Those of us hardware types that spend a lot of time designing PCBs will often look at other peoples’ designs with interest, and in some cases, considerable admiration. Some of their boards just look ...

Is FR-4 the Best Board Material Choice for High Speed PCB Design? We’ve all been there at one time or another when we’re tasked with a project that lies outside our comfort zone. For me, that day came ...

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 ...

Today’s electronic devices market demands miniaturized printed circuit boards (PCBs) with a multitude of high-speed functions integrated on a single board. This causes the designers to have traces ...

Thanks to the relatively recent rise of affordable board production services, many of the people reading Hackaday are just now learning the ropes of PCB design. For those still producing the FR4 ...

Xilinx and Ansoft have created a Xilinx Virtex-II Pro X FPGA-based gigabit interconnect design kit for high-speed PCB and backplane designs. The kit is designed to predict the quality of a signal and ...

Siemens Digital Industries Software announced today that it is making its AI-enhanced electronic systems design technology more accessible to small and mid-sized businesses (SMB) with PADS™ Pro ...