CAMBRIDGE, UK — Zuken launched version 12 of its PCB layout, placement and routing solution CR-5000 Board Designer. The new version has been developed with enhanced editing functionality, ...

PCB routing methods continue to evolve, and flexible routing techniques can reduce wire length and free up space on a PCB. Traditional PCB routing is limited by fixation of coordinates of wires and by ...

A printed circuit board turns separate parts into a stable system that powers up, talks to peripherals, and survives real ...

The latest revision of Zuken's CR-5000 PCB and packaging design suite includes a number of enhancements, most notably to symmetry in trunk routing and modeling. Revision 9.0 of the CR-5000 suite also ...

Sketch routing reduces layout complexity by automating the routing and breakout intent that the PCB designer defines. It combines the power of automation with the skill and control of the designer to ...

Do you do PCB design for a living? Has KiCad been just a tiny bit insufficient for your lightning-fast board routing demands? We’ve just been graced with the KiCad 9 release (blog post, there ...

The Ball Grid Array, or BGA package is no longer the exclusive preserve of large, complex chips on computer motherboards: today even simple microcontrollers are available with those little solder ...

Charles Pfeil is an Engineering Director in the Systems Design Division at Mentor Graphics. My first experience with computerized printed-circuit-board (PCB) design was in 1978 when I acquired two ...

This article is the second part of the two part article covering Topology Planning and Topology Routing. The first part covered a Design Engineer capturing Intellectual Property (IP) for a unique ...

The global circulation of water is a little like the distribution of power on the board. There is a source and an endpoint, but it’s a closed system. Tributaries may diverge or converge to provide ...