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Selecting larger inductors than necessary for cost optimization

I'm designing a board that I want to initially manufacture using JLCPCB for both the board fabrication and assembly. The pricing approach at JLCPCB separates available components into commonly used &...
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Cost effect of different component packages during PCB assembly

We are looking at starting PCB design in house, up until now we have outsource design and manufacture. This means that we have yet to see the real cost of the PCB, components and assembly as discrete ...
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Estimating Assembly costs II

This is a continuation of Estimating Assembly Cost which has addressed some approximations in estimating between North American and Asian assembly houses as price per pin. The question does not ...
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What's the cheapest type of package to assemble?

Say you have a microcontroller that you want to use on a production board. Most microcontrollers come in several different packages. Assuming all the packages cost the same, what typically would be ...
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PCB assembly cost per-board

I know this question might get closed because of being opinion depended but I couldn't find any answer from google or any other search, so I decided to ask it here. For clarity of question I want to ...
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Single- vs double-sided PCB assembly costs

I'm working on a new design (still laying out the components) and I have a chance here to reduce the size of the PCB by roughly 40%-50% if I use the other side for a QFP-100 IC (so it's heavy and will ...
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