Various techniques—ranging from x-ray and optical inspection through functional electrical test—have emerged to shorten time to market and reduce test costs while maintaining thorough fault coverage.

Printed circuit board (PCB) design is a complex endeavor, but it’s more manageable when you have access to the right tools. Numerous companies now offer PCB design tools that allow collaboration ...

1. PCB design represents just one segment of a larger system design that starts with integrated-circuit fabrication. Higher-speed connections and SWaP (size, weight, and power) consistently raise the ...

Several browser-based PCB design tools have emerged in the past couple of years, yet the vast majority of designers are still using the same desktop applications that have dominated the EDA industry ...

We live in a golden age of free Electronic Design Automation (EDA) tools. It wasn’t that long ago that an engineering workstation was an expensive piece of hardware running very expensive software ...

RS Components has announced the latest release of DesignSpark PCB, its free downloadable PCB design tool, which now can draw the approximate routing path and allow algorithms to draw the best tracks ...

As PCB hybrid manufacturing makes greater inroads with microelectronics manufacturing, new inspection tools are coming to the fore. In our industry, microelectronics manufacturing is increasingly ...

We see a lot of projects using Eagle for the schematics and PCB layout. There are a few that use Kicad, but we hear very little about other alternatives. Recently, [Limpkin] has been working with ...

Mentor Graphics is bringing together the IC design, package design and PCB layout in a single tool environment. The design environment called Xpedition Package Integrator flow can be used to integrate ...