There are certain design guidelines for PCBs that don’t make a lot of sense, and practices that seem excessive and unnecessary. Often these are motivated by the black magic that is RF transmission.

[Hans Rosenberg] knows a thing or two about RF PCB design and has provided a three-part four-part video demonstration of some solid rules of thumb. We will cover the first part here and leave the ...

The days when RF and microwave design were stand-alone matters are over. Modern RF designs have multiple RF modules combined with high- speed digital and analogue technology sharing the same board ...

Using low-cost PCBs (printed-circuitboards), you can easily designa board in a few hours with nearlyany CAD package, even the free ones.You can have your prototype board onyour desk in just two days.

A couple years ago my pal Bob Thomas over at Apple told me how Istvan Novak over at Sun Microsystems figured out a clever way to keep RF from radiating out the edge of the board. For years, engineers ...