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The road to resilience at the point of design: Optimization

On our last two episodes of the Printed Circuit Podcast, we talked about the road to PCB supply chain resilience,…

The Mysterious Case of the Missing Bowties Part I

It was just another Monday at the office. I had released a design I had been working on for four…

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PCB design best practice: design and manufacturing collaboration

Another best practice to talk about within the digitally integrated and optimized pillar is the collaboration between design and manufacturing…

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Considerations for rigid-flex design

Rigid-flex design introduces several challenges that many of today’s design tools cannot handle. These could include: The best way to…

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PCB design best practice: ECAD/MCAD co-design

When we think about the PCB design best practices that fall into the digitally integrated and optimized pillar, we need…

Siemens_PCBflow_IPC_APEX 2023

Siemens PCBflow at IPC APEX 2023. Discover the latest advances in DFM.

San Diego, CA, USA, January 24-25, 2023 Over the past few years Design for Manufacturing (DFM) analysis has become a…

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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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The road to resilience at the point of design: Intelligence

In our fourth episode of the Printed Circuit Podcast, we talk about how to create resilience at the point of…

PCB DFM Constraints with Valor NPI

Advanced DFM Constraints management in ADM (Analysis Definition Manager)- Valor NPI 2211

The Analysis Definition Manager (ADM), introduced in Valor NPI 10.0, is a constraints management tool for creating and maintaining sets of Design for Manufacturing DFM rules to be used during the analysis in Valor NPI.