PCB design guidelines are created as benchmarks for circuit design engineers to meet the industry standards. Following these guidelines will ensure better manufacturability and robust product ...

The proliferation of electromagnetic compatibility (EMC) directives during the 1990s became the latest in a long series of issues to upset the balance between logical and physical PCB design. As ...

Editor's note: This article addresses the need for designers of printed circuit boards for nextgen ICs to be savvy about package-on-package technology. New ways of working with sub-assembly printed ...

Check out more coverage of DesignCon 2023. This article is also part of TechXchange: PCB Tools and Technology. In electronic systems, electrical signals tend to travel through a wide range of ...

DesignCon concluded last week in Santa Clara, with vendors having exhibited a variety of design, simulation, test, and measurement tools. A key focus was ensuring signal integrity on high-speed serial ...

While in the market for a memory upgrade recently, I was surprised by the availability of commercial DDR memories. You can get 8GB of DDR3 memory, transferring 17GB/s, relatively inexpensively. The ...

Designing circuit boards for high speed applications requires special considerations. This you already know, but what exactly do you need to do differently from common board layout? Building on where ...

Bert Simonovich has spent over five decades in electronics, starting with T1 line repeaters and backplanes in the telecom industry. Little did he know that his early work would lead him to become a ...

Signal integrity (SI) is at the forefront of SoC and system designers’ thinking as they plan for upcoming high-speed GDDR6 DRAM and PHY implementations for automotive and advanced driver assistance ...