Board Parts/Components
This key piece of information is how you identify a particular component in a schematic/layout/physical board.
What is a Reference Designator?
This basic physics/engineering unit that refers to the potential energy in a system. A battery is measured in this unit.
What is Voltage?
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What is BitBucket?
This 3 or 4 letter acronym describes software that is used to edit engineering drawings/files.
What is CAD/ECAD?
This part of a PCB is visible as large irregularly shaped copper areas on the top or bottom side of a PCB.
What is a Copper Pour?
It’s like a wire, but lies flat on a PCB
What is a Trace?
This file/output describes how all components and signals are connected in a circuit board design.
What is a Netlist?
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What is GitHub?
This manufacturing file defines how a CM produces a PCB. Also a popular brand of baby food.
What is a Gerber File?
A set of design guidelines that attempt to ensure manufacturability
What is DFM (Design for Manufacturability)?
A small copper circle connected to a trace for external signal probing. The physical version of a debugger address.
What is a Test Point?
This phase of PCBA design describes laying out the traces and connecting signals
What is Routing?
You can use AllSpice Actions to create this document which is used to implement and track changes in products.
What is an ECO (Engineering Change Order)?
This colloquialism describes the act of redesigning a PCBA to fix the problems on a current production run
What is Re-Spinning?
This term refers to putting multiple instances of a PCBA design on a larger standard sized PCB blank.
What is Panelization?
This component-footprint is a small copper circle that helps automatic vision systems determines board position and rotation for adding components to the PCB.
What is a Fiducial?
This feature/relationship allows for modular reuse of schematics/pcbs, allowing for nested design-reuse.
What is Hierarchy?
Our API returns schematic and PCBs in this file format
What is JSON?
This file format is similar to Gerbers, and defines the entire manufacturing file package.
What is ODB++?
A layer of the PCB that denotes what top/bottom side areas are covered in a non-conductive film. Prevents oxidation and solder bridges
What is Solder Mask?
These PCB holes are copper coated, as opposed to holes without copper
What is a Plated Through Hole?
This describes unwanted communication between traces that are physically disconnected
What is Crosstalk?
This system/software is what runs a CI/CD Action
What is a Runner?
These items are designed to verify/validate the “device under test” (DUT) product PCBAs.
What are Text Fixtures / ITP Fixtures?
This metal sheet is used to apply the metal-glue to the PCB before components are added via pick-and-place
What is a Stencil?