Aopen ax3smax User Manual
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All conductors resist the flow of current to some extent and in order to eliminate resistance to minimum, a most economical way
to reduce resistance is to make conductor as efficient as possible by providing so-called “conduit” to channel the current flow.
Resistance also creates heat and it has to be reduced to a controllable level. What AOpen engineers are doing is to provide a
better path to reach optimum power route to efficiently deliver power (both voltage and current) to destination without creating
heat that’s normally accompanied by high current with resistance during the journey.
In a typical motherboard design, there are 4 layers of copper for the entire circuitry where both VCC and ground are sandwiched
between solder side and component side. In the older generation motherboard when bus speed and component numbers are
low, it is quite sufficient, but as the performance of today’s personal computer has reached to PC133 and operating over 1GHz
in CPU speed, the old method seems to be crippled by dilemma. Today’s motherboard design faces challenge of providing fast
Power Bridge