I’ve been presenting at a bunch of seminars throughout the world over the past few months. One of the presentations…
PADS – deservedly so – has the reputation of a powerful, easy to use tool. The menus and dialog boxes…
For SERDES channel designs, board/system designers are told to remove stubs and non-functional pads (NFP) of vias on channels to…
Designers dealing with SERDES channels pay more and more attention to signal via effects. Many literatures and guidelines talk…
It’s easy to output a file from PADS Layout for use during manufacturing by the pick and place machines. Customers…
Well, of course you do – most engineers are pretty good people. Actually, as much as I’d like to brag…
Impedance is an important concept in many different realms of engineering. We often see it in our everyday life, especially…
In my previous blog, I talked about how a printed circuit board is nothing more than a path for signals…
What? Isn’t that backwards? Technically, yes. The board is merely a pathway through which ICs talk to each other, and…
