Find a downloadable version of this story in pdf format at the end of the story. Today's electrical and electronic systems are being asked to deliver higher performance, higher quality, and more ...

Not every system requires laminated bus bars. In some rack-mounted systems, current levels don’t rise above the capacity of a backplane. In other cases, there are relatively few taps off the power bus ...

Despite the widespread use of low-power ICs—or counterintuitively, because of it—DC power-rail currents on PCBs keep increasing. It’s not unusual to have a modest-size board drawing high tens of amps ...