It’s certainly not the first PCB router we’ve seen, but it may be one of the nicer ones. If you make a PCB this way, you might like to give it professional-looking solder mask with a laser.

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.

Combining the knowledge of an engineer, the skill of a printed circuit board (PCB) designer and the power of an autorouter, Wilsonville, Ore.-based Mentor Graphics Corp. has taken the wraps off of a ...

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, ...

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 ...

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.

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 ...

Save guides, add subjects and pick up where you left off with your BBC account. CNC machining mills away copper using a CNC router and design software chemical etching uses UV light, photo-resist ...

Nobody would have thought that a simple mechanical process would one day develop into a technology that can create micrometer-fine structures on almost any material. A journey through time. In 1975, ...