I’ve experienced a lot of pain with a recent project and wanted to share some thoughts: I was doing the PCB layout on a time-critical project and needed component footprints and 3D step models. Many ...

Recent studies and industry guidelines highlight advanced thermal simulation, material choices, and layout techniques as critical for managing heat in high-power printed circuit boards. Researchers ...

PCB Design Best Practices: Six things to consider when transferring a PCB schematic to layout. All the examples in this article are developed using the NI Multisim design environment, however the same ...

A tool that can strip away complex CAD layers, revealing PCB signals instantly and hinting at a shift in how engineers access ...

A switch supports PCB design with performance, assembly, and operation, helping engineers fit configuration functions into ...

Cadence Design Systems has started bringing artificial intelligence (AI) into the fold on its flagship chip design suite to help designers build smaller, faster processors that consume less power and ...

Moore’s law, applied to data rates, has pushed PCB circuits so fast that the layout becomes part of the circuit. In designs such as DDR3 and PCIe, the fastest memory and high-speed serial performance ...

High-power electronics are pushing PCBs to their thermal limits, demanding smarter materials, layouts, and cooling strategies. Engineers are turning to advanced substrates, copper designs, and hybrid ...

It is a good day for design review! Today’s board is the MuBook, a Lattepanda Mu SoM (System-on-Module) carrier from [LtBrain], optimized for a NAS with 4 SATA and 2 NVMe ports. It is cheap to ...