Semiconductor Engineering

Automating Traditional PCB Layout Verification With Electrically Based Design Rule Checks

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 ...
Electronic Design

Basic Guidelines for Mixed-Signal PCB Layout Design

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 ...
EDN

Moving to open-source PCB design

Electronic design trends include the use of open-source hardware designs and the open-source schematic and PCB layouts that accompany them. This growing trend is explained by the ease with which ...
Business Wire

Quilter Secures $25M Series B to Eliminate Manual PCB Design with Physics-Driven AI

LOS ANGELES--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Quilter, the first and only company to publicly demonstrate fully autonomous PCB layout through physics-driven AI, today announced $25 million in Series B funding led by ...
EDN

DC/DC converter PCB layout, Part 1

Fundamental to careful system design of any DC/DC power converter is a well-planned and carefully executed printed circuit board (PCB) layout. An optimized layout leads to better performance, lower ...
Semiconductor Engineering

AI PCB Design: How Generative AI Takes Us From Constraints To Possibilities

Generative artificial intelligence (AI) represents the next great step forward in PCB design. This is, of course, what you might expect me to say. 2023 has been a year dominated by the rise of ...
Electronic Design

Motor-Driver PCB Layout Guidelines (Part 1)

Printed-circuit-board (PCB) substrate material, like FR-4 glass epoxy, is a poor conductor of heat. Conversely, copper is an excellent conductor of heat. So, more copper area on a PCB is ideal from a ...