A printed circuit board turns separate parts into a stable system that powers up, talks to peripherals, and survives real ...

There are certain design guidelines for PCBs that don’t make a lot of sense, and practices that seem excessive and unnecessary. Often these are motivated by the black magic that is RF transmi… ...

This white paper is designed to guide you through the intricacies of rigid-flex printed circuit board (PCB) design. In today’s electronics industry, there has never been more demand for compact, ...

This article presents a practical approach to the layout design of mixed-signal boards, discussing component placement, board layering, and ground-plane considerations.

Do you design or define PCB layouts? If so, what rules and checks do you have in place to make sure your results are… optimal? Over the years, I've created a PCB design checklist to keep me out of ...

The answer: It depends. Automated electrical rules to check for PCB correctness based on vendor guidelines are easier to run, though less accurate than looking at SI simulation waveforms. Hardware ...

However, accepting all guidelines at face value can lead to an over-defensive EMC strategy, and introduce project delays. Rules should be evaluated individually to determine if they apply to the ...

PCB design tools cannot deal with the number of database entries that an advanced package has, which today are in the millions. IC design tools, however, have been built to work on the enormous ...

Three independent design processes – chip, package, and PCB – are typically required for the latest electronic products which utilize increasingly complex ...

Theassumption of good high speed PCB design rules allows the minutia ofhigh speed design practice to be left out of the specification, asbrevity is a key feature to the approach.