This article outlines power, ground, PCB, and system layout hints and kinks. It includes an overview of using power, ground star points, and multifrequency power decoupling. It also shows how to ...

MacFixIt reader Nick Collingridge has identified Entourage as the culprit behind an issue where default keyboard layouts in Mac OS X sporadically switch. Nick writes: "I have been suffering from a ...

As Twitter starts to slowly collapse I'm realizing I have a lot of projects I've documented there, and well, nowhere else. That seems dumb. This is a project from 2021, my friend Kyle helped me figure ...

This article addresses some of the fundamentals of laying out a switching-regulator board. Although it focuses on a step-up switching-regulator, the concepts it covers are also useful when working ...

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 ...