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MCAD Collaboration with PADS Professional Premium

One of the trends emerging over the past several years is packing more and more functionality onto ever decreasing substrates….

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Routing automation

One of the most critical and time-consuming part of the PCB design cycle is interconnecting the design. Typically, this is…

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The core of PCB design: physical layout

Studies have shown that a majority of design time is spent on placement and routing. That said, over the past…

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The importance of collaboration and version management in PCB design

Companies that design electronic products often experience problems with team collaboration during the design process, making collaboration and version management…

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Variant management in the PCB design process

It’s typical for today’s electronic products to have different producible versions or variants. This is because a product may need…

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Board verification using simulation

Lack of signal integrity (SI) validation is one of the key reasons board designs fail in the field. That’s why…

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What’s new in PADS Professional release VX.2.12

The new VX.2.12 release of PADS Professional has improvements across the following areas: Array placement MCAD collaborator Physical reuse Improved…

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Make informed decisions with real-time electronic component sourcing data

An integral part of a PCB design engineer’s job is part selection. A lot of research and consideration goes into…

Part Selection and Library Definition

Electronic part selection and library creation made simple

Not long ago, a PCB engineer would download a components datasheet and start building library elements in their PCB design…