November 2025 PCB007 Magazine: Getting to Know Our Columnists

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Don Ball: It’s Never Felt Like ‘Work’

12/01/2025 |
For the November issue of PCB007 Magazine, I was sent a list of questions that would highlight my personality and career. If you’ve read my previous columns, you know I am not reluctant to talk about myself, so here it goes. In my freshman year, inspired by the 1960 Olympics in Rome, I decided to try out for the track team. Of course, I wanted to attain glory as a sprinter, but this turned out to be a less-than-optimal pursuit, and I gradually moved up in distance to become a miler.

I-Connect007 Editor’s Choice: Five Must-Reads for the Week

11/28/2025 | Nolan Johnson, I-Connect007
Yesterday was the U.S. Thanksgiving holiday. The traditional meal is, of course, roast turkey with “all the trimmings.” Although not everyone observes that menu, most do, and it was reported that 42 million turkeys were consumed on that day. With an average weight of 16 pounds per turkey, we cooked up 672 million pounds! With approximately 342 million people in the U.S, that pencils out to just under two pounds of drumstick and white meat per person. That, my friends, is a whole lot of leftovers.

I-Connect007 Editor’s Choice: Five Must-Reads for the Week

11/21/2025 | Michelle Te, I-Connect007
Were you one of the lucky ones who made it to Europe’s largest electronics trade show this week? By all accounts, this massive event was buzzing with new technologies, packed booths, and plenty of tired feet by the end of each day. So, if you’re heading home from productronica (or, like me, just enjoying the end of a busy week), now’s the perfect time to unwind a bit. Settle into that airplane seat (or office chair), grab a snack, and catch up on some great reads from I-Connect007.

I-Connect007 Editor’s Choice: Five Must-Reads for the Week

11/14/2025 | Nolan Johnson, I-Connect007
I read an interesting article this week about a breakthrough on building microprocessors to run on microwaves rather than traditional digital circuitry. It cites an academic study that begins, “The development of high-bandwidth applications, including multi-gigabit communication and radar imaging, demands faster processing. However, in the microwave regime, where frequencies exceed clock rates, sampling and computation become challenging. Here we report an integrated microwave neural network for broadband computation and communication.”

November 2025 Design007 Magazine: Proper Plane Design

11/10/2025 | I-Connect007 Editorial Team
Without planes, designers would have to create thousands of traces to accomplish the same objectives. Power planes provide low impedance and stable power to every component on the board, much like a large power bus. Ground planes stabilize reference voltage, improve thermal performance, and help preclude EMI issues. Power and ground plane design is often a battle of tradeoffs.