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Component Selection: Differences In Prototyping, Pilot, and Production

The lifecycle stage of a new product dictates what types of components you can and should design into that iteration. Sometimes you need speed, othe..

Related Parts

Today we are releasing our new “Related Parts” section of the detail page. This new section will help you to discover secondary parts and categories that are linked to the component you’re viewing.

Contract Manufacturer Quotes

At some point, you’ve prototyped all the prototypes and gone from REV1 to REV12. In short, you’ve made your final production prototype. It’s tim..

Improving RiskRank

In June of 2015, Parts.io became the first electronic component search engine to quantify risk on all components in the supply chain with RiskRank. ..

Schematics by the Book – Adjustable Siren

Build a simple siren using two transistors, a speaker and a bunch of passive components! It’s a simple way to get started and we’ll show you places to find the parts.

Schematics By The Book – Mic Preamp

Schematics By The Book is a series highlighting educational and practice circuits from our favorite electronics books. Each post contains a link to ..

Parts.io: Enabling Confidence in Design

Parts.io is committed to ending surprises before they happen by giving you the data you need, when you need it — giving you confidence in design.

Schematics By The Book – Voltage Indicator

Schematics By The Book is a series highlighting educational and practice circuits from our favorite electronics books. Each post contains a link to ..

Schematics By The Book – Decimal to Binary Converter

Schematics By The Book is a series highlighting educational and practice circuits from our favorite electronics books. Each post contains a link to ..

Buying in Bulk for your Contract Manufacturer

You need to supply hundreds or thousands of components to your contract manufacturer, so now you’re buying in bulk – what should you be prepared to order?

What’s all this “millicandela” anyhow?

Explaining the definition of the LED millicandela specification and how it can be used to pick one LED over another.

What’s all this “input bias current” anyhow?

An ideal op-amp has no (bias) current flow at the inputs. The world is not ideal.

Critical Production Parts

The first step in any design is identifying the critical production parts and securing them in order to reduce the overall risk of manufacturing the product.

Working With Purchasing Departments

Understanding how to interaction with a purchasing departments allows engineers to optimize for getting products manufactured without delay.

Parts.io Natural Language Search

You don’t always know what part number you’re searching for. The parts.io infer service makes component search more like natural language.

Visualizing Parts.io Data

Parts.io gathers data about electronics components from a variety of sources: composite pricing from distributor sources, popularity from searches a..

The Shrinking Engineering Support Network

Shrinking engineering support network available at companies means engineers are on the hook for more tasks and more work overall.

The Last Mile of Electronics BOMs

Upwards of 70% of the total number of parts listed on a BOM are passives. What do you do when you need fill out the part numbers?

Popularity Contests Can Be Helpful

Parts.io search results are ranked in order of popularity: the part most searched for is the part that bubbles up to the top of the search ranking.

Schematics By The Book – Metronome

Schematics By The Book is a series highlighting educational and practice circuits from our favorite electronics ..

What’s all this “dropout voltage” anyhow?

You can’t get something from nothing. When it comes to voltage regulation, you can’t make a well regulated output from the exact same input voltage…

Production Part Lead Time

Part lead time (how long it takes from ordering a part to it being delivered) is a determining factor in the risk of getting a product manufactured on schedule.

Open Parts.io

Parts.io is now fully open to the public. No registration required. All the data. Free.

Parts.io was launched in September of 2014 to a limited aud..

Working with Contract Manufacturers

When you’re a small or solo engineer, working with contract manufacturers requires flexibility for the partnership to work well.

What’s all this “diode forward voltage” anyhow?

The purpose of a diode is to allow current to flow easily in one direction, anode to cathode, while blocking current flow in the opposite direction,..

There's a dearth of analog design capability out there today, not because people can't do it or won't do it, but because it hasn't been taught.
Jim Williams
Analog Engineer, Linear Technology

Schematics By The Book – Metronome

Schematics By The Book is a series highlighting educational and practice circuits from our favorite electronics ..

What’s all this “dropout voltage” anyhow?

You can’t get something from nothing. When it comes to voltage regulation, you can’t make a well regulated output from the exact same input voltage…

Production Part Lead Time

Part lead time (how long it takes from ordering a part to it being delivered) is a determining factor in the risk of getting a product manufactured on schedule.

Open Parts.io

Parts.io is now fully open to the public. No registration required. All the data. Free.

Parts.io was launched in September of 2014 to a limited aud..

Working with Contract Manufacturers

When you’re a small or solo engineer, working with contract manufacturers requires flexibility for the partnership to work well.

What’s all this “diode forward voltage” anyhow?

The purpose of a diode is to allow current to flow easily in one direction, anode to cathode, while blocking current flow in the opposite direction,..

There's a dearth of analog design capability out there today, not because people can't do it or won't do it, but because it hasn't been taught.
Jim Williams
Analog Engineer, Linear Technology

What’s all this “input offset voltage”, anyhow?

An explanation of what the op-amp specification “input offset voltage” means.

Bunnie Huang discusses BOMs

Bunnie Huang explains what a good bill of materials (BOM) should actually look like for anyone working with a manufacturing partner. Talk recorded September 22nd at Highway1.

The main problem is that people tend to trust [SPICE] answers, as they trust most computers, long after the reason to trust it should have evaporated...
Bob Pease
Applications engineer at National Semiconductor

Measuring And Quantifying Risk Using Data – The Parts.io Risk Rank

Low risk parts can actually be bought and assembled into products. Choosing parts with a low Risk Rank will provide the best experience for manufacturing.

Parts.io Composite Price

We are excited to introduce the Parts.io Composite Price. The Composite Price provides a current, single price view across the electronic distributo..

Supercharging Parts.io Data

Here at Parts.io, we’re all about data. It is so important to have the most available information when discovering and deciding on new components. T..

A discussion of manufacturing low cost test equipment

Mark Garrison of Saleae and James Whong of Mooshim talk about the manufacturing challenges to making low cost test equipment.

Parts.io at the Analog Aficionados Dinner

Parts.io had the opportunity to attend and sponsor the Analog Aficionados dinner along with a cadre of other great companies.

Our Official Parts.io Launch At DesignCon

We’re excited to be announcing the official parts.io launch at DesignCon, currently running at the Santa Clara convention center.

But wait, has..

Today’s Interesting Part (TIP)

We’ve started playing around with a new way of sharing info with users. Well, new to us: Twitter!

We’ve had a Twitter account from the beginning ..