The passive component industry — the manufacturers who make the boring but vital resistors, capacitors, and diodes found in every single electronic device — is on the cusp of a shortage. You’ll always ...

With great apologies to William Shakespeare, "a resistor, a resistor, my kingdom for a 47k, 1% resistor in an 0805 SMT package on a tape and reel dispensor." That cry, or similar, has been echoed by ...

Recently we started a series on the components used to assemble a circuit board. The first issue was on dispensing solder paste. Moving down the assembly line, with the paste already on the board, the ...