Abstract:
A low inductance power connector for reducing inductance in an electrical conductor is provided. An interface connector connects circuit boards together while reducing inductance and increasing current carrying capacitance. The connector for connecting circuit boards comprises a first contact having a first mating portion and a second mating portion, and a second contact having a first mating portion and a second mating portion, wherein the first and second contacts are interleaved.
Abstract:
A low inductance power connector for reducing inductance in an electrical conductor is provided. An interface connector connects circuit boards together while reducing inductance and increasing current carrying capacitance. The connector for connecting circuit boards comprises a first contact having a first mating portion and a second mating portion, and a second contact having a first mating portion and a second mating portion, wherein the first and second contacts are interleaved.
Abstract:
A switching module includes a first printed circuit board for mounting a switching element. To reduce inductance, the switching module includes a distributed bus. By electrically connecting a power bus disposed on the printed circuit board with a conducting sheet, the switching module provides a distributed bus having an inductance that is smaller than the inductance of the power bus. When the first conducting sheet is on a second printed circuit board, a plurality of conducting posts extends from the first printed circuit board to support the second printed circuit board. Alternatively, the conducting sheet and the power bus can be on the same printed circuit board, in which case a via in contact with the power bus and the conducting sheet provides electrical communication to create a distributed bus.
Abstract:
A voltage-controlled oscillator (VCO) mounted on a laminated printed circuit board which has a surface layer, a plurality of intermediate layers, and a back layer. Various component parts of the VCO are arranged on the surface layer. One of the intermediate layers which underlies the surface layer constitutes a ground potential layer and is removed at locations thereof corresponding to the area where the parts of the VCO are positioned.
Abstract:
A surface mountable microwave IC package uses printed transmission lines on a printed circuit board in lieu of plumbing between milled packages. A backside co-planar waveguide is connected to a topside microstrip line by a through-hole in a carrier substrate. To compensate for inductance added by the hole and transmission line ends, a gap is adjusted to provide compensation capacitance. Hermetic sealing of the package is assured by brazing a lead frame over the through-hole and using a solder sealed lid. The lid provides both a hermetic seal and shielding.
Abstract:
A HIGH FREQUENCY TRANSISTOR IS DESCRIBED HAVING INPUT, OUTPUT AND COMMON LEADS. IN ORDER TO REDUCE THE UNDESIRED FEEDBACK EFFECT OF A STRAY SERIES INDUCTANCE IN THE COMMON LEAD, THE OUTPUT LEADS ARE ARRANGED SO AS TO CROSS ONE ANOTHER IN SUCH CLOSE PROXIMITY AS TO INDUCTIVE-
LY COUPLE THEM TOGETHER PROVIDING A FEEDBACK OPPOSITE TO THAT OF THE STRAY INDUCTANCE IN ORDER TO COMPENSATE THE LATTER.
Abstract:
An example sensor interposer employing castellated through-vias formed in a PCB includes a planar substrate defining a plurality of castellated through-vias; a first electrical contact formed on the planar substrate and electrically coupled to a first castellated through-via; a second electrical contact formed on the planar substrate and electrically coupled to a second castellated through-via, the second castellated through-via electrically isolated from the first castellated through-via; and a guard trace formed on the planar substrate, the guard trace having a first portion formed on a first surface of the planar substrate and electrically coupling a third castellated through-via to a fourth castellated through-via, the guard trace having a second portion formed on a second surface of the planar substrate and electrically coupling the third castellated through-via to the fourth castellated through-via, the guard trace formed between the first and second electrical contacts to provide electrical isolation between the first and second electrical contacts.
Abstract:
A highly efficient, single sided circuit board layout design providing magnetic field self-cancellation and reduced parasitic inductance independent of board thickness. The low profile power loop extends through active and passive devices on the top layer of the circuit board, with vias connecting the power loop to a return path in an inner layer of the board. The magnetic effect of the portion of the power loop on the top layer is reduced by locating the inner layer return path directly underneath the power loop path on the top layer.
Abstract:
In accordance with an embodiment of the present invention, a semiconductor module includes a first semiconductor device having a first plurality of leads including a first gate/base lead, a first drain/collector lead, and a first source/emitter lead. The module further includes a second semiconductor device and a circuit board. The second semiconductor device has a second plurality of leads including a second gate/base lead, a second drain/collector lead, and a second source/emitter lead. The circuit board has a plurality of mounting holes, wherein each of the first plurality of leads and the second plurality of leads is mounted into a respective one of the plurality of mounting holes. At the plurality of mounting holes, a first distance from the first gate/base lead to the second gate/base lead is different from a second distance from the first source/emitter lead to the second source/emitter lead.
Abstract:
Visual artifacts in a display are reduced by moving, to the extent possible, display driver components to the display surface itself, thereby shortening conductor distances and reducing the parasitic effects caused by parasitic resistance of the conductors between the display power supply and the display, and between the stabilizing capacitors and the display. To avoid interference with the device housing, low-profile driver components, including either or both of stabilizing capacitors and power supply terminals, can be provided and bonded to the surface of the display side of the outer layer of the display. Alternatively, the stabilizing capacitors can be formed on the display side in the same way that, e.g., in an LCD display, the transparent electrodes for controlling the liquid crystals are formed.