Meanwhile, Protel, now named Altium, purchased Accel Technologies to offer customers an upgrade path from its traditional shrink-wrap tools to Accel's more-elaborate, lower-mainstream pcb tools.

In correlation to the evolution of PCB tools and their user base, the PCB market is transforming. In the last several months, the collective sales revenue of PCB tool vendors has swelled prosperously.

Several tools now combine MCAD and ECAD in one simulation platform to facilitate analysis of ever-more-complex boards, as well as reduce overhead and potential errors.

Renesas announced that it has standardized development of all printed-circuit board (PCB) design on the Altium 365 cloud-based platform from Altium.

The author gives his take on how EAGLE and DipTrace design tools fare when developing a 3D preview of a printed-circuit-board project.

Protel Autotrax is a PCB design tool first released for DOS in the mid-80s. Consider this a look at the history of PCB design software. I’m not recommending anyone actually use Protel Autotra… ...

RS, a global product and service solutions provider for industrial customers, released a new version of DesignSpark PCB as part of its commitment to its 1.4-million-member community to continually ...

Online PCB design tools can help streamline your design process and make collaboration easier. Printed circuit board (PCB) design is a complex endeavor, ...

In the open-source world, there are two main choices for PCB design: KiCad and gEDA. But if you’re tired of the boring Hershey fonts telling you which resistor is which, or if you need to comply ...

Dec. 2, 2003--Mentor Graphics Corporation (Nasdaq:MENT), the market leader in printed circuit board (PCB) design software, today ...