{"id":936,"date":"2018-03-05T12:26:59","date_gmt":"2018-03-05T19:26:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.mentor.com\/xpedition\/?p=936"},"modified":"2026-03-27T09:30:02","modified_gmt":"2026-03-27T13:30:02","slug":"pcb-tech-talk-podcast-7-habits-of-highly-efficient-pcb-designers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.sw.siemens.com\/electronic-systems-design\/2018\/03\/05\/pcb-tech-talk-podcast-7-habits-of-highly-efficient-pcb-designers\/","title":{"rendered":"PCB Tech Talk Podcast: 7 Habits of Highly Efficient PCB Designers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/s3.amazonaws.com\/s3-blogs.mentor.com\/jimmartens\/files\/2015\/09\/PCB_Tech_Talk_3.png\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-4546 noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-4546 alignleft\" src=\"https:\/\/s3.amazonaws.com\/s3-blogs.mentor.com\/jimmartens\/files\/2015\/09\/PCB_Tech_Talk_3-520x520.png\" alt=\"PCB Tech Talk podcast\" width=\"128\" height=\"128\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Designing a PCB is similar to a complex puzzle, except there\u2019s no picture on the box to follow. Every step taken must be done purposefully, and requires extensive knowledge of electronic design and industry best practices.<\/p>\n<p>In this episode, John talks about seven shared habits that PCB Designers exhibit when they study, prepare, visualize, strategize, and complete PCB Designs.<\/p>\n<p><strong>For more information on this topic: <\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Whitepaper:<\/strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mentor.com\/pcb\/resources\/overview\/7-habits-of-highly-efficient-pcb-designers-6e8382b5-29e7-43bd-9339-68aa92dee875?clp=1&amp;cmpid=9049\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">7 Habits of Highly Efficient PCB Designers<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Have questions or topics of interest? Interested in being a guest on the show? Contact us at <a href=\"mailto:pcb_techtalk@mentor.com\">pcb_techtalk@mentor.com<\/a>. <a href=\"https:\/\/itunes.apple.com\/us\/podcast\/pcb-tech-talk\/id1038473191?mt=2\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Subscribe today<\/a> so you don\u2019t miss any future episodes!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Designing a PCB is similar to a complex puzzle, except there\u2019s no picture on the box to follow. Every step&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":32176,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"spanish_translation":"","french_translation":"","german_translation":"","italian_translation":"","polish_translation":"","japanese_translation":"","chinese_translation":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"industry":[],"product":[],"coauthors":[],"class_list":["post-936","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sw.siemens.com\/electronic-systems-design\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/936","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sw.siemens.com\/electronic-systems-design\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sw.siemens.com\/electronic-systems-design\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sw.siemens.com\/electronic-systems-design\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/32176"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sw.siemens.com\/electronic-systems-design\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=936"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sw.siemens.com\/electronic-systems-design\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/936\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10651,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sw.siemens.com\/electronic-systems-design\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/936\/revisions\/10651"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sw.siemens.com\/electronic-systems-design\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=936"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sw.siemens.com\/electronic-systems-design\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=936"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sw.siemens.com\/electronic-systems-design\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=936"},{"taxonomy":"industry","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sw.siemens.com\/electronic-systems-design\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/industry?post=936"},{"taxonomy":"product","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sw.siemens.com\/electronic-systems-design\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/product?post=936"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sw.siemens.com\/electronic-systems-design\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=936"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}