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 ...

Electronic enclosures tend to have high thermal mass, which gives an opportunity to use them as a heat sink for a design. By ...

Artificial intelligence is rapidly reshaping the way printed circuit boards (PCBs) are designed, validated, and optimised.

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PCB designing tools are very useful and helpful for a designer to design a PCB. There are many of these software. But for most of these software, we have to spend monies to buy them. The ones we get ...

Considerations for dividing analog and digital blocks. Decoupling techniques. Breaking down the board layers. How best to deal with grounding. Similar to building a house, it’s essential to create a ...

For years, the worlds of electronic and mechanical computer aided design have evolved along very separate paths. It was never intended to happen this way. For example, the Design Automation Conference ...

A supplier of rigid, flex, and rigid flex printed circuits announces the latest addition of services to their portfolio: printed circuit board engineering, design and layout. RENO, NV—Effective the ...

The Ball Grid Array, or BGA package is no longer the exclusive preserve of large, complex chips on computer motherboards: today even simple microcontrollers are available with those little solder ...

Engineer bends layout tool into vector renderer, then pushes frames through a MacBook's headphone jack There's a certain ...