A good layout design optimizes supply efficiency, alleviates thermal stress, and most importantly, minimizes the noise and interactions among traces and components. To achieve these, it is important ...

When you first start out in the PCB layout game and know just enough to be dangerous, you simply plop down a connector, run a trace or two, and call it a hack. As you learn more about the finer poi… ...

In an open-source PCB design, layouts that have already proven effective can be copied – eliminating the need to start the design from scratch. Figure 1: Electronic design trends include the use of ...

Of course, our PCB design rules should allow this: the minimum trace width and clearance should be no more than c = (p-d)/3, where p is the pad pitch and d is the pad diameter.

For instance, a single issue of quality grounding can affect the entire layout of a high - performance mixed-signal PCB design. And for this reason, this area should not be overlooked.

Eventually, almost every EE must design a PCB, which isn’t something that’s taught in school. Yet engineers, technicians, and even novice PCB designers can create high-quality ...

Moore’s law, applied to data rates, has pushed PCB circuits so fast that the layout becomes part of the circuit. In designs such as DDR3 and PCIe, the fastest memory and high-speed serial performance ...

About the Author John Burkhert Jr is a career PCB Designer experienced in Military, Telecom, Consumer Hardware and lately, the Automotive industry. Originally, an RF specialist — compelled to flip the ...

Similarly, it may make sense to move the ICs around inside the package, based on the overall layout of the PCB. Processors will generally run much hotter than the memory chips around them, so PCB ...