A system for providing selective adhesion printed circuit board (PCB) production comprises a conveyor mechanism, a curing system, and a computer. The conveyor mechanism is configured to convey a series of selective adhesion blanks, wherein each selective adhesion blank is utilized to produce a PCB and includes a flexible film, a substrate, a conductive layer, and a curable adhesive. The conductive layer is formed from electrically conductive material and adhered to the substrate. The curable adhesive is positioned between the flexible film and the conductive layer and is configured to selectively bond with the conductive layer when the curable adhesive is cured. The curing system is configured to cure the curable adhesive. The computer includes a processing element configured or programmed to: receive a plurality of PCB designs, and direct the curing system to cure the curable adhesive of a plurality of selective adhesion blanks for each PCB design.

Disclosed are a method, system and device for manufacturing a printed circuit board, and a computer storage medium. The method comprises: acquiring a printed circuit board to be manufactured which includes a via hole; acquiring shape information of the via hole; acquiring connection information of circuit layers in said printed circuit board; assembling preset conducting devices according to the connection information and the shape information, so as to obtain a target conducting device that matches the connection information and the shape information; guiding the target conducting device into the via hole to obtain a conducting printed circuit board; and connecting the conducting printed circuit board to obtain a target printed circuit board, wherein the types of the preset conducting devices comprise a metal conducting device, a non-metal conducting device and a semi-metal conducting device.

A board design assistance device includes a design data acquirer to acquire design data for a printed circuit board, a first determiner to determine, based on the design data for the printed circuit board, whether a lengthwise direction of board fiber in the printed circuit board is perpendicular to a longitudinal direction of an electronic component mounted on the printed circuit board, a second determiner to determine, based on the design data for the printed circuit board, whether a wire is routed crosswise from a pad receiving the electronic component mounted on the printed circuit board, and a notifier to provide a notification including error information specifying an electronic component determined to have a longitudinal direction not perpendicular to the lengthwise direction of the board fiber and determined to be connected to a pad from which a wire is not routed crosswise.

An image processing device that processes an image in which a wiring pattern is drawn and outputs the image as raster data in which formation content of wiring print dots is defined for each pixel, includes an input section that receives the image, a scan section that sequentially performs scanning in a scan direction at intervals of the pixel width, a calculation section that calculates an intersection-to-intersection distance in the scan direction based on positions of the intersection points, and a determination section that determines a line width of the wire in the scan direction and determine formation of dots for the determined line width for each pixel based on the intersection-to-intersection distance, the prescribed width, and a line width of an inclination wire which is the line width, in the scan direction, of a wire inclined according to the prescribed angle.

The present invention relates to a method for manufacturing an electronic or electrical system, the method comprising the layer-free production of at least one physical structure (101, 102) which is designed to guide electromagnetic waves, using at least one additively operating apparatus, wherein the layer-free production of the spatial, layer-free structure comprises the simultaneous or sequential application and/or removal of one or more materials in the spatial arrangement, as a result of which the electronic or electrical system is partially or completely formed. The invention further relates to a system which is manufactured in accordance with the method.

A stencil-avoidance design method, a stencil-avoidance design device, an electronic device, and a non-transitory storage medium are provided. The method includes: obtaining a plurality of first regions and a plurality of first stencil aperture regions; determining whether a shortest distance between a selected first region of the plurality of first regions and a selected first stencil aperture region of the plurality of first stencil aperture regions is within a preset threshold range; further obtaining a second region and a second stencil aperture region if the shortest distance is within the preset threshold range, and then obtaining a third region; performing a collision step if a collision test is required, and obtaining a final stencil aperture region. The above method can improve the efficiency, accuracy, coverage, and comprehensiveness of the stencil avoidance design.

A system and method for performing time-dependent reliability prediction of a printed circuit board (PCB) embedded in a sensor that monitors the health (viz., performance) of operating equipment subject to different environmental stressors. The method includes developing a digital twin (DT) of the physical PCB, generating sensor data, transmitting the sensor data, and receiving sensor data and historical conditional data by the twinning module, wherein the historical condition data includes known failure data of one or more electronic components of the circuit board based on an internal condition or and external condition. The method further includes embedded physics-based reliability models informed by inputs from the sensor data and the historical conditional data, generating a real-time failure prediction signal based on the physics-based reliability models, and reporting the real-time failure prediction signal. The circuit board may include printed circuit boards (PCBs), particularly additively-manufactured printed circuit boards (AM-PCBs).

Various exemplary embodiments relate to a printed circuit board (PCB) for electrically connecting a discrete array component including a pattern formed on the PCB which is a merger of a set of via pads and a discrete array component; wherein the pattern is generated by a pin mapping between the discrete array component and a via grid array on the PCB; and wherein the pattern is formed of a metal etched during a manufacturing process of the PCB.

A method for increasing the decoupling capacitance in a microelectronic circuit. The method comprises producing a circuit design of the microelectronic circuit, analyzing the produced circuit design, and subsequently filling gaps in the circuit design by cells with decoupling capacitor.

A method includes: providing a first layout of a first layer over a substrate, the first layer having at least one metal pattern, and generating a second layout by placing a cut mask at a first position relative to the substrate to remove material from a first region of the at least one metal pattern to provide a first metal pattern and placing the cut mask at a second position relative to the first layer over the substrate to remove material from a second region of the at least one metal pattern to provide a second metal pattern.