What is a Test Coupon? A test coupon is the portion of a printed board or of a panel containing printed coupons used to determine the acceptability of such a board. Read More
What is Tab Routing with Perforation Holes? Tab routing with perforation holes is the same as tab routing above with the exception that we add perforation holes along the tabs to make it easier to break apart your boards at a later date. We Read More
What is Tab Routing (with and without perforation holes)? Rather that completing the route path around the board edge, “Tabs” are left so as to leave boards attached in pallets for ease in assembly. Read More
What is Surface Mount Technology (SMT)? SMT defines the entire body of processes and components that create printed circuit board assemblies with leadless components. Read More
What is the Surface Mount Surface mount is the pitch of the surface mount is defined as the dimension in inches from center to center of surface mount pads. Standard pitch is >0.025″, fine pitch is 0.011″-0.025″, a Read More
What is Subtractive Processing? Subtractive processing is the method of selectively removing copper from a board to form a circuit. In this case, “subtractive” refers to the method of image transfer from a phototool or image Read More
What is a Substrate A material on whose surface adhesive substance is spread for bonding or coating. Also, any material that provides a supporting surface for other materials used to support printed circuit patterns.< Read More
What is Stripping Stripping is the process by which imaging material (resist) is chemically removed from a panel during fabrication. Read More
What is Step-and-Repeat? Step-and-repeat is a method by which successive exposures to a single image are made to produce a multiple image production master. Read More
