PCB Design Rules & Constraints

Design Rules to Fanout a Large BGA

Design Rules for Large BGA Fanout I have known people during my career who insisted on hand-routing every PCB design that they worked on. They would say that their manual routing performed better, looked better, and was just better in general. I’m not going to argue one way or the other on that, but I will say that there is one thing that can not be argued with; all of that manual routing took them a much longer time to complete than if they had used automated routers. With today Read Article

1:37 Ben Jordan on Altium Designer's Design Rules Engine Watch Video

Using Rules-Driven Design to Control a High-Frequency Board

Using Rules-Driven Design to Control a High-Frequency Board There was a time where high-frequency design belonged to realm of specialized engineers who lived in a world all of their own. For those of us designing printed circuit boards we rarely ventured into this realm, and when we did we were very happy to turn over that portion of the design to those engineers. They would perform calculations based on formulas that seemed to originate from the mystic arts, and then direct us to how the circuit should Read Article

1:24 John Watson on Design Rules as Preliminary Requirements Watch Video

Design Rules and Advanced Constraints - AltiumLive University

Design Rules and Advanced Constraints - AltiumLive University Read Article

1:42:18 Design Rules and Advanced Constraints Watch Video

1:1:30 Understanding Rules And Constraints This webinar will discuss how Altium Designer supports your design process with hierarchical rules and constraints. Knowing how to define Watch Video

Constraint Driven Design versus Rules Driven Design in a Unified Environment

Constraint Driven Design versus Rules Driven Design in a Unified Environment Wouldn’t it be great if more rules in life were checked automatically? I love to cook Italian food, but it gets tiring going back and forth between a cookbook and a pot of tomato sauce. The only automatic rules checking mechanism in the kitchen is your oven timer. Fortunately for PCB designers, high-quality software packages include constraint and rules checking features that can check your layout and schematic automatically. The ability to set Read Article

Customize designs with Consistent and Flexible Custom Rules and Queries

Customize designs with Consistent and Flexible Custom Rules and Queries In the early stages of a circuit design, I frequently consider mechanical dimensions along with circuit requirements. Knowing dimensions of large components helps me visualize where they will fit with respect to overall three-dimensional device enclosure and the board’s location within the space. During the thought experiment for fit, I begin making notes about tolerances I’ll push as a tradeoff between electrical functionality and mechanical Read Article

Creepage and Clearance Design Rules Require More Than Integrated Flow

Creepage and Clearance Design Rules Require More Than Integrated Flow Occasionally, I get to drive through the Pacific Northwest on a clear day. Unencumbered by rain clouds, the mountain ranges are visible. So visible that I feel I could reach out and touch them. If I could fly the line of sight, I could be at the top of any mountain quickly. Since I can’t fly, driving my car along a twisting mountain highway would get me there on a longer route. So it is with PCB creepage and clearance design rules on a printed Read Article

1:55 Schematic Design Rules Watch Video

Manage Embedded Software through Design Rules for a No-Line PCB Design

Manage Embedded Software through Software Architecture and Design Rules for a No-Line PCB Design Recently, Amazon opened its first grocery market where one of its main points was its refusal of lines. Of course, its first-day publicity was a line of people outside waiting to try it out. I’m sure that as the newness diminishes it will be able to fulfill its promise of no lines; however, for now, I am mostly hoping that the store still had some rules in place in-case there was a line. After all, if one of your basic premises is to avoid lines Read Article

How to Set Up Design Rules in CircuitStudio

How to Set Up Design Rules in CircuitStudio Read Article

3:05 Setting Design Rules And Limits - How-To Watch Video

32 PCB Design Rules Visualization - Features Watch Video

3:48 Creating Design Rules - EvalQuest - How-To Watch Video

45:44 Tech Briefing Design Rules V2 - DE Watch Video