Semiconductors are the building blocks of modern electronics, powering everything from smartphones to satellites. This in-depth guide provides a comprehensive understanding of semiconductors' engineering principles and applications, delving into their fundamental concepts, materials, devices, manufacturing processes, and their impact on today's technology landscape.
This article explores the basics of SR Latch, covering its fundamental principles and implementation using NOR and NAND gates, metastability and race conditions, illustration of gated variants and real world applications such as switch debouncing and integrated latch ICs.
Protect sensitive electronics by understanding the current limiting resistor, learning how to calculate appropriate values, and applying them in LEDs, transistors, microcontroller inputs and other circuits.
This guide explains how potentiometer pins interact with mechanical rotation, resistive tracks, and load conditions across various circuit configurations. It provides clarity for both low-power electronic designs and high-precision embedded systems.
This technical article explains the theory behind potentiometer schematics. It shows how to implement mechanical and digital potentiometers in practical circuits, tailored for engineers, and students.
Source transformation is the method of converting a voltage source with series resistance into an equivalent current source with parallel resistance (and vice versa). This guide explains the theory, math, circuit examples, and practical applications for modern digital and hardware engineers.
Resistors are the quiet regulators of electronic circuits. They shape current, set voltages, bias transistors, protect components, and stabilize signals. This article breaks down the physics of resistance, explores modern resistor technologies, and offers practical guidance.
Many beginners may be confused about the Solder Mask Layer and Paste Mask Layer because they share some similarities. In this article, we will introduce the differences between solder masks and paste masks, enabling beginners to gain a better understanding.
Ground is the reference point that makes voltage meaningful and the return path that allows current to flow. This article explains what is ground in a circuit, discusses different types of grounds, and shows how to implement effective grounding strategies
Rapid PCBA prototyping using electronics cloud manufacturing offers many advantages including problem identification, reduced error rate, lower costs, and shortened manufacturing timelines.
A team of researchers in Korea has been working on functional acoustic energy transmission (AET) systems, and their latest paper details a major breakthrough: Prototypes capable of powering LEDs, sensors, and Bluetooth transmitters at range and through materials include metal, tissue, and water.
Cellular IoT in both its LTE-M and NB-IoT flavors took longer than competing proprietary Local Wide Area (LWA) network technologies to come to market. As a direct result of this, they lost a lot of early market share.
In this tutorial series it is all about the procedure of creating realistic renders from 3D models of PCBs in Blender.
In the third (and last) part of this tutorial series, we will take a look at different steps that will lead to a better render result.
As an electronics engineer, you need to ensure PCBA documentation is clean, complete, and up to date. Here are MacroFab's tips to help you overcome common documentation challenges that can keep your designs from reaching their maximum production potential
Relying on single-sourced components is a risky move that constricts your supply chain options and pins your product's future to one option.
What happens if that option disappears? We have tips that can protect you from single-sourcing uncertainty.
In this tutorial series it is all about the procedure of creating realistic renders from 3D models of PCBs in Blender. The first part covers the preparation of the 3D objects, the required textures and UV unwrapping.
Electronic product development is a highly iterative process that involves going back and forth between the design and manufacturing stages. Cloud Manufacturing Services make it possible for engineers to focus on innovation.
PCBA prototyping establishes design feasibility and future manufacturability. Here are tried and true strategies to lower costs and effort to save time on your next PCBA prototype.