PCB Design Hacks and Best Practices
Via stubs are a hidden threat to signal integrity. Learn the physics of quarter-wave resonance and how backdrilling or blind vias prevent destructive signal interference in your high-speed PCB design
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Exploring the points in the fabrication and assembly processes where electrical testing is warranted.
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Discover why decoupling capacitor placement becomes a critical challenge in HDI PCB designs. Learn how to overcome constraints like fine-pitch BGAs, stacked microvias, and PDN complexities for optimal
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Struggling with signal integrity in PCB design? Discover how routing topology, via strategy, and stackup choice secretly cause SI failures, with real examples revealing the cause-and-effect chain.
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Understand HDI PCB design by tackling resin flow, glass weave, and dielectric behavior. Prevent defects like voids, skew, and delamination in high-density stackups
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Learn how HDI PCBs and microvias reshape high-speed signal return paths. Discover critical stitching strategies for DDR5, PCIe Gen5/6, and USB4 to maintain signal integrity in dense BGAs.
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PCB Designers may multitask on library management but a centralized library will ensure consistent quality of the underlying schematic and board symbols.
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Design For Manufacturing encompasses all of the factors that affect reproducibility and longevity of the bare printed circuit board. Call it “Design For Money!”
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lerances are a mixture of design requirements and factory capability. This article looks at three methods to dimension a printed circuit board, depending on complexity.
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Time to market is one of the key drivers of a successful product launch. Parallel PCB Design can accelerate the process
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Exploring the points in the fabrication and assembly processes where an inspection is warranted.
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Design Reviews help us stay focused and on track to successfully complete the PCBA design
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Learn how microvias improve PCB design by enhancing signal integrity, power integrity, and thermal management in high-density interconnect (HDI) technology.
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Reviewing the long tenure of OrCAD tools as they grew from schematic capture to a complete end-to-end solution for PCB Design
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FPC/FPCA Design is closely tied to the mechanical requirements. Our job is to make sure those requirements make sense.
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A recent update to the UCIe specification is cause for a review of chiplet technology to date.
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PCB West 2025; a four-day learning opportunity for PCB or substrate designers. It also includes a one-day chance to talk shop with over 100 exhibitors.
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An overview of the best and worst things about a career in PCB Design
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Learn how teamwork and outsourcing solved complex HDI PCB design challenges. Real-world case study on managing vendors and compressed timelines.
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Tips for managing heat dissipation on a printed circuit board assembly.
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