October 27, 2013
Forty six companies have joined the consortium developing the increasingly important IPC-2581 data transfer standard for PCB designs.
May 8, 2013
Electrical rule checks (ERC) are now available to deal with increasing PCB design complexity, speed project delivery and protect the intellectual property within them.
April 10, 2013
An increasingly important concept in design is that of product creation. An approach based on product creation looks beyond chip or board design.
October 23, 2012
Early use of design for manufacturing can capture PCB yield issues related to pads, copper distribution, same net slivers and more
August 6, 2012
Speeding up electronics design by learning lessons in increasing parallelism from computer science.
April 5, 2012
Advanced PCB and IC technologies have to be matched with advanced design and analysis tools if companies are going to produce board designs that are right first time, on time.
March 7, 2012
‘Envelope tracking’ is not a new technique; it has been known about for more than 50 years. But it could greatly help the power consumption challenges once more facing mobile handset design.
September 10, 2010
Signal integrity (SI) issues have been around for a while, the result of ever-faster edge rates. Both SI and PI problems manifest themselves as data errors. Indeed, PI problems are often misdiagnosed as SI problems. As such, an understanding of power delivery issues is essential to the success of any board project, as is a [...]
May 1, 2009
You must find, fix and design out signal integrity problems before committing to hardware. Simulation is the key.
May 1, 2009
The earlier in a design cycle a decision can be made, the shorter the development time and the lower the development cost. This is probably the most important product development principle, and is especially true when interconnects are not transparent and signal or power integrity could be holding back performance. You must find, fix and […]