Choosing the right PCB components can make or break your design, affecting performance, cost, and manufacturability. Experts recommend starting with system requirements before diving into catalogs.

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 ...

When designing a printed circuit board, there are certain rules. You should place decoupling capacitors near the power pins to each chip. Your ground planes should be one gigantic fill of copper; two ...

PCB Design Best Practices: Six things to consider when transferring a PCB schematic to layout. All the examples in this article are developed using the NI Multisim design environment, however the same ...

Fig 1. The die pad in Texas Instruments’ PowerPAD supports the die during fabrication, thus serving as a good thermal heat path to remove the heat away from the chip. Fig 2. TI’s PowerStack 3D ...

Ways to mitigate noise in SMPS. What to look for in PCB layout to reduce EMI. What are SSFD and DRSS? Electromagnetic-interference (EMI) reduction techniques for power circuit designs are segmented ...

EMA Design Automation, Cadence Design Systems Inc., and Rochester Institute of Technology are collaborating to provide college-level printed circuit board (PCB) design courses for students in RIT’s ...

Electromagnetic compatibility (EMC) and related electromagnetic interference (EMI) are two culprits system design engineers have historically kept a sharp eye on, among their myriad of other ...

High-speed circuit design is one of the most fundamental, yet challenging areas of electronics design. High-speed circuits are commonly used today, as standards like USB, HDMI, and PCIe require most ...