How to Identify Electronic Components
Whenever you start looking at an unfamiliar design or you need to reverse engineer an old layout, how can you identify the existing components? Here are some strategies you can use to identify electronic components.
Streamline Your Design Process with myLists from Digi-Key
Digi-Key has recently released myLists, a tool that has incorporated all the features and capabilities from their previous list management tools including BOM Manager, Price and Availability, and Favorites into a single solution. myLists also includes some new list features and added product information that hasn’t previously been available in a Digi-Key list tool. […]
Register With Digi-Key for Exclusive Tools and Features
We partner with companies like Digi-Key, who provide customers with access to thousands of components from top manufacturers including Vishay, Texas Instruments, and Toshiba. Digi-Key has so much to offer, so make sure to visit their website to see all their resources and register for a free account to utilize all the tools you […]
PCB Debugging with InspectAR
While augmented reality seems to have become another tech buzzword, it is making its way out of the lab and into practical applications and products.
The NTC0805J10K: A Negative Temperature Coefficient Chip Thermistor
An NTC thermistor is one example of an on-board sensor that doesn’t require complex supporting circuitry for precise measurements. One popular thermistor is the NTC0805J10K, a surface-mount chip component in 0805 packaging that can be reliably used from below-freezing to above-boiling temperatures.
Finding Reliable PCB Distributors for Your Electronic Hardware Design
Reliable distributors are vital to the success of any PCB project. Without reliable PCB distributors, designers couldn’t create new prototypes, be made aware of changes in the supply chain, or predict what the PCB markets might do next. A project’s choice of distributor can determine whether that project succeeds or fails, and it is not […]
Component Suppliers for Your Electronic Design Needs
The COVID-19 pandemic has impacted the electronics industry in unprecedented ways, causing supply problems, manufacturing delays, and major business losses across the world. Every manufacturing company has had to re-evaluate its supply chain and business model to stay afloat. Given these challenges, it is easy to think component suppliers might be unreliable during the pandemic. […]
How to Create a Bill of Materials
Organizing an electronics project can be a daunting task. Collaborating between design and engineering teams—while making sure a project uses the best parts for the job—can get complicated quickly.
Component Supply Chain Management Tips for Electronics Engineers
We all love that feeling when a great new design is being finalized. You’re probably busy making last minute adjustments to your routing and compiling deliverables for your manufacturer. Once you send your design off to your board house, you get that dreaded call, where an engineer tells you a critical component has gone obsolete, […]
Component Library Management: Taking the Hassle Out of Ease of Access
In the early days of PCB design (before PCs and CAD software) designers working on new boards had to do everything by hand. Imagine trying to place millions of transistors like that! Now that CAD applications have become the industry standard for mechanical and electronics design, product design teams need to keep an organized library […]