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Article: Fine Lines in High Yield (Part LXXII) Embedded Passive Components.(Brief Article)
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- CircuiTree
- Article date:
- September 1, 2001
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An Introductory Survival Kit for Innocent Bystanders and the Uninitiated
The world of active and passive components, and assembly in general, has been alien to most of us who are involved in the fabrication of printed wiring boards. We are now witnessing the intrusion of embedded passive components into PWB fabrication and, although many good articles have been written on the subject (Ref. 1-4, for example), I felt a need to sort out some of the basics:
* What are resistors and capacitors?
* How are resistivity and capacitance defined? Which dimensional parameters and other characteristics determine their value?
* What are designers' ...