You’ve finally decided to take the plunge and build a board with surface-mount parts. After carefully dispensing the solder paste with a syringe, it’s time to place the parts. You take up your trusty ...

San Jose—Test tool and system vendor National Instruments (Austin, Texas) wants to break down the wall between printed-circuit-board design and test, as the company announced today that it has ...

Setting up an electronics work area is a highly personal and situational affair, with many interesting problems to be solved, and for many of us, significant budget constraints. The requirements for ...