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How to Improve Your Routing Techniques

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

To Autoroute or Not to Autoroute-A History of Failed Design Automation

Autorouting, or No Autorouting? A History of Failed Design Automation Learn about the complete history of EDA design automation and the evolution of PCB autorouting technology from the 1980s to today. Welcome to the world of electronics. It’s 2016, and we’re now seeing more technological sophistication than in any other period in human history. Just this year alone autonomous vehicles have began their introduction into the public sphere, rockets are being re-landed from space for reuse with finely tuned precision Read Article

How to Simplify Your Routing with Pin Swapping

How to Simplify Your Routing with Pin Swapping Optimal component placement goes a long way towards minimizing crossover connection lines. However, crossovers can never be completely avoided. Learn how you can simplify your routing process and avoid wasting time with crossover connections. Optimal component placement goes a long way towards minimizing crossover connection lines. However, crossovers can never be completely avoided. A large number of crossover connections make routing a PCB Read Article

How to Successfully Design for Testing or DFT

DFT in PCBs: Design for Testing The overall cost to produce a completed printed circuit board can be broken down into several basic categories: the cost of manufacturing the blank PCB layout, the cost of components, the assembly costs, and the cost of testing. That last one, the cost of the PCB test, can comprise as much as 25% to 30% of the total cost of producing the entire product. Best practices for Printed Circuit Board DFT is key. By designing a product to have the Read Article

Time-Saving Technologies for Your PCB Routing Workflow

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

Simplify Your BGA Routing Using Neck-Down Trace Width

Using Safe Neck Down Trace Width Simplification for BGA Routing How many times have you attempted to route into your BGA (ball grid array) only to be prevented by clearance and trace width constraints? It's possible to math out thinner traces, but computers are particularly good at this kind of work while maintaining a safe current carrying capacity. Learn how to effectively route into your BGA without interrupting the routing process to adjust rules or width size with the neck down features in Altium Read Article

pcb layout guidelines

Top 5 PCB Design Rules You Need to Know We've compiled some of the essential PCB layout guidelines every designer should know to ensure your board will work as intended. Written by a leading industry expert. Read Article

ActiveRoute for Altium Designer

ActiveRoute for Altium Designer Learn how to significantly improve the efficiency of your PCB routing process with guided routing technology in Altium Designer. To learn more about this topic please see the full solution - Enhance Your Routing Efficiency with ActiveRoute - at Altium.com. Read Article

Simplify Routing With Pin, Part, And Diff-Pair Swapping

Simplify Routing With Pin, Part, And Diff-Pair Swapping When placing parts for a PCB design, the placement often leads to connections that will cross over each other. Although vias to other layers or slightly longer trace routing can be used to address a small number of crossover connections, a large number of crossovers, like those in the figure below, can make routing extremely difficult and time consuming. For more complex routing with larger numbers of crossovers, PCB designers typically employ Read Article

The Breadth and Depth of Your PCB Design Workflow

The Breadth and Depth of Your PCB Design Workflow The routing process remains the most time-consuming layout task, Altium Designer interactive routing technology makes design dense board layouts much easier. Modern printed circuit boards must address a broad set of technology challenges. PCB design software needs to include tools that help design engineers stay productive while ensuring new designs are fully manufacturable. Designers that create advanced technology rely on interactive routing Read Article

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