Tips & Tricks - Electronic Systems Design

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Leveraging market-ready PCB design solutions for efficient design phases – Part 1: Understanding the time-to-market advantage

June 3, 2025

What if your design team could cut development time in half while improving product quality? In today’s fast-paced electronics industry, the ability to optimize time-to-market isn’t just convenient—it’s essential for survival and success.

By David Haboud

4 MIN READ

Closing the gap: How Manufacturing-Driven Design is transforming PCB engineering

June 2, 2025

Previously on episode 24 of the Printed Circuit Podcast, host Steph Chavez brought together two seasoned experts—Max Clark, Product Strategy…

By Arlina Yang

4 MIN READ

Designing smarter, not harder: Embracing PCB design automation in PCB engineering

May 30, 2025

Previously on the premiere episode of Season 3 of the Printed Circuit Podcast, host Steph Chavez sat down with John…

By Arlina Yang

3 MIN READ

PCB material selection for PCB stackup design

Avoid overspending on stackup materials in your PCBs – 8 high speed materials to consider

May 29, 2025

PCB material discussions are often focused around stackup material selection. These tend to be framed by questions like: ‘We use material ‘x’ for our designs and really like it. What do you think of it?’ This often veils the real question which is: ‘Do you know a good alternative to it?’

By Patrick Hope

10 MIN READ

16 PCB experts to follow in 2025

May 8, 2025

Staying ahead in the fast-evolving world of PCB design means more than just following trends – it requires learning from…

By David Haboud

7 MIN READ

PCB high voltage spacing: What every engineer should know

April 29, 2025

At the heart of high-voltage PCB reliability is proper PCB high voltage spacing between conductive elements.

By Stephen V. Chavez

4 MIN READ

Beyond silos: Enabling multidomain and multidiscipline integration in electronic systems design

April 21, 2025

Engineering success depends not just on deep expertise, but on seamless integration across domains and disciplines.

By Stephen V. Chavez

4 MIN READ

Design for manufacturing output files – optimizing engineering to manufacturing efficiency

March 18, 2025

As PCB design and manufacturing become increasingly complex, the choice of design for manufacturing output files plays a crucial role in streamlining processes, reducing errors, and improving time to market.

By Stephen V. Chavez

4 MIN READ

Blind and buried vias: An HDI technology

March 13, 2025

One of the key innovations within HDI PCB design is the use of blind and buried vias, which enhance routing capabilities by freeing up additional routing resources, increasing the amount of routing channels while requiring fewer signal layers, and optimizing board space.

By Stephen V. Chavez

5 MIN READ