Thanks to the relatively recent rise of affordable board production services, many of the people reading Hackaday are just now learning the ropes of PCB design. For those still producing the FR4 ...

In the competitive world of electronics manufacturing, a profound truth often goes unrecognized until expensive lessons force ...

Out of curiosity, I redrew the Supercon Vectorscope badge schematics in KiCad last year. As you might suspect, going from PCB to schematic is opposite to the normal design flow of KiCad and most other ...

Polychlorinated biphenyls (PCBs) are a family of halogenated aromatic hydrocarbons with unique physical and chemical properties such as thermal stability, resistance to acids, oxidation, and ...

PCB design is a critical and complex process that involves multiple stages, from conceptualization and schematic creation to layout design and final manufacturing. Credit: adobe.stock.com As ...

There are many powerful and easy-to-use electronic design automation (EDA) software packages available for PCB designers today. Here's a closer look at some. There are many powerful and easy-to-use ...

Skills shortages in engineering have long been recognised and are impactful to many organisations in the manufacturing space.

The seminal shooter finds yet another unlikely home Not content with rendering Doom in PCB design software or playing it on ...

Acquisition integrates advanced "shift-left" Design for Test (DFT) functionality into Siemens' Xpedition and Valor portfolios ...

PCB design tools have traditionally revolved around software packages users would download and install on their own PCs or workstations. A startup company called Flux is trying to change that ...