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How to convert existing projects to make them Scrum aware in an easy way

If you want to scrum your requirements these are the first steps you should think about. I would prefer to work with user stories as your agile requirements which are planned in storypoints instead o...

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

Announcing POP Challenge 2012

What a great start to The Polarion POP Challenge! We already have 3 official and approved software apps/extensions submitted to this year's contest. http://extensions.polarion.com/polarion/extensio...

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

Electronic Systems Design

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...

By Patrick Carrier