Best Practices for Ensuring a Smooth,Successful Manufacturing Process Tight production deadlines often present a seemingly compelling reason to head straight for full production. Don’t be fooled. Designing your PCB is just step one for ensuring manufacturability. Prototyping is the critical next st...

Four Strategies for Becoming Your Own,Best PCB Designer Printed Circuit Boards (PCBs) support the functionality of just about every working electronic device in use today. They are integral to every professional discipline from mechatronics to robotics and process automation. If you want to make so...

What's a Gerber file? by Matt Stevenson, Sunstone Engineer I am sure that everyone involved in PCB designing, manufacturing and procurement has heard the term Gerber Files at least 100 times. What is a Gerber file and where did it come from? The origin of the Gerber file can be traced to Gerber Syst...

Heat Sink - o - de Mayo by Matt Stevenson, Sunstone Engineer As electronics get smaller, faster and more powerful the heat generation of these components grow in a variety of ways. In terms of a PCB, heat can be generated, reflected or increased from several different factors. Some of the more commo...

Copper - not just good for pennies Copper is a versatile metal that works very well for the conduction of electrical current. In fact, it has the highest electrical conductivity rating of all non-precious metals, making it highly effective for performance and cost. For a vast majority of PCB designs...

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One of the most fascinating and critical steps in the manufacturing process is the imaging step. This is the step where the digital representation of the PCB is transferred to a physical manufacturing panel and where the PCB begins to take on its designed form. Manufacturing panels (either internal ...

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Connect the Dots: Preparing for Tomorrow’s Technology Today by Bob Tise At a recent Sunstone Circuits planning summit, Matt Stevenson, VP of sales and marketing, and I led a wide-ranging discussion about emerging technologies and how they will impact PCB manufacturing. The following is an abridged ...

Accurate Gerber files are mission critical for smooth PCB manufacturing. Gerber files can reveal design issues ahead of the quote process and ensure your manufacturer has everything needed to produce your boards correctly. In a recent conversation with our Engineering Support Specialist, Eric Hauge...