Electronic Design

Removable Shielding Technologies for PCBs

You must be very creative today to effectively match the shielding solution to the size of the components and circuits on the PCB. Today's RF engineers are faced with new challenges when designing ...
EDN

Shields are your friend, except when… (Part 3)

In the past two columns we have looked at the possible side effects of adding a shield to our PCBs. First we showed how to calculate the lowest frequency resonance, backed up with actual data that ...
New Electronics

PCB shield connections

Phoenix Contact is extending its portfolio of PCB connection technology for data transmission with the new solderable SH-PCB 6 shield clamp. The clamp has been designed to provide reliable grounding ...
Electronic Design

Adding A GPS Chipset To Your Next Design Is Easy

Fig 1. A typical GPS receiver includes several key components, including the RF input, the LNA, a SAW filter, a TCXO, and the GPS RF chip. Fig 2. The key components of the GPS receiver should go under ...
EDN

Shields are your friend, except when… (Part 2)

Last month in Part 1 we looked at one issue of using conductive shields in our high-frequency circuits. We showed that they can and do resonate at frequencies and we can easily calculate the lowest ...