About Author

Charles Pfeil

Charles was in the PCB industry over 50 years as a designer, owner of a service bureau, and worked in marketing and/or engineering management at Racal-Redac, ASI, Cadence, PADS, and VeriBest (which was acquired by Mentor Graphics in 1999) and Altium.

Prior to Altium, he was an Engineering Director at Mentor Graphics, focused on advanced product development. Charles was the original product architect for Expedition PCB, and an inventor of Team PCB, XtremePCB, XtremeAR and the Sketch Router. He also wrote a design book titled, "BGA Breakouts and Routing".

Inducted into the PCB Design Hall of Fame in May of 2013, by the UP Media Group for his contributions to PCB design software, Charles is widely regarded as an industry guru. Now officially retired, Charles spends his time creating beautiful photography.

Recent Articles

How to Improve Your Routing Techniques With the routing protocol being one of the most time-consuming board layout tasks, designers need as many tools as possible for today’s complex design requirements. But with board layouts incorporating broad support of component, wifi signal and fabrication technologies in increasingly smaller components enclosure sizes that call for a specific router bit, how can we ever automate this time-consuming process? Read on to get a look into how you Read Article

Time-Saving Technologies for Your PCB Routing Workflow Whether you’re new to electronics design or have thirty years under your belt, most engineers agree: interactive routing is the most challenging and tedious task in the PCB design process. Experienced designers enjoy the challenge, applying their creative puzzle-solving talents to win the many battles and ultimately the war. Designers who are new to the task and those who would rather focus on other aspects of design wind up struggling in Read Article