DFM stands for Design For Manufacturing. This is key: DESIGN. FOR. The phrase refers to the actual decision-making process of laying down geometry to ensure manufacturing yields. Strictly speaking, DFM does not mean checking a finished design for manufacturing rules compliance, it's much more than t...

There's a global trend emerging, even before the previous trend had reached completion. After nearly a century of standardization on incandescent bulbs, LED lighting for bulb-type applications are coming on even before Compact Fluorescent (CFL) bulbs could achieve a majority foothold in the global m...

<r>PCB007, the online magazine covering the PCB industry, just released their list of the Top 10 most-read articles for 2010. We made the list at #8! <URL url="http://www.pcbdesign007.com/pages/zone.cgi?artcatid=a=73464artid=73464pg=1"><LINK_TEXT text="http://www.pcbdesign007.com/pages/zone. ... =73...

<t>There's a LOT of talk about the new PCB123 parts library. 500,000 parts - especicially when you can click straight through to datasheets and product information pages from INSIDE the CAD tool -- invites a lot of exploration. Of course, while half-a-million parts will satisfy a lot of parts needs,...

<t> Arthur Andy: Thanks for the feedback. I can tell you that we've heard similar feedback on the phone the users who've called in to talk with us. We've just reached the one-year mark for this library. With 500,000 parts, it takes a bit of time to have the usage settle down into a regular usage mod...

<t>Duane Benson over at Screaming Circuits has a great blog post from Nov 14, 2011, on creating stencil opening for QFN parts. Here's the link to the actual post. Duane's post talks about EAGLE specifically, but the general idea can be used for other CAD tools as well. Nevertheless, it's worth quoti...

<t>Great News! PCB123 has just released 25,000 connector parts into the PCB123 parts library. These new connectors include parts from Samtec, Glenair, CW Industries, HiRose and JST. To access the new parts, just download the latest version of PCB123, available now on the PCB123 downloads page. The n...

Mark Thompson, at Prototron Circuits, wrote a terrific article about strategies to improve your success when working with a quick turn prototype shop. Much of what Mark has to say makes sense here at Sunstone Circuits as well. PCB Design 007 Article . Another source for "best practices" when working...

The support team certainly understands your position on this behavior. As the Marketing Manager for PCB123, we're working on the issues you've described in the Forum thread titled Please Fix Bugs With Symbol Editing . f I can encourage you and other readers to continue this discussion in the other p...

<r> Sunstone Circuits is now a registered ITAR supplier. Sunstone can accept, quote and build any ITAR related PCB work, in compliance with ITAR requirements. Customers in the government, RD, military and defense segments who require ITAR-compliant products will experience the best and most efficien...