April 2015 Updates

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Date Published:	April 30, 2015
Last Modified:	April 30, 2015

Tidied up the Mercurial ignore file section of the website.
The Mercurial (Hg) SCM logo.
Moved the SMA (DO-214AC), D2PAK (TO-263), DO-35, DO-41, E-Line, EEP, HC-49/US, LGA, Mini-DIP SPM, QIP, SIP, SMD35, SOD-110, SOD-123F, SOD-128, SOD-323 (SC-76), SOD-723, SOJ, SOP-4, SOT-1193, SOT-1226, SOT-223, SOT-23, SOT-323, SOT-363, SOT-523F, SOT-563, SOT-762-1, SOT-886, SOT-902, SPM23, TO-220AB component packages onto their own pages.
Added a section on Saturation to the Inductors page.
Inductance vs. current graph of the Wurth 7447789003, a 3.3uH ferrite SMD inductor with a specified saturation current of 4.2A.
Watermarking added to all images on the site, thanks to the Add Watermarks plugin.
Moved the Boost Converter, Buck Converter, Buck-Boost Converter, SEPIC and Charge Pump pages to be child pages of a new SMPS sub-section (as of Dec 2017, URL unavailable). Also added basic diagrams for buck and boost converters.
New page on the SDQ interface.


	  
	    
	  
	  
	  
	  
	  
	  

	  
	  
	  The basic components of an inverting buck-boost converter.

Added a Protocol Bridges section to the USB page.
New page on the IO-Link protocol.
New page on Futures And Promises.
Added the SOT-723 Component Package page.
A 3D render of the SOT-723 component package.
New page on Designators added under PCB Design.
Added a new page, Reading And Writing To Files under the Altium Scripting page.
Updates to the DPAK Component Package page.
New page, Layer Stackup under PCB Design.

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