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 – 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.
Schematics By The Book – Metronome
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.
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...
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 ..
Inside Baseball – Talk about Parts.io
Sometimes you want to learn more about how something is made (engineers, I’m looking at you). Sometimes you want want to stay as far as possible fro..
Wait, why do I have to register for parts.io?
As we’ve gone live with Parts.io and started to introduce it to more people than our early group of alpha testers, we’ve been getting great feed..
We’re Live!
Part of the Parts.io team (heh) was at Electronica this week. We were demoing the site to our friends in Europe, sampling the local cuisine and ..