USB PCB Routing Tips for Peak Reliability and Performance
USB routing tips will consider many traditional routing methods with a tighter focus on power supply and EMI in your USB.
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Thermal Vias for Circuit Board Heat Management: Techniques and Tips
Examine the use of thermal via arrays for dissipating heat and improving circuit performance.
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Building and Running a Simulation of a Circuit Design
Whether working through high speed designs or high-power systems, simulation can be done to understand the behavior of an electronic circuit due to accurate models.
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CPLD vs. FPGA: Which Do You Need For Your Digital System?
With the popularity of NAND and NOR gates, it can be easy to overlook the capabilities of CPLD vs FPGA when looking to satisfy the needs of your digital system.
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Tips for Reducing PCB Handling Issues
PCB handling, when performed improperly, can result in damaged boards upon delivery.
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Effective Integrated Circuit Simulation Within Multi-board PCB Systems
Performing integrated circuit simulation not only verifies your circuit’s functionality, but also aids in the manufacturing of your board or multi-board system.
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How Current Density In PCB Trace Can Affect Functionality
Current density PCB traces can accumulate can affect the overall health of your design as well as subject your device to errors like overcooking and shortages.
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Incorporating SPICE Initial Conditions and Interpreting the Results
Any dynamic system includes initial conditions. In SPICE, initial conditions produce specific behavior that you can examine with the right simulation package.
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High Power PCBs and Thermal Conductivity: Keeping Your Boards on Ice
High power PCB thermal conductivity is important for determining the temperature of your board. Here’s how you can keep temperatures low.
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Five Tell-Tale Signs of a Bad Power Distribution Network
A power distribution network has a single goal: to make sure that the right current and voltage is delivered to...
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Your Thermal Design Guide for High Power PCBs
High temperatures can ruin any PCB. This thermal design guide for PCB design will give you some tips to beat the heat.
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Trust the Best PCB Design Guidelines to Lead You to Success
PCB design guidelines should not be feared and instead be looked at as valuable tools that will help us navigate our way through the design process.
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Basic PCB Layout Design Steps to Get You Started
The best preparation is to know the basic steps of the job before you get started. Here are some PCB layout design steps that will help your preparation.
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Utilizing a Checklist for PCB Design Finalization
Your design goes through many hoops to become a printed circuit board. Don’t let up your rigor before your PCB design finalization is finished.
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PCB Layout Tips for Circuit Board Design Success
Avoid the problems and frustrations that can happen when you are not prepared by following these PCB layout tips in your next PCB design.
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What Is Bare Board Testing?
There’s a point in manufacturing where you’ve got a decision to make. Do you start assembling your bare PCB or electrically test its connectivity for opens and shorts?
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Reduce Time-to-Market for Your System-level Designs Using PSpice Systems Option
When you move from prototyping to real production, you need to fine tune again because ideal parts cannot emulate the realities of delays and non-linearities. This costs money and eats into../
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Early Stage Design Considerations of Starting a PCB Project from Scratch
There’s nothing quite like the smell of hot solder on a Sunday afternoon, tinkering in your basement as you bring a new electronic concept to life. PCBs are the foundation of modern electronics.
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Automotive System Trends for Analog IC Design
Automotive trends in electrification, autonomous driving, e-mobility and connectivity are shaping today’s analog design requirementts.
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