When considering how best to lay out a switching-regulator board, it's good to recall its purpose, which is to supply a steady voltage of a specific magnitude. Experienced layout designers achieve ...

One problem with writing an Application Note on PCB layout is that the people who read it are usually not the ones who are going to use it. Even if the designer has struggled through electromagnetic ...

Optimal Layout is a new window manager for OS X. It’s fully Lion compatible and available now on the Mac App Store. We’ve seen a lot of apps like this in the last year or so, addressing a problem many ...

Switching regulators are relatively easy to understand from a circuit standpoint; the challenge is in laying them out so that they work in the actual product they are powering. Here are some tips for ...

Colemak puts the 'F' just above your left middle finger. That's in the 'E' spot for all your QWERTY people. So next time you find yourself overly frustrated with Dvorak's F, just think, hey, I could ...