PCB layout

Ultra Librarian has developed an AI-driven CAD modeling engine that should slash the the time it takes to build component and subsystem models for PCB layout and system design.

Cadence has given its new release of OrCAD access to the cloud-based AI placer designed for its Allegro PCB-layout software.

Cadence Design Systems has expanded its use of machine learning for EDA into PCB design, joining a growing number of suppliers who have decided it is a sector that needs the AI treatment.

UK-based Trackwise has shipped what could easily be the longest ever flexible PCB with a 26m-long substrate to deliver power and control to a UAV's wings.

The vendor's experiences in enabling concurrent engineering in Xpedition Enterprise contain lessons for all design disciplines.

The latest release of Cadence's Allegro deals with flex PCBs, material inlays as well as tighter links to signal integrity.

Digi-Key is to sell software developed by Mentor Graphics intended to widen access to PCB design and ease access to vital parts data.

Mentor Graphics has added to its HyperLynx suite a tool that uses design-rule check (DRC) techniques rather than simulation to look for potential signal-integrity problems.