PADS Tips and Tricks: Placement Report for Pick and Place

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…

Got integrity?

Got integrity?

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

Impedance

Impedance

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

What to analyze?

What to analyze?

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

Don’t let your board heat up your ICs

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…

Put your charts away

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…

Co-simulation gets you the real answer

Co-simulation gets you the real answer

Simulation is a way of predicting reality.  The more information we put into the simulation, the better our prediction of…

Need stitching vias?

Need stitching vias?

When trying to design SERDES signals on board, designers often receive recommendations on placing stitching vias around differential signal vias…

PADS Tips and Tricks: Pin Swapping

PADS Tips and Tricks: Pin Swapping

This tip comes from Bill Tkachuk in CSD. Do you want to do pin swapping in a PADS Logic/PADS Layout…