PCB DESIGN & ANALYSIS * Email Subscribe FEATURED CONTENT Stay connected with the latest news, resources, and product information for all of your electronic system design needs Electronic Interconnects: Maintain Connectivity in a Multi-Board PCB System Electronic interconnects are imperative to managing a multi-board PCB system in electronics design. Find out the necessities for connectivity here. Read Article How the Role of a PCB Designer Changes With the Size of the Company Board design is board design, right? In terms of polygons and traces, it’s the same process but the approach you have to take is quite different from start-up to tech-giant. Read Article Can You Afford to Skip the CAM Process When You Tape Out a Printed Circuit Board? You may have seen the advertising already. Some PCB fab shops will provide a quotation based on a questionnaire that details the pertinent factors... Read Article FREE WEBINAR Intelligent Cross-Platform Workflows for RF PCB Integration LEARN MORE Design Rule Check Demystified Performing design rule checks early on helps ensure the manufacturability of your PCB. Read Article LEARN MORE What Is Documentation in PCB Manufacturing? Documenting your entire design process may seem tedious or inconvenient at times, but it ends up being a critical piece of creating a great product. PCB design is no exception. Read Article EDA 101: Schematic Capture and Logical Design Every PCB design starts out as a circuit diagram. Remember those universal symbols you used to represent resistors, capacitors, and other components in a circuit diagram? Read Article Introduction to Hierarchical Schematic Design PCB designs can get pretty complex. If you’ve ever struggled with matching net names and resolving errors across traditional multi-page flat schematics, it may be time to give hierarchical... Read Article Lost in Transmission: Solving Common Issues in High-Speed Design Creating a printed circuit board with high-speed design functionality is no small feat. The more complex a PCB design becomes, the higher the chances are of running into high-speed PCB design issues. Read Flipbook EK Power Success Story When we are thinking about what is best for the customer in the long-run, the answer is that we need to push the organization forward and align us with the customer’s needs. Using OrCAD Capture CIS... Read Flipbook The Ethernet is Coming For Your Ride Automotive Ethernet. It really is a thing. Our cars will have to outsmart our phones if we’re going to hand over the reins in any meaningful (and safe!) way. Read Article Early Stage Design Considerations of Starting a PCB Project from Scratch There’s nothing quite like the smell of hot solder on a Sunday afternoon, tinkering in your basement as you bring a new electronic concept to life. PCBs are the foundation of modern electronics. Read Article Allegro PCB Editor Demo The Cadence® Allegro® PCB Editor helps bring your innovative and bleeding-edge designs to life. Read Article FLEXing Like a PCB Expert Flex PCB design has many advantages. Along with those benefits come new design challenges that weren’t present in “standard” 2D PCBs. Read Flipbook What is a PCB Netlist? So you’ve created a PCB schematic using OrCAD Capture, and you’re ready to take your design to the next step in the electronic design automation (EDA) process with a PCB layout tool... Read Article Five Tell-Tale Signs of a Bad Power Distribution Network Given multiple power supply voltages, PCBs with high layer counts, or split planes, designing a PDN can be a daunting process. Here are five signs that a PDN needs some design adjustments. Read Article DDR Bus Design for PCB Engineers Last summer, Cadence and Micron prototyped the first IP interface in silicon for a preliminary version of the DDR5-4400 IMC. The new chip clocked in at an impressive.... Read Article DRC Browser Double check your DFM rules before signoff with a forced batch check of all rules for your whole design. If you do find something awry, it’s easy to locate and fix in your design. Read Article Real-Time DFT Rules Easily ensure test points are accessible in your designs. Read Article Techniques for Optimizing Return Paths That return path may or may not be the one that was designed for the circuit. A poorly designed return path will result in the return currents wandering around and escaping as electromagnetic... Read Article 10 Common Design for Manufacturing (DFM) Issues and How to Solve Them Every day is a busy for PCB Designers; strict schedules and tight deadlines are a normal occurrence. 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