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Electronic Systems Design

PADS Tips and Tricks: Modeless Commands

PADS – deservedly so – has the reputation of a powerful, easy to use tool. The menus and dialog boxes...

Electronic Systems Design

When to remove via stubs and non-functional pads?

For SERDES channel designs, board/system designers are told to remove stubs and non-functional pads (NFP) of vias on channels to...

Electronic Systems Design

Process of via design and verification

Designers dealing with SERDES channels pay more and more attention to signal via effects. Many literatures and guidelines talk...

Electronic Systems Design

PADS Tips and Tricks: Placement Report for Pick and Place

It’s easy to output a file from PADS Layout for use during manufacturing by the pick and place machines. Customers...

Electronic Systems Design

Got integrity?

Well, of course you do – most engineers are pretty good people. Actually, as much as I’d like to brag...

By Patrick Carrier

Electronic Systems Design

Impedance

Impedance is an important concept in many different realms of engineering. We often see it in our everyday life, especially...

By Patrick Carrier

Electronic Systems Design

What to analyze?

In my previous blog, I talked about how a printed circuit board is nothing more than a path for signals...

By Patrick Carrier

Electronic Systems Design

Don't let your board heat up your ICs

What? Isn’t that backwards? Technically, yes. The board is merely a pathway through which ICs talk to each other, and...

By Patrick Carrier

Electronic Systems Design

Put your charts away

For over 50 years, designers have been calculating current-carrying capacity on PCBs using charts created by the Navy in 1956...

By Patrick Carrier