LaiKing
Expert and Innovative PCB Layout Design

Companies often use time-to-market metrics during product development and introduction to gain first-mover advantages. Today, with product development times getting increasingly shorter, component manufacturers are strategizing to assist their customers in successfully developing products within specific timeframes. Nowhere is this truer than in the semiconductor space, where businesses demand rapid turnaround times for complex print circuit boards (PCB).

Delivering just that is LaiKing Co. Ltd.

The company is a one-stop PCB printing service provider helmed by a team that has witnessed the evolution of PCB layout design from early manual mapping to computer-aided design (CAD) software.

In the current business landscape, PCB layout designs are transforming into more complex and powerful variants to integrate many components into limited spaces with high-density circuits. To meet this technological demand with the highest mobility and efficiency, LaiKing adopts a methodology that emphasizes teamwork, division of labor, and time-sharing to achieve various customer delivery times. The firm employs its layout engineers to work shifts and engage in tasks aligned with their specialized design process. Meanwhile, quality control engineers check the placement and routing to ensure the board designs produced in every batch are exceptional.

LaiKing offers PCB layouts for various electronic devices, including single-sided and multi-layered boards, dual in-line package (DIP), surface-mount device (SMD), double-sided component layout, and high-precision ball grid array (BGA) component packaging.

The firm’s PCB layout design prowess enables it to support the production of server boards, power over ethernet (POE) products, computer motherboards, , audio and video players, high-frequency wireless products, mobile phones, and power control boards. LaiKing’s ability to handle these diverse specifications is powered by OrCAD Capture for schematics capture and Cadence Allegro and Mentor Graphics PADS for PCB layout creation.

“While it looks like an art form on the outside, the core of PCB designing is science. Our job is to use both science and art to tailor a suitably perfect PCB to fit the client product,” says May Wu, head of sales, LaiKing Co. Ltd.

When engaging in PCB design, LaiKing’s teams are deployed as extensions of a client’s workforce. This enables it to consistently meet end-user requirements and ensure good quality control across the design and operational parameters on the front and back end. Only after a customer and LaiKing’s quality assurance (QA) team approve a design does the final Gerber file picture reach the production line. The firm also offers flexible support by providing PCB schematics layout tools from computing giants Intel and AMD.

Even in cases where customers experience hurdles when sourcing components, LaiKing leverages its network of subcontracted vendors to provide timely component sourcing and eliminate potential production delays.

In one instance, LaiKing was working on a server board project, which had mechanical limitations and complicated schematics. After placing most of the components onto the board, the company predicted the difficulty of realising the project due to a lack of routing space for the PCB layout. Subsequently, the team at LaiKing figured out the best solution by proposing to replace the existing components with smaller alternatives or mechanical changes to create more space.

LaiKing’s combination of seasoned engineers and a three-decade-long experience working with high-speed, digital, and analog signal designs sets it apart from market contemporaries. Moving forward, as digitalization and electronic mobility continue driving the need for high-quality electronic components and tailored services for the semiconductor industry, LaiKing aims to capitalize on emerging opportunities and support clients in unlocking transformative applications.