With an increasing emphasis on time-to-market, space-industry OEMs need better communication between EDA suppliers and component vendors to ensure schematic symbols, footprints, and 3D models are ...

Whether you used the dog-bone or via-in-pad layout styles, once you’ve managed to bring all signals to the edge of your BGA (a process called “escape routing”) the rest of your PCB design ...

A good layout design optimizes supply efficiency, alleviates thermal stress, and most importantly, minimizes the noise and interactions among traces and components. To achieve these, it is important ...

Figure 1 shows the PCB layout for two different I/O selections from the same SoC. In circuit design A, a set of pins is configured for a UART, an SD/MMC card, GPIO, and motor control.

This article presents a practical approach to the layout design of mixed-signal boards, discussing component placement, board layering, and ground-plane considerations.

About the Author John Burkhert Jr is a career PCB Designer experienced in Military, Telecom, Consumer Hardware and lately, the Automotive industry. Originally, an RF specialist — compelled to flip the ...

Generally, the PCB layout engineer will know where the package's external pins or pads are located, but will have little idea of the design of the ICs inside. This could turn out to be a hindrance to ...

Moore’s law, applied to data rates, has pushed PCB circuits so fast that the layout becomes part of the circuit. In designs such as DDR3 and PCIe, the fastest memory and high-speed serial performance.