PCB Design Tips: 5 Need-to-Know Component Assembly Methods

Part of a designer’s professional developments should be to learn as much as possible about the activities that go before and come after the layout process. And with today’s highly complex designs, the assembly process has grown in importance and has become a major concern for designers.

A basic understanding of the assembly step is to know the various ways in which the components are attached to the board. These methods depend on the type of components (thru-hole or SMD) and their location (one side or two sides). The combinations of the component types and location are as follows, along with the associated assembly methods: