The Year That Was: PCB Design Blogs in 2019

It's the time to take stock of the year gone by and to plan for the year to come. The past year was a busy one for us fulfilling our resolution to be with you every week with a new post in a range of areas in PCB design. It seems you loved our posts as we can infer from the increased readership and encouraging comments. At the beginning of 2019, we had decided to focus on two main areas of PCB Design, layout/physical design and electronic data management. So, we started the weekly BoradSurfers series to focus on core PCB design topics and DATA Pulse to focus on library management, design data management, design process control, and design tool integration in a collaborative work environment. We also started two threads within BoardSurfers: Aerials and Bails for a series of posts to help you resolve problems in your design processes and PCB Electronics to get you started with PCB design.

Here are a few posts that we chose for you from the two series as well as the posts for Release 17.4-2019. These posts were especially loved by all of you based on the readership and comments they received. If you think otherwise do let us know. 

• PCB Electronics - Three Routing Challenges and Their Solutions
• Allegro 3D Canvas—Visualize the Board as You Design
• PCB Electronics - Six Things to Do Before You Actually Place Components on a PCB
• Make Menus Your Own – Customizing Menus and Toolbars with Things You Use Daily
• PCB Design Technique for Designing a Small RF Section in a Digital Board

• Track Your Components—Efficient Library and Design Data Management
• Speed Up ECAD Part Search in Allegro System Capture
• In Search of the Perfect Environment—Configuring Allegro EDM
• Track Your Components—Efficient Library and Design Data Management
• Playing Favorites with Parts—Influencing Design Part Selection with a Preferred Parts List

Release 17.4-2019 Blogs

• Cadence OrCAD and Allegro 17.4-2019 Is Now Available
• Quickly View Schematic Designs, Boards, and IC Packages for Free Using Cadence PCB Design Viewers 2019
• What's in a Name? From Allegro EDM to Pulse in 17.4-2019
• Experience the Power of OrCAD with Its Trial Version
• Search Faster and Smarter in Release 17.4-2019

Conclusion

 All in all, 2019 was a fruitful year for us in terms of the PCB Design posts. We resolve to better that in 2020 and hope to ease your tasks even more through our posts. If you have any suggestions regarding any aspect of our posts be it the topics covered or the content or any new series you want, do let us know. 

We wish you a happy new year!