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Small Drilled Pad-Per Hole PCB's

COPPER ONE SIDE, PAD PER HOLE PCB's

SOLDER-ABLE PERF BOARD
Copper clad mounting holes with 0.1?br> matrix. Fits most standard components.
Mating project enclosures available.

Small Plastic Boxes With Metal Bottom Plate

Easy to drill and work with plastic housing with metal bottom plate
Enclose your projects, prototypes, switches or wire junctions.
PROJECT ENCLOSURES
Heavy duty molded plastic boxes with
aluminum tops. Mating Solder-able perf-boards available.
Measurements in inches. Dimensions are Outer Diameter.

Positive Etch System: Basic-
1. You will need a pre-sensitized PCB, or sensitize a copper clad PCB.
2. An etch resist pen to draw or a layout (Mylar transparency) to go on the PCB.Handle 4 Feet of Supply Hose

Greatly reduce etching time with the etching solution heater!

10 increments of 5?temperature settings
Fits in tank and heats solution up to Used to further reduce etching time. Built-in adjustable thermostat controls temperature continuously

PCB STARTER SYSTEM

Etching System Includes:
1.35 Gallon Etching Tank: Can accommodate up to (2) 8 x 9 inch boards at a time. Non-Evaporative Lid.
Etching Solution Heater: Raises temperature to greatly reduce etching time
Air Pump & Agitator :For faster, even etching of your board
Perfect starter kit! Embedded Logic Solutions to exhibit PCB prototyping at NMW 2008

PCB prototyping Embedded Logic Solutions will demonstrate fast and professional printed circuit board (PCB) prototyping on Stand 1807 at National Manufacturing Week at the Sydney Convention & Exhibition Centre from May 27 to 30.

The LPKF Laser & Electronics in-house PCB prototyping facility is reported to produce reliable working prototypes within minutes. It also eliminates chemical processes.

In addition, dependence on service suppliers is reduced, lessening production delays. Consequently, on-going costs for prototype fabrication are reduced.

Further, an in-house PCB prototyping facility enhances security of the user’s precious design data.

LPKF provides advanced technology solutions for PCB, through-holes, solder resist, silk screen, multilayer, pick-and-place and reflow operations.

LPKF’s Australian and New Zealand distributor, Embedded Logic Solutions, supplies such diverse sectors as the defence, education and automotive industries as well as other electronics designers and manufacturers.

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Borrowed pcb prototyping system solves major test problems

by Stephan Schmidt, general manager, LPKF Laser & Electronics USA, Wilsonville OR

The problem that test had is that unreliable test fixtures cause downtime and errors. Testing is a vital part of semiconductor development and test fixtures are the proverbial horseshoe nails that can make or break measurement results. Inadequate or unreliable test fixtures had been causing major disruptions to new product introductions at Supertex due to mechanical failures and improper test results.

"We were building typical generic wire-wrap fixtures to adapt our new devices to the dozens of test stations we maintain," Frank Galica, hardware engineer-supervisor, says. "Connectors on the generic fixtures were hard to keep in alignment and always seemed to break down at the worst time, right in the middle of a crunch run."

"As our devices became more sophisticated, other parameters that are difficult to control in a wire-wrap fixture began to affect the measurements themselves," he adds. "Inconsistencies such as improper lead lengths, parasitic inductance and loosening connections forced us to repeat the tests or, at worst, gave us false results that were not caught until much later in the process. Those old fixtures were costing us time and money."

A new semiconductor device is characterized by inserting it into a test fixture that provides support circuitry for power, loads, I/O and other functions and adapts it to instrumentation for measurement of its key parameters. To ensure accurate measurements, the fixture must provide a stable, realistic environment for the device and it needs to withstand repeated insertions and removals without degrading in performance.

"Our fixtures were not keeping up with the demands of the new device technologies," Galica explains, "but we could not let the designs out of our control for pc-board fabrication, since they are proprietary and extremely sensitive."

"Moreover, we do not have the time to wait for an outside vendor to respond. So, we just kept rebuilding and redesigning the fixtures to try to minimize the problems," he adds.

Test fixtures produced on pc-board plotter.

The solution turned out to making custom circuit card fixtures on the spot. Scott Lynch, a Supertex applications engineer showed Galica a prototype circuit board that had just been used to win a design contract. The board had been produced on a newly-installed circuit board plotter and had performed very well in evaluation.

"When I saw the quality of the demo board, I asked Lynch to make us a test fixture board on the same plotter system," Galica says. "The results were excellent: solid performance and mechanical integrity. It was just what we needed, and it only took a couple of hours."

The plotter system downloads files directly from a CAE program and translates them into board layouts. It then automatically produces each board by drilling the through holes and milling the traces from a variety of standard copper-clad FR3, FR4 and G10 laminated materials. Boards are cut to precise sizes and tolerances and most can be produced in a few minutes. TECHNICAL
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Prototype circuit boards are generally assembled by an electronics engineer rather than an assembly line worker or technician. During the design of the circuit, some portions of circuitry may have been tested by "bread-boarding" (making up the circuit in a makeshift form) or simulation (using SPICE, a circuit simulator). During prototyping the remaining areas of circuitry are usually tested in isolation, before debug begins on circuitry as a whole - this is sometimes done by assembling the PCB in stages, or by assembling the PCB with Integrated Circuit (IC) sockets. The testing itself is according to a plan developed for the design - the debug test procedure.

At AirBorn Electronics we build up in stages because There's no debugging harder than fixing a symptom that has more than one cause, - it's a lot easier to find faults one at a time.

What... don't these things work first time? Usually they do... by the time the customer sees them. And many of our debugging tests are passed first time. But there's a law out there that says If you don't test something thoroughly, it'll probably fail later.

At AirBorn Electronics we have a good stock of electronics parts and materials available. As the prototyping proceeds, areas of the circuitry will be tested and this often involves building up small test jigs, for instance to mock-up an input device. As and when problems are found, the solutions are often tried on the prototype circuitry directly, by adding components or rewiring.

Prototype testing usually involves some verification of design parameters such as timing, temperature susceptibility and supply voltage variation.

We debug microprocessor circuitry on the target, in the operating environment, using specifically written Diagnostic Programs. Most other designers debug microprocessor circuitry using emulators, - you have to be quite sure of your code to go straight to the target. The advantage of Debugging on the target is that we debug using the real units operating characteristics early in the prototyping, and then when we have properly debugged the hardware we change to emulator or romemulator for software development. Again, it is about being thorough in our work.

As we mentioned previously, we always produce atleast two identical prototypes when testing a design. We can

So send your enquiries and questions, we are delighted to help you and serve you to the best of our ability.

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LPKF's ProtoMat family of systems provides an ideal PCB prototyping machine for virtually any engineering environment. Every LPKF ProtoMat? PCB prototyping machine is built to be the best of its class, with thousands of installed quickturn systems to prove it. Each PCB milling machine system has its own special system features. Some prototype milling machines feature milling, drilling, routing and depanelization; some feature a new generation of advanced boards and circuit board plotters. Other prototype milling machines have automatic tool change and are ideal for exotic substrates and flex. The LPKF Laser & Electronics AG is developing quickturn systems and process solutions for demanding tasks in printed circuit board technology and microelectronics. Contact us today for more information regarding our PCB quickturn machine equipment systems. Engineers around the world are looking to maximize their time and designs in order to meet the growing demands of today's marketplace. Tight budgets and even tighter deadlines allow little room for error when developing circuit board prototypes, making T-Tech's Quick Circuit System the logical solution to these growing demands.

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