EDN

Open-source PCB design tools get major update

KiCad 6.0 open-source EDA software for schematic capture and PCB layout adds hundreds of new features, enhancements, and bug fixes. A refreshed user interface makes the visual design language, hotkeys ...
Business Wire

Quilter Secures $25M Series B to Eliminate Manual PCB Design with Physics-Driven AI

LOS ANGELES--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Quilter, the first and only company to publicly demonstrate fully autonomous PCB layout through physics-driven AI, today announced $25 million in Series B funding led by ...
Electronic Design

Basic Guidelines for Mixed-Signal PCB Layout Design

Considerations for dividing analog and digital blocks. Decoupling techniques. Breaking down the board layers. How best to deal with grounding. Similar to building a house, it’s essential to create a ...
Electronic Design

Motor-Driver PCB Layout Guidelines (Part 2)

6. SOT-23 and SOIC packages are typically used in low-power motor drivers. Standard leaded packages, like SOIC and SOT-23 packages, are often used for low-power motor drivers (Fig. 6). To maximize the ...
EDN

Eliminating the power integrity analysis bottleneck from PCB design: Product how-to

Is your PCB design team spending too much time waiting for IR-drop analysis results on the power delivery network (PDN), or trying to optimize the decoupling capacitor network without under- or ...