There’s a satisfaction in watching someone else at work, particularly when they are demonstrating a solution to a soldering problem you have encountered in the past. SMA panel sockets have a ...

In my previous post, Solder-wick trick characterizes bypass caps, you saw a very simple home-made fixture [1]. It takes only two coaxial cables and some solder wick ...

When you first start out in the PCB layout game and know just enough to be dangerous, you simply plop down a connector, run a trace or two, and call it a hack. As you learn more about the finer points ...

Another cool presentation I saw at DesignCon last month was about the proper way to lay out a circuit board for edge-launch SMA connectors (32 meg pdf). The presentation has another neat section that ...