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To their dismay, one of our customers found a small but critical error. The ground plane that should have served as a return path for signals was missing between plated through holes in a section of their circuit board. Thousands of boards were in the assembly pipeline and thousands in the field. Fortunately, after testing a number of different rework options, the customer was able to correct the fault using a short jumper wire. However upon viewing the rework with a wire, the end customer would not accept it. Was there a way to rework these board without the obvious surface wires...
Feature Story
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I have a circuit board with a burned chip. Can this type of repair be done reliably? Where can I send this board to and have it done professionally? The panel of experts offer up some ...
Ask the Experts
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Paper discusses practices observed at various CMs that can lead to inconsistency in rework and techniques that will reduce or eliminate the inconsistency ...
Technical Library
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Some time ago we had the good fortune to obtain a Dage X-Ray machine. For years we had been using an older machine that had been an absolutely reliable workhorse. Since we loved our old machine, we didn't immediately recognize what the Dage machine could do for us, but when we saw how it performed, well, all we can say is, "What an eye opener!" The Dage x-ray systems are ...
Feature Story
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A concept study by NASA has made the case that taking a ride in a driverless vertical-takeoff-and-landing (VTOL) air taxi could become as cheap as taking a ride in an Uber car, and take less than one-third of the time. A at NASA's Langley Research Center focused on the area from Oakland to ...
Technology Briefing
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"Why are we buying faster computers? Our people already make mistakes fast enough!"
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Trivia
What science fiction writer played a part in the development of radar?
See the answer below.
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Quote of the Week
"UNIVAC: a device, which contained 20,000 vacuum tubes, occupied 1,500 square feet and weighed 40 tons; there was also a laptop version weighing 27 tons."
Dave Barry
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