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To make the best choice for PCB layout tools, here are some features to keep in mind during your evaluation.
Adjustments to Default CAD Settings to Ease Life as a PCB Designer
To be more productive with your PCB design tools, there are many different default CAD settings that you can change. Here is more information on how that works.
Design for Electronics Recycling: Best Practices
How do I institute a design for electronics recycling strategy? In this blog, we give you the answers you need.
Engineering Productivity and Design Reuse Tools for Effective PCB Design
You can drastically cut your design time down while at the same time reduce the chance for errors by utilizing engineering productivity and design reuse tools.
Design Tool Customization for PCB Design Efficiency
To stay on top of the growing demand for electronics design in the world today, PCB designers need design tool customization for PCB design efficiency.
Why Getting The Right Schematic Design Software Matters For PCB Designers
Schematic design software is more than just a simple tool, it should be augmented with great features like DRCs and component libraries.
Multi Circuit Board Design Rules to Speed Up Design Time
You can avoid a lot of design and manufacturing problems as well as saving time on your next PCB design by saving multi circuit board design rules for reuse.
Engineering Prototyping Workflow Management For PCB Design
Prototyping can be one of the most stressful parts of production. Engineering prototyping workflow management will ensure even under duress your process maintains.
Incorporating Manufacturing Overhead and Production Volume Variance in Your Design Process
By incorporating manufacturing overhead management based upon product volume variance you can achieve the best-built boards and reduce turnaround time and costs.
How to Avoid PCB Assembly and Subassembly Redesign
No one likes doing the same task over when it could have been done better the first time. By implementing DFM and DFA, you can avoid the wasted time, additional cost, and frustration of PCB assembly a
Overcoming the Product Design Challenges in Internet of Things (IoT)
Developing smart systems presents unique product design challenges in the Internet of Things (IoT). Read this blog to learn what common challenges are and how to overcome them.
Design Reuse Within a PCB Layout and Beyond
As PCB Designers, we are often tasked with filling out a board with geometry that repeats itself. Better physical resemblance usually equals better performance.
What is Annotation and Back Annotation in PCB Design?
There are two cases where the words annotation and back-annotation will come up in the context of PCB design. One has to do with the general EDA (electronic design automation) workflow:...
The End Game - Winding Down a Successful Product
Let the good times roll. The invention launched and took the market by storm. After climbing the mass production ramp and catching up with demand, the object of desire settled into a nice run...
Sustaining Engineering - What to do After You Hit a Homerun
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On Board, as in Life, Timing is Everything (almost) | PCB Trace Length – Staying in the Sweet Spot
We are lucky to have the technology that helps us manage timing constraints. X-nets, pin-pairs, and match-groups may seem a little daunting at first. Once mastered, these are fantastic tools for...
PSpice-MATLAB Visualization Interface
The powerful waveform analysis capability of PSpice gets another boost by enabling simulation results exporting to MATLAB. Now PSpice users have complete and seamless access to MATLAB plotting...
Webinar- Accelerate Your PCB Designs
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UPDATED: OrCAD Capture Keyboard Shortcut Cheat Sheet
After designing the Pspice keyboard shortcut infographic, we realized OrCAD Capture users could benefit from a shortcuts cheat sheet as well. The cheat sheet includes all the common shortcuts...
UPDATED: PSpice Keyboard Shortcuts Cheat Sheet
Here at EMA, we know that time is an engineer’s most valuable asset. Sadly, adding more time to the day isn’t an option, but we are constantly looking at ways we can help our users save time. This...