Instructions on removing the epoxy coating, isolating IC pins from shorting to newly uncovered tracks, matching pinouts between the COB (Chip On Board, the epoxy-covered silicon) and the QFP ...

When Sparkfun visited the factory that makes their multimeters and photographed a mysterious industrial process. We all know that the little black globs on electronics has a semiconductor of some ...

A bare chip that is mounted directly onto the printed circuit board (PCB). After the wires are attached, a glob of epoxy or plastic is used to cover the chip and its connections. The tape ...

Luminus Devices has released of its Generation 2 Warm Dimming COB (Chip on Board) LEDs, engineered to deliver an a lighting ...