NSMD
Encyclopedia
NSMD can mean:
Notable examples are Organic labeling, Fair Trade certification, and Sustainable Forestry labels for forest products.
- Non-State Market Driven (NSMD) regulation refers to the variety of systems used to regulate the negative environmental and/or social impact of the production of consumer goods. Rather than traditional "command and control" regulation, NSMD schemes strive to use market forces to create shifts in industry.
Notable examples are Organic labeling, Fair Trade certification, and Sustainable Forestry labels for forest products.
- The "non-solder mask defined" (NSMD) PCBPrinted circuit boardA printed circuit board, or PCB, is used to mechanically support and electrically connect electronic components using conductive pathways, tracks or signal traces etched from copper sheets laminated onto a non-conductive substrate. It is also referred to as printed wiring board or etched wiring...
design style is recommended by some manufacturers http://www.fairchildsemi.com/an/AN/AN-5067.pdf http://extra.ivf.se/ngl/E-BGA/ChapterE2.htm http://www.xilinx.com/bvdocs/appnotes/xapp439.pdf, while others recommend the alternative "solder mask defined" (SMD) PCB design style.