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Printed Circuit Board (PCB)

A PCB is a basic building block of an electronic circuit.
It provides mechanical structure and rigidity to the circuit and it also connects electronic components electrically using electrical traces or paths.
The traces or paths are created by etching the PCB.
A handmade PCB uses ZERO board which has various holes pre drilled.
In single layer PCBs components can be mounted on one side only. In double layer PCBs components can be mounted on both sides.
In multilayer PCBs components are mounted on both sides and has multiple layers on traces and tracks.
Simple and small circuits containing few components can be constructed on Single layer PCBs.
Complex and large circuits with many components can be constructed on double layer PCBs and on Multilayer PCBs.
Generally in modern electronic gadgets like smartphones and laptops, Multilayer PCBs are used which are highly dense in number of components.
Typically, a Smartphone PCB contains thousands of components.
In upcoming posts more topics related to PCB will be covered.




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