One of the issues commonly seen in PCB design is silkscreen information overlapping exposed copper on pads. If the ink from the silkscreening process

For USB powered devices, controlling the power consumption is important. As documented in the USB2.0 specification, the maximum power draw possible fo

Sockets for through-hole parts (specifically DIP components) tend to cause issues with sending manufacturing data to an assembler for PCBs. Usually a

I mentioned FT-Prog in my last blog post. FT-Prog is a utility to program the EEPROM on FTDI devices. FT-Prog can configure the FT230X and add more fu

With USB interfaces on microcontroller devices a USB connection always adds significant cost to the design. An ATMega328P costs $3.12 whereas the FT23