 Jun 2011 14:09:43 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Common Problems with Gerber Files and How to Avoid Them! The reasons we want to address these common problems is to help reduce the number of errors, mistakes and time delays when manufacturing your PCB. All of these reflect in higher costs in the long run which no one needs! Obsolete File Format: There are [...]]]></description>
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		<title>RS274D vs RS274X Gerber file format&#8230;what&#8217;s the big deal anyway?</title>
		<link>http://bayareacircuits.com/rs274d-vs-rd274x-gerber-file-format%e2%80%a6what%e2%80%99s-the-big-deal-anyway/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 17 Jun 2011 15:33:32 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[For those that are not familiar with the designation of 274d and 274x we put together some basic information to help you understand the difference and why it is important in the PCB ordering and manufacturing process. How can just a letter make such a big difference? At first glance the &#8220;d&#8221; would seem like [...]]]></description>
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