PCB Design Blogs

With ECAD-MCAD Library Creator, you can easily create footprints for your parts using thousands of ready-to-use templates that are provided with the tool.

You must deal with many reports in your daily life – for your health, financial accounts, credit, your child’s academic records, and the count goes on. Ever noticed that these reports contain many details, most of which you don’t wa...

When you design a rigid-flex board, the focus is, of course, on the bend. Your design might be bend to install (stable flexion) - it will be bent only a few times while installing. Or it might be dynamic - it will be bent regularly. It's important to...

In the days of yore when life was simple, there was a world full of DRAMs (Dynamic Random Access Memory). We have come a long way from there. First came Synchronous DRAMs (SDRAMS). Isn't it neater anyway, SDRAM? More systematic and organized, in tune...

We all know the ubiquitous via. What is it after all but a way to make electrical connections in a multi-layered PCB? But if you think about it, it must have been a clever ....

Usually, people start a blog by stating something dramatic and we used to bring drama to our otherwise staid stuff on PCB design by mentioning High Speed and Signal Integrity. No more. High-speed is the norm because even if your data is not in the ra...

If you are a PCB designer and follow IPC-2581 guidelines to design a board, this soluti....

Do you dread your ECAD to PLM publishing process? If yes, worry not. We have a solution.

We will of course not venture into the finer points of the debate about mask-defined pins (SMD) and metal-defined pins (NSMD) but assume that for whatever reasons, we have mask-defined pins in our design and we want our design to be to be fabricated correctly and as....

You have placed components and routed the board. You are finally ready to send the design to a fabrication house to be manufactured. But wait, you have to perform a few tasks ...

The first series BoardSurfers is about PCB designing. It provides information on concepts, techniques, and processes that are related to Cadence PCB Design solutions with a new post published ...

The Cadence  Allegro  ECAD-MCAD Library Creator helps you easily synchronize ECAD and MCAD libraries which in turn improves the quality and accuracy ....

Do you often search for parts when creating Allegro System Capture projects? Yes. Do you work with large ECAD libraries? Yes. Do you work with Allegro EDM Library Manager? No. Then this post is for you.

Allegro and OrCAD 17.4-2019 products come with the latest version of CDNSHelp. In this post, I will quickly share the changes made in this release, that will make things much simpler and before you realize it, your content searches will give you better results, and you get more done. Or, know more about what ...

OrCAD Trial 2019 is out. Download and use the full power of the latest release of OrCAD Capture CIS, PSpice, PCB Editor, OrCAD Sigrity ERC, and more, for up to 30 days. Designed to accelerate your productivity, this is a ...

Did you know that you can download and install available Cadence Allegro and OrCAD product releases and updates on Windows in an easy way using Cadence Download Manager? Yes, no more visiting the downloads.cadence.com site to check for...

The Allegro and OrCAD 7.4 release is now available for download and installation. Many of you must have already started using it and many more of you must be planning to install it in the coming days or weeks. Do you have all it needs to use the programs?

Allegro and OrCAD 17.4-2019 was released on October 18 and we have since then been getting a lot of queries about a lot of things. How do I install the products? What are the system requirements? What has changed? What's there in it for me? Is there ...

Allegro EDM (Engineering Data Management) 17.4-2019 is out! So, what's in it for you?

Here is a sleeker and more modern version of the OrCAD and Allegro release, with enhanced usability and a slew of new productivity-enhancing features. With the 17.4-2019 release, you get more intuitive and easy-to-use flows that enable optimized schematic-to-board-to-...

PCB layout editors provide many checks in the form of constraints and rules to ensure your design is correct. You even have the DFM rules to prevent fabrication or manufacturing issues. Then you have automatic routing to ensure an errorless board with the right connections and traces. But are you satisfied only with 'just a correct' board? Or, do you want to optimize it further? And what about 'quality'?

Working in an ECAD design team? Want to control access to certain design elements? Would notifications of design changes by other team members be helpful? If yes…

Routing is the core of a PCB. And, it's not an easy task. There are many challenges but, thankfully, there are solutions too. Here we list three common challenges and explain how to solve them.

If you get frequent calls from your fab houses or your customers regarding your product, or if your schematic, layout, and packaging engineers spend a lot of time exchanging notes about their requirements not being met, resulting in back and forth of designs, or if you believe, like most of us do, that a product should do what it was designed to do, constraints are your friends.

Ever noticed how some objects always mysteriously disappear? It's like they have their own legs. Or maybe, secretly, they thirst for adventure and go wandering off. Socks for example. Why does one twin always disappear after a round in the washing machine? After a few months, you just have a sad pile of lonely, orphaned socks in a variety of colors. Pens are equally guilty. They're always disappearing. Pen caps are even...