Design for Manufacturing
Ensure your designs perform as intended and can be successfully manufactured in high volumes.
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Read ArticleDFM: Integrated Manufacturing Constraints
Manufacturing rules are managed as constraints in the familiar constraints manager, coexisting independently with electrical rules which can have more or less constrictive constraints.
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Read ArticleDFT
Easily ensure test points are accessible in your designs.
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Read ArticleReal-Time Design for Manufacturibility (DFM)
Post-design DFM checks are too late. Even if you’re able to find a mistake, you’re going to lose hours, days, even weeks adjusting your design. OrCAD gives you the full DFM, Design for Fabrication...
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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 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 Flipbook10 Common Design for Manufacturing (DFM) Issues and How to Solve Them
Every day is a busy day for PCB Designers; strict schedules and tight deadlines are a normal occurrence. From layout to manufacture and testing, a single holdup can cost a business untold amounts...
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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 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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