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Populating MOLEX receptacles at industrial scale

I am a manufacturing engineer charged with implementing process improvements that reduce the total time to build an article. Our volume is such that a one minute reduction in labour results in £1K-£2K ...
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Why does Backside Power Distribution work for high speed CPUs?

Several upcoming or future CMOS process nodes are said to offer some kind of backside power delivery for Silicon CMOS transistors, so the precious area in the lower metal layers is freed up for signal ...
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Is a cylindrical GAAfet fabricated with lithography and etching?

The GAAfet, aka the surrounding gate transistor (SGT), is basically a FinFET that surrounds the channel on all 4 sides instead of 3. However, a lot of examples show a cylinder instead of a rectangle. ...
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How to Design method to Program & Calibrate a Panel of PCBs

I'm designing a sensor-package PCB which needs to be programmed and calibrated while still in a panel of 10. I'd like to avoid a large bed-of-nails type setup for this step so that the panel can ...
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Custom fiber optic cable simulation

I am looking to create a custom & precise static optical distribution along the length of a fiber optic cable. The idea involves manipulating an optical fiber during manufacturing to produce the ...
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How can a designer be sure to authorize only legit ICs? How is performed? How are cloned ICs prevented to be activated?

The above diagram is from the IC Activation (locking/unlocking) slide of Fighting against theft, cloning and counterfeiting of integrated circuits by Lilian Bossuet Associate Professor, CNRS Chaire of ...
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How to prevent solder getting into through hole during HASL process?

I think this is an easy enough question - I just don't know how to effectively search for the answer. I have a PCB that came back and the programming header is plugged with solder. This most likely ...
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Circuits that take advantage of tolerances in components

Bit of a wordy question title... I was trying to simulate an astable multivibrator the other night and the simulation refused to run. I eventually realised that because the simulation assumes perfect ...
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How long can the leads protrude for a typical selective solder machine?

I have an LCD who's leads extend about 10mm past the board surface. Can a typical selective solder machine fountain reach this high? If not, any suggestions on the best way to handle long ...
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