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Making Printed Circuit Boards
A collection of files and links to material about making PC boards.
Books
Making
Printed Circuit Boards. This is my book about designing
and making printed-circuit boards. It's a little dated in parts, but
still contains many useful tips. - Build Your Own Printed Circuit Board is a new title by veteran author Al Williams.
- Fabricating
Printed Circuit Boards by Jon Varteresian is another new one.
Links
- PCB Design. A guide to board design.
- PCB007 online magazine for the printed circuit board, electronics manufacturing services and PCB design industries.
- Links to a variety of Electronic Design Software, including freeware versions of PADS Logic and PADS PCb, from the University of Nebraska-Lincoln's Electronics Shop.
- The Institute for Interconnecting and Packaging Electronic Circuits (IPC) is a trade association of companies involved in PC-board design and fabrication. They publish a large collection of books and instructional videos, and sponser several email lists.
- Sources for information on PC boards, soldering, and other assembly and packaging topics, from Alex X's Electronic Resource Library.
- Links for circuit board design and making. From ePanorama.net.
- Everything PCB has a great set of links.
- Clarydon Electronic Services has a page of PCB Related Links.
Construction Tips
- Construction tips and some links to manufacturers, from Al Williams.
- How to make really really good homemade PCBs. From Mike's Electric Stuff.
- Making your own prototype PCBs describes how to make PC boards using Press-n-Peel sheets. From S. Pdmtr.
Manufacturers
- ExpressPCB has software and manufacturing services for PC boards.
- Links to many manufacturers of PC boards. From Bruce Carter.
- Board manufacturing and on-line quotes from ECD, Inc.
- Erlich Industrial Corp. manufacturs boards and also sells FR4 material and Press-n-Peel film.
Articles
- Printed Circuit Design and Manufacture magazine. Many articles.