How best to deal with grounding. A mixed-signal printed-circuit-board (PCB) design requires basic understanding of analog and digital circuitry to minimize, if not prevent, signal interference.

Many PCB design tools include EMC rule checkers. Checks include looking at the design data geometry for instances where signal crosstalk may occur (because of parallel-routed traces), instances of ...

In this article, we outline the “Golden Rules of PCB design,” most of which have stayed consistent for 25 years. Introduction Despite increasing levels of semiconductor integration and readily ...

The Basic Design Process The ideal PCB design starts with the discovery that a PCB is needed and continues through the final production boards (Fig. 1). After determining why the PCB is needed ...

Adaptive optimization algorithms promise better results and deeper insight into why certain designs perform better than ...

About the Author John Burkhert Jr is a career PCB Designer experienced in Military, Telecom, Consumer Hardware and lately, the Automotive industry. Originally, an RF specialist — compelled to flip the ...

Three independent design processes – chip, package, and PCB – are typically required for the latest electronic products which utilize increasingly complex systems on chip (SoCs) and multiple chips in ...

3] EasyEDA Next up, we have a free online PCB design software. The best part about this is the fact that it is online. Because of this, you don’t have to download heavy applications that these ...

For a basic PCB, that is enough – but of course, it’s no fun to stop at ‘basic’, when there’s so many things you can do at hardly any cost.