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BoardSurfers - Guest Roll: Anatomy of a Good Testcase
Rik Lee, the author of today's post, is a PCB Designer with more than 35 years experience in the PCB industry, 25+ of those with the Cadence® Allegro® tools. Currently working with the Samtec, he has...
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BoardSurfers: Avoid Iterations with Your Manufacturing Partner – Detect and...
Some things are rare, good or bad, but they do happen from time to time. And, some happen so regularly, we often take them for granted if good or learn to live with them if bad. But should we? For...
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DATA Pulse: In Search of the Perfect Environment—Configuring Allegro EDM
Ah, the office temperature – that eternal debate. As in many offices, ours has some people who feel that they're in the Sahara Desert, others who bundle up like they're in Antarctica, a few who just...
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BoardSurfers: Designing a Rigid-flex Board using PCB Editor
Whether you are designing the latest pace-maker or a LED strip, you have definitely pondered awhile about rigid PCBs and flex PCBs. You might have gone through a pile of literature, called up friends...
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BoardSurfers: Capturing Design Intent for Automatic Routing in PCB Editor
Imagine you are designing a complex board with thousands of interconnects and all the usual complexities inherent in a dense design that is also highly constrained. Well, it's easy, the 'imagine' part;...
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BoardSurfers - Aerials and Bails: How to Rename Reference Designators Using...
Components on a board are often placed per their functional group and hence their reference designators are all jumbled up. It is a common practice to rename reference designators before sending out...
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BoardSurfers: Five Ways to View Your Design in 3D Canvas
Five simple yet effective ways to increase efficiency by selecting the right objects you want to model, say, all the pins or a subset of the pins in a design.(read more)
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DATA Pulse: Playing Favorites with Parts—Influencing Design Part Selection...
Life is full of decisions - what college major to opt for, which career path to follow, whether to move cities for a job or stay put, whether to switch career paths midstream for a more fulfilling...
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BoardSurfers: PCB Electronics - Six Things to Do Before You Actually Place...
It's a PCB you are designing. Where do you start? What can you do to make your process more productive and efficient? Are you feeling at lost? Worry not. We will talk about the six things you do before...
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BoardSurfers: PCB Design Technique for Designing a Small RF Section in a...
Are you designing a 5G or radar application, or for that matter any application, that requires RF components? Are cost, size-reduction, and performance improvement major concerns for you? Most probably...
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BoardSurfers - Guest Roll: Anatomy of a Good Testcase
Rik Lee, the author of today's post, is a PCB Designer with more than 35 years experience in the PCB industry, 25+ of those with the Cadence® Allegro® tools. Currently working with Samtec, he has...
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BoardSurfers: PCB Design Technique for Designing a Small RF Section in a...
Are you designing a 5G or radar application, or for that matter any application, that requires RF components? Are cost, size-reduction, and performance improvement major concerns for you? Most probably...
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BoardSurfers: PCB Electronics - Component Placement - Get Set and Go!
How do you place components on a PCB design? Manually? Or quickly using automation? Is there a way to rotate or mirror components while placing them? Is there a way to determine the congested areas or...
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BoardSurfers: PCB Electronics - Electrical Constraints
Whether it's NASA's space missions or a school camping trip; building a cutting-edge, reusable rocket system or baking a simple lemon tart - planning is a must to avoid disasters, or at least to get a...
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DATA Pulse: Track Your Components—Efficient Library and Design Data Management
Ever noticed how some objects always mysteriously disappear? It's like they have their own legs. Or maybe, secretly, they thirst for adventure and go wandering off. Socks for example. Why does one twin...
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DATA Pulse: In Search of the Perfect Environment—Configuring Allegro EDM
Ah, the office temperature – that eternal debate. As in many offices, ours has some people who feel that they're in the Sahara Desert, others who bundle up like they're in Antarctica, a few who just...
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DATA Pulse: Track Your Components—Efficient Library and Design Data Management
Ever noticed how some objects always mysteriously disappear? It's like they have their own legs. Or maybe, secretly, they thirst for adventure and go wandering off. Socks for example. Why does one twin...
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BoardSurfers: PCB Electronics - Defining and Applying Physical and Spacing...
If you get frequent calls from your fab houses or your customers regarding your product, or if your schematic, layout, and packaging engineers spend a lot of time exchanging notes about their...
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BoardSurfers - Guest Roll: Anatomy of a Good Testcase
Rik Lee, the author of today's post, is a PCB Designer with more than 35 years experience in the PCB industry, 25+ of those with the Cadence® Allegro® tools. Currently working with Samtec, he has...
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BoardSurfers: Look Before You Leap - Verifying Footprints in the Design...
View the footprints of symbols during design entry in Capture: verify the footprint and land pattern dimension before exporting your design to a board layout tool, such as PCB Editor,(read more)
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