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Everything You Need to Know About Stitching Vias
Stitching vias are more than just periodic via arrays, they provide groups of net connections across layers that are needed in power, RF, high-speed, and more.
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What is the JESD204C Standard for ADCs/DACs?
JESD204C provides a standardized interface for RF ADCs with high sample rate, which are now appearing more in commercial space applications.
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Stepped Impedance Transformer for Complex Loads
This article will show how a complex load can be converted to a real load with an impedance transformer for any line length and impedance.
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How to Design an RF Trace Taper for Impedance Matching
Transmission line taper structures can provide superior impedance matching between two transmission lines with approximately real impedance.
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Quarter-Wave Transformer Design For Real and Reactive Loads
All quarter-wavelength transformers can be used for real loads, but some can be used for reactive loads with an additional transmission line section.
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USB High Speed (ULPI) Routing
Learn what ULPI is for USB High Speed interfaces, as well as best practices for routing this bus on a PCB.
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Which BGA Pad and Fanout Strategy is Right for Your PCB?
Your BGA fanout strategy depends on the BGA pad size and your pin density. Learn how to pair the right BGA pad size with PCB trace width in this article.
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Plated Through-Hole Vias in mmWave PCBs
Plated through-hole vias in mmWave PCBs can ruin signal integrity in your RF interconnects if not implemented properly. Learn how to size and place stitching vias in this article.
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Automated PCB Routing With the Situs Topological Autorouter
This page looks at the Situs Topological Autorouter. This part of the PCB Editor uses topological mapping to define the PCB routing path and convert this to a high-quality route.
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What Skills Are Needed to be a PCB Layout Designer?
To readers who have been working in the PCB industry for most of your career, you have probably seen a very diverse group of professionals with varied skill sets and backgrounds. My own background is odd, having come into the profession from optics and lasers, and then focusing on analog and RF electronics. Other designers might get started as engineers or as technicians, and some designers learn how to create beautiful PCB layouts in university
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How Non-functional Pads Affect Your PCB Design
Non-functional pads are sometimes framed as an all-or-nothing debate, and the debates about reliability and effects on signal integrity abound. Should you keep them on your vias, or should you remove them from all vias? Like any design decision there are tradeoffs to balance, and typically one aspect of a design will take precedence over all others. Because there is no generalized rule about the use of non-functional pads, designers should
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How to Select Copper Foil for High-Frequency PCB Design
Learn how to choose the right kind of copper foil for your high frequency PCB stackup. The same ideas apply to selection of copper for high-speed PCBs.
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Why Most Via Impedance Calculators Are Inaccurate
Via impedance calculators are only useful in the low frequency range, where impedance control is typically not needed.
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Overview of the PCIe 6.0 Standard
In this article, we give an overview of changes in the PCIe 6.0 standard as it has been currently published by PCI-SIG.
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SPI vs. I2C: How to Choose the Best Protocol for Your Memory Chips
Which protocol is best for accessing memory chips? The differences between SPI vs. I2C for this application will be examined in this article.
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Is There an SPI Trace Impedance Requirement?
There is no SPI trace impedance requirement or termination requirement. If this sounds surprising, read this article to see why.
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The Skin Effect, Current Density, and the Electromagnetic Field
Do you know how the skin effect alters the electric and magnetic field around a transmission line? We’ll address an important misconception in this article.
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