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Circuit Board Theme + Free Digital Timer Screensaver
Downloads Enjoy the Circuit Board theme plus Free Flash Lite Digital Timer Screen Saver included. Bring more diversification on your Smartphone screen.Screen saver feature is available in S60 OS 9.2 Feature Pack 1/ 2 phones: Nokia 5320, Nokia 5700, Nokia...
[March 27, 2009, 7:00]
Printable semiconductors move a step closer
Talkback What will this mean to the circuit board industry. Will all circuit board assemblies be flat/flexible like paper or built into objects and virtually invisible? Dinesh Sharma's article about Printable Semiconductors really caught my attention.
[April 20, 2004, 21:16]
Xbox mod chip delivers 'homebrew software'
News The Xtender, a "mod chip" intended to be added to the main circuit board of the Xbox, went on sale last weekend through retailers such as Hong Kong-based Lik Sang. For starters, using the mod chips requires disassembling the Xbox case and affixing...
[May 29, 2002, 14:34]
Sendo lawsuit targets Orange SPV smartphone
News The handset maker said that the lawsuit against Orange centres on a patent relating to miniaturisation in the SPV's circuit-board design. Sendo sued Orange rather than HTC because its circuit-board patent only covers the UK, but the company has...
[June 5, 2003, 15:14]
Chips to talk without wires
News Rather than have the chips soldered onto a printed circuit board, the printed circuit board is taken out of the system. It will take a lot of work, but Sun Microsystems says it is making headway on a technology that will allow chips to communicate...
[August 3, 2004, 8:50]
Sendo withdraws Orange lawsuit
News The handset maker said that the lawsuit against Orange centres on a patent relating to miniaturisation in the SPV's circuit-board design. Sendo sued Orange rather than HTC because its circuit-board patent only covers the UK, but the company has...
[July 22, 2003, 10:38]
Tiny plastic tube helps computer communication
News Fibre ribbons -- which have tens of channels in a row -- have already been shown to enable communications between the different chips on a computers circuit board, but with the increasing transmission loads required to ferry information, the two...
[January 6, 2004, 11:15]
Rambus speeds up chip connections
News In turn, the need for synchronisation has forced circuit board designers to ensure that the traces -- the wires connecting different chips -- are precisely equal. The pins -- the metallic fingers that transmit and receive signals -- on one chip are...
[February 17, 2003, 7:53]
Netgear WPN824 RangeMax review
Reviews Although you can't see it, the RangeMax router's most interesting feature is the MIMO technology on the unit's circuit board. Airgo's solution requires three external antennas, while the Video54 solution built into the Netgear unit includes seven...
[April 20, 2005, 9:35]
Plastic transistors get rubber stamp
News I wouldn't necessarily see us replacing the circuit board, but in finding ways to create the board cheaper. The technique uses a rubber stamp made of silicone gel to essentially "print" the circuit pattern on whatever kind of surface being used as...
[March 25, 1999, 5:59]
From the vaults: cracking open the original HP LaserJet review
Reviews A traditional ribbon cable connected the IIP's basic monochrome LCD display to the unit's circuit board. The IIP's video controller assembly circuit board. The DC controller assembly PCB sits beneath the video controller board (now removed in this...
[May 2, 2007, 14:31]
Recycle your old PCs
News Basically, anything with a circuit board. There's a lot of stuff in a circuit board that you really don't want to ingest. Computer-related waste remains a local and global problem, despite the progress made over the last few years.
[April 24, 2006, 12:05]
How to make your PCs quieter
News The leads are usually soldered to the supply's printed circuit board. Clip the leads with a wire cutter, leaving plenty of length from the circuit board. Noisy PCs can create an uncomfortable work environment for users.
[July 23, 2002, 13:05]
Welcome to the ink-jet age
News Printed circuit board By using an insulating ink in another print head it is possible for the printer to quickly and accurately lay out a printed circuit board with conductors just a few micrometers wide.
[January 6, 2006, 17:15]
3GHz Pentium 4 may mean pricier PCs
News On top of that, to make room for more components, board makers will have to rearrange the boards' circuit layouts. This will mean changing a power-control circuit called a pulse width modulation controller, according to the report.
[August 22, 2002, 11:32]
Printed Straight F Antennas for WLAN and Bluetooth
White Papers Miniaturized printed-circuit-board antennas are proposed in PCMCIA cards for WALN and Bluetooth applications. The proposed antenna is a straight F in shape printed on a FR4 substrate together with the rest of the circuit components, providing a low...
[August 11, 2005, 6:00]
One flight later...
Blog Comment Taking the lid off a competitor's box and looking inside is one thing -- X-raying the circuit board and making an identical copy of the hardware and then selling it as your own is something else entirely.
[November 22, 2007, 9:59]
Miniaturized Printed Wire Antenna for Wireless Communications
White Papers In this paper miniaturized printed-circuit-board wire antennas are investigated for wireless local access network (WLAN) and Bluetooth applications. The proposed wire antenna in F-shape could have a much smaller area than an inverted F antenna with...
[November 18, 2005, 0:00]
NOD32, Crossing the Globe With Data Protection
White Papers Eastek International is an international ISO 9001 certified contract manufacturing facility offering complete solutions for printed circuit board assembly, using the latest technology in manufacture and testing.
[June 16, 2007, 1:00]
Chip bugs hobble Toshiba laptops
News In the last two weeks, Toshiba and Intel engineers narrowed the problem down to a circuit board, known as Mobile Module One, on which the CPUs were affixed, according to Intel spokesman Manny Vara in Santa Clara, California Intel has several types...
[March 20, 2000, 9:30]
