Design for Manufacturing
Ensure your designs perform as intended and can be successfully manufactured in high volumes.
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Read ArticleA Guide to PCB Material Selection
A material selection guide is as good a place as any to start. Your typical PCB consists of one or more layers of copper laminated between sheet layers of a non-conductive substrate.
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Read ArticleComponent Placement Strategies in Multi-board PCB Systems
There are definitely limits on how much circuitry can fit on a single board. The board itself has an upper limit around the size...
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Read Article3 Thermal Management Approaches for Your Smartphone
Laptop and desktop designers have the luxury of using fans, liquid cooling systems, and large surface area heat sinks to keep their devices cool. But what about smartphones designers?
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Read FlipbookIPC DesignersCouncil San Jose July 2018
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Read ArticleThe End Game - Winding Down a Successful Product
The invention launched and took the market by storm. After climbing the mass production ramp and catching up with demand, the object of desire settled into a nice run rate. That is always the plan, bu
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Read ArticleSustaining Engineering - What to do After You Hit a Homerun
Success! Oh, the sweet, sweet problems of success. The first problem is that we just cannot build these (insert product) fast enough. The second is that suddenly there is a new cash cow in the room. T
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Read ArticleMachine Learning for Household Chores
In the not-too-distant near future, a robot might be folding your clothes, doing your dishes, or mowing the lawn. In fact, robots exist today with the mechanical capability to perform all these tasks
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Read ArticleOn-Demand Webinar: Design for Manufacturing (DFM) and Why it Matters
Prevent time-to-market delays by identifying manufacturing issues before they become a costly mistake. It’s not uncommon for designs to be submitted to manufacturing only to have problems...
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Read FlipbookBest Practices: Real-time DFA Analysis
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Read ArticleSlideshow: Allegro DesignTrue DFM Overview
Allegro DesignTrue DFM technology provides real-time manufacturing checking to the PCB design process. Why wait to find all your DFM issues at the end when you can be resolving them while you design.
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Read ArticleAdd Mill Tab, Drill Chart and Fabrication Notes to Panel Drawing
See how easy it is to add mill tabs, details, drill chart and fabrication notes for your panel design and drawing in OrCAD Panel Editor
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Read ArticleAdd Materials in OrCAD
With OrCAD it is easy to manage board materials and communicate your design stack-ups effectively to your manufacturer.
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Read ArticleNotes On Soldermask
The coating you put over the circuit pattern that leaves the metal exposed where you want to join components to the board is another make-or-break aspect of PCB design. While the geometry of the...
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Read ArticleHow Do Manufacturing Tolerances Work?
In July 2017, a rollercoaster ride in Ohio failed dramatically, killing one person and injuring seven others. The cause of the accident? Corrosion. Roller coasters must operate and withstand...
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Read ArticleAnatomy of a Solder Joint
Life in Assembly was easier with lead and Freon. Yes, Freon is a greenhouse gas that pollutes the atmosphere. Lead poisons everything else. Life after lead and Freon promises to be better for the...
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Read ArticleNotes from the Board Room - A day in the life of a Googler
In my quest to become a world famous PCB designer, (stop laughing!) I've taken to putting my own words on the screen and sharing them here. My job is to enable design wins, period. It's a cruel...
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Read Article3 Common Vias: Their Manufacturing Pros and Cons
When creating your PCB Board, understanding the pros and cons of each via and how they impact the design and manufacturing process is important to know.
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Read ArticlePrevent manufacturing problems with PCB Editor Via2Via line fattening
Easily avoid potential manufacturing issues due to acid traps between adjacent microvias.
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Read ArticleHow Do Collision Avoidance Systems Work?
Driving is a lot more complex than we typically consider when we get behind the wheel each day. But chances are you’ve had a moment—a car that suddenly brakes in front of you, an animal darting...
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Read ArticleDesign Strategies - WiFi 802.11
Of course, you know what WiFi is. You can get it wherever money changes hands. Being WiFi-enabled is a low-risk strategy when it comes to the number of hot-spots you're likely to pass through on a...
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