Jack of all trades, master of none, as the saying goes, and that’s especially true for PCB prototyping tools. Sure, it’s possible to use a CNC router to mill out a PCB, and ditto for a … ...

Preferring to spend hours typing code instead of graphically pushing traces around in a PCB layout tool, [James Bowman] over at ExCamera Labs has developed CuFlow, a method for routing PCBs in Python.

2. This example of river routing, a board designed by ZTE Corp. from the 2010 Mentor Graphics Technology Leadership Awards, is typical of many of todayâ s designs.

According to manufacturer JOT Automation, its router is one of the smallest and most cost-effective inline routing solutions for automated depaneling of PCBs used in smart phones, tablet computers, ...

Mentor router is ‘gaming for PCB design’ Mentor Graphics has released an automated routing version of its XtremePCB design tool that can be distributed over up to 15 CPUs to cut design cycle times.

It is important to look at the routing of critical nets in relation to the I/O lines because noise is easily coupled on or off the board through these I/O lines leaving or entering the board (see ...

When PCB layout tools were first introduced, they weren’t much better for routing traces than using an etch-a-sketch. Today, constraint-driven automation approaches have reduced the time required to ...

With so much pressure on time-to-market, should you manually route or can you trust automated methods? Powerful, semi-automatic techniques such as sketch and hug routing allow many nets to be laid ...

Designed to support high-power density, state-of-the-art DFN3.3x3.3 Source-Down packaging features center gate technology for ...