PCB design guidelines are created as benchmarks for circuit design engineers to meet the industry standards. Following these guidelines will ensure better manufacturability and robust product ...

Keysight’s Electrical Performance Scan (EP-Scan) is a digital simulation tool for hardware engineers and PCB designers that performs rapid signal integrity analysis. EP-Scan provides diagnostics to ...

Differential pairs in high-speed serial links require tight control of impedance, skew, and coupling to limit reflections, mode conversion, and crosstalk. At multi-gigabit data rates, small deviations ...

Considerations for dividing analog and digital blocks. Decoupling techniques. Breaking down the board layers. How best to deal with grounding. Similar to building a house, it’s essential to create a ...

In today’s high-speed digital designs, signal-integrity issues such as reflections, excessive losses, and crosstalk can degrade system performance. There are techniques through the use of time-domain ...

The growing complexity of printed circuit boards and multi-board products has rendered traditional design analysis and verification techniques obsolete. Manual reviews are no longer up to the task.

Designing circuit boards for high speed applications requires special considerations. This you already know, but what exactly do you need to do differently from common board layout? Building on where ...

Bert Simonovich has spent over five decades in electronics, starting with T1 line repeaters and backplanes in the telecom industry. Little did he know that his early work would lead him to become a ...

Electrical verification and sign-off of a printed circuit board (PCB) is a challenging, tedious, and manual process. If time permits, this visual inspection to catch errors that might cause costly ...

While in the market for a memory upgrade recently, I was surprised by the availability of commercial DDR memories. You can get 8GB of DDR3 memory, transferring 17GB/s, relatively inexpensively. The ...

AI tools compress PCB design timelines from months to hours, enabling faster iteration cycles and letting engineers focus on innovation.