Tag: pcb

Webinar: Solve EM Fields and Forces in PCBs for Consumer Electronics

Webinar: Solve EM Fields and Forces in PCBs for Consumer Electronics
by Admin on 04-12-2024 at 2:34 pm

This webinar will demonstrate how Ansys tools can improve PCB designs for higher performance and reliability. Ansys Maxwell simulates low-frequency (LF) EM fields to identify potential EMI/EMC issues for shielding and grounding purposes. Engineers can also predict electric currents distributed throughout the PCB power

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Webinar: Accurate PCB Reliability Predictions for Thermal Cycling

Webinar: Accurate PCB Reliability Predictions for Thermal Cycling
by Admin on 04-12-2024 at 2:17 pm

Electronics that are exposed to fluctuating temperatures undergo a process known as thermal cycling. These fluctuations in temperature cause the PCB and it’s components to expand and contract with the rise and fall of temperature. The various materials used electronics will expand and contract at different rates due to a mismatch… Read More

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Using PCB Automation for an AI and Machine Vision Product

Using PCB Automation for an AI and Machine Vision Product
by Daniel Payne on 12-12-2023 at 10:00 am
Categories: EDA, Siemens EDA

machine vision testing

I knew that HDMI was a popular standard used to connect consumer products like a monitor to a laptop, but most professional video and broadcast systems use the SDI (Serial Digital Interface) connector standard. Pleora Technologies, founded in 2000, currently serves the machine vision and manufacturing markets, including those… Read More

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A Complete Guidebook for PCB Design Automation

A Complete Guidebook for PCB Design Automation
by Kalar Rajendiran on 11-29-2023 at 8:00 am
Categories: EDA, Siemens EDA

Constraint Management

Printed Circuit Boards (PCBs) are the foundation of modern electronics, and designing them efficiently is complex. Design automation and advanced PCB routing have transformed the process, making it faster and more reliable. Design automation streamlines tasks, reduces errors, and ensures consistency. Advanced PCB routing… Read More

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AI Assists PCB Designers

AI Assists PCB Designers
by Daniel Payne on 04-17-2023 at 6:00 am
Categories: AI, Cadence, EDA

PCB steps min

Generative AI is all the rage with systems like ChatGPT, Google Bard and DALL-E being introduced with great fanfare in the past year. The EDA industry has also been keen to adopt the trends of using AI techniques to assist IC engineers across many disciplines. Saugat Sen, Product Marketing at Cadence did a video call with me to explain… Read More

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Siemens Aspires to AI in PCB Design

Siemens Aspires to AI in PCB Design
by Bernard Murphy on 12-28-2022 at 6:00 am
Categories: AI, EDA, Siemens EDA

PCB min

This. AI in PCB design is not a new idea. Other PCB software companies also make that claim. But when a mainstream systems technology company like Siemens talks about the subject, that is noteworthy. They already have an adaptive user interface (UI) for their mechanical modeling suite and to assist in low-code development for application… Read More

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Why Use PADS Professional Premium for Electronic Design

Why Use PADS Professional Premium for Electronic Design
by Daniel Payne on 11-01-2022 at 6:00 am
Categories: EDA, Siemens EDA

PADS Designer min

My IC design career started just a few years before PADS got started in 1985 with a DOS-based tool for PCB design. A lot has changed since then, as PADS was acquired by Mentor Graphics in 2001, and continued to grow under Siemens EDA, now with four versions to choose from, where the top version is called PADS Professional Premium:

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Using a GPU to Speed Up PCB Layout Editing

Using a GPU to Speed Up PCB Layout Editing
by Daniel Payne on 03-01-2022 at 10:00 am
Categories: Cadence, EDA
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3D PCB min

I can remember back in the 1980s how Apollo workstations were quite popular, because they accelerated the graphics display time for EDA tools much better than competitive hardware. Fast forward to 2022 and we have the same promise of speeding up EDA tools like PCB layout editing by using a GPU. At the 58th DAC there was a session called,… Read More

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It’s The Small Stuff That Gets You …

It’s The Small Stuff That Gets You …
by Mike Gianfagna on 02-10-2020 at 6:00 am
Categories: EDA, Siemens EDA

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The last session I attended at DesignCon 2020 wasn’t a session at all. Rather it was an interactive discussion with Todd Westerhoff, product manager for electronic board systems at Mentor Graphics. Todd made some observations about the way high-performance PCBs are designed today and perhaps the way they should be designed. … Read More