PCB Design that Requires MCAD/ECAD Collaboration
Without good MCAD/ECAD collaboration, your carefully created circuitry could bog down in physical design. You need tools that are designed to work together.
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Putting Wearables to Work: How Your Wearable Health Tracker Keeps You and Your Doctor Connected
With Apple’s “Wearable” category of sales setting a new record this September with growth over 50%, and FitBit seeing growth in both trackers...
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The Next Generation of Prosthetics
We may think of prosthetics as devices created to enable basic functions, such as walking or grasping an object. Regarded as a necessity, but not an asset, prosthetics of the past...
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Wearable Technology: Types of Materials Used
Wearable tech is officially the next big innovation in technology, and its popularity has skyrocketed in the past few years. It seems like every few months...
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Real-Time 3D Measurements
Get accurate measurements of a component and copper spacing in the natural and intuitive Interactive3D canvas
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What You Should Know About Organic Electronics
Organic electronics is a field of materials science centered around organic materials with desirable electronic properties (e.g. conductivity).
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Innovations in IoT-Driven Medical Sensors for Tracking Patient Vitals
IoT refers to the system of interconnected computing devices, mechanical and digital machines, or objects that have the ability to transfer data over a network...
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How Do I Know What Functionality to Put on Which Board/Component Placement Strategies for Multi-board PCB Systems
There’s only so much you can do with a single printed circuit board (PCB). We’ve seen advances in miniaturization and the steady rise..
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How is a Multi-board PCB System Assembly Different from Rigid-Flex Assembly
When people typically think of multi-board PCB design, they tend to picture racks of boards in server farms or the components of a gaming rig. But what if your typical rigid boards don’t fit...
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Rigid Flex Circuitry Applications in Medical and Medical Device Worlds
More advanced medical devices such as cochlear implants or implants for damaged retinas require that powerful processing be contained within a flexible form factor
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This is a Story About Tape-Out Day
All of the little details were squared up when the check-plots came out for "final" review. Those same preliminary files were shared with the fab and assembly units and, of course, the vendors have c
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Contour Etch Routing with OrCAD
Getting arcs equally spaced when routing a bus around a curved, flex circuit is not easy. With routing software offering a grid-based approach, this often leads to sloppy spacing and inadequate...
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Let's Get Flexible: Expert Tips for Designing Flex PCBs
Flex PCB design has many advantages. In fact, the global market for flex/rigid-flex boards more than doubled in the past 4 years alone. Along with those benefits come new design challenges that...
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