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PCB design best practices: thermal analysis

Designing today’s complex PCB is no easy task. It requires a full understanding of the basics of PCB design, a…

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PCB design best practices: schematic analysis

What is PCB schematic analysis? PCB schematic analysis is the automated analysis of each net within a schematic prior to…

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PCB design best practices pillar 3: digital prototype-driven verification

Today I will outline our third pillar of PCB design best practices, digital prototype-driven verification. When it comes to digital…

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PCB design best practices: Designing for advanced manufacturing technologies like rigid-flex PCB design and High-Density Interconnect

The next best practice I want to discuss as a part of engineering productivity and efficiency is designing for advanced…

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PCB design best practices: constraint-driven design

The next best practice within the engineering productivity and efficiency pillar is constraint-driven design. What is constraint-driven design? Constraint-driven design…

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PCB design best practices: design reuse

The next best practice in this pillar that I’m going to dive deeper into is design reuse. I can tell…

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PCB design best practices: concurrent design

The second PCB design best practice that falls into the engineering productivity and efficiency pillar is concurrent design. What is…

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PCB design best practices: design automation

When we think about the PCB design best practices that fall into the engineering productivity and efficiency pillar, we need…

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PCB design best practices pillar 2: engineering productivity and efficiency

As I outlined in my first blog, there are five pillars of PCB design best practices. The first pillar we…