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What is PCB design? Using PCB Design Software you can create your schematic design, layout and route components together which can then be manufactured into a physical circuit board.
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September 10, 2020
Powerful SI/PI/EMI PCB Simulation Environment Reduces Analysis Time by 86%
What do you do if your next project is high speed, with exceptionally stringent EMI requirements, and has to be complete in less time than you’ve ever developed a product before? When the Ontec team found themselves facing that predicament, they turned to Zuken. Why?
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June 30, 2020
CR-8000 2020 Supports Electronic Subsystem Design
CR-8000 2020 is Zuken’s flagship PCB design platform, and I’m pleased to share some of the most exciting details of the new product release with you. But before we get into the new product release discussion, you may be wondering why we call it a platform and not a tool. CR-8000 2020 has all the bells and whistles for electronic subsystem development.
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May 21, 2020
Singing from the Same Page
In the race to industry 4.0 consistent data is vital for successful digitalization. One of the biggest threats are data silos. Data silos describe the storage of data that remains under the control of one department. Therefore it is typically isolated from the rest of the organization or lives on network folders that have no access control, read-and-write or version control.
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April 21, 2020
Legacy ECAD Data Management and Migration with CR-8000
In today’s global value chains, data exchange and re-reuse are vital to support collaboration and productivity. But most data formats are proprietary. For any organization with an extensive database of ECAD data, the need for data migration will eventually arise.
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March 26, 2020
Multi-board design for applications with different voltages
The benefits of developing all boards of a system concurrently on a single CAD canvas. Stacking PCBs, as opposed to connecting with cables, in multi-board design is a current and highly popular trend, as manufacturing costs are reduced and reliability improved.
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October 17, 2019
Be First to Market with DDR5!
Double Data Rate 5 (DDR5) is the next-generation standard for random-access memory (RAM). The new specification promises to bring chips that have much higher performance than the existing DDR4 modules, as well as lower power consumption. Let us show you how you can be first to market with DDR5!
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July 11, 2019
How to Calculate Trace Length for High-speed Signals
To keep a good high-speed signal quality from driver to receiver on a PCB is not an easy task for designers. One of the most challenging issues is managing the propagation delay and relative time delay mismatches. Let me take you through the process...
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June 27, 2019
Who’s afraid of DDR4?
What IC designers do to help us route high-speed PCBs
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June 13, 2019
Get to Know Your SPICEs
PCB designers typically have little or no experience with SPICE applications. No worries, follow along with me and get to know your SPICEs!
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May 23, 2019
If you can’t scale the chip, you should scale something else
Do you know what a »Yogi-ism« is? Yogi-ism goes back to the name of the late Yogi Berra (1925 – 2015), an American professional baseball catcher, who was an 18-time All-Star and won 10 World Series championships – more than any other player in MLB history. After his career as a player, he turned to coaching, where he became famous for his “impromptu pithy comments, malapropisms, and seemingly unintentional witticisms, known as Yogi-isms”
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May 02, 2019
Shorter Design Cycles with Better ECAD-MCAD Collaboration
Every day, more and more of our lives become connected with IoT technology. With billions of smart products already out there.
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March 28, 2019
“You’re connected now caller” The risks of crosstalk
Did you know the expression ‘crosstalk’ stems from the days of telephone exchanges, as staffed by operators connecting parties who could sometimes and unintentionally hear someone else’s conversation? The talk was, literally, crossing over from one line to another.
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March 12, 2019
Tech-Tip: 2-Re-use Blocks in System Planner
Believe it or not, you can use your Circuit Block Library for architectural planning too!
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February 28, 2019
Inside Signal Integrity: Impedance Control - Part 2
In part 1 of this blog we took a back-to-basics approach and discussed line impedance and its effects in signal integrity. As every electrical conductor comprises capacitance, an inductance, and a frequency-dependent ohmic resistance, and with increasing frequencies, these electrical characteristics will influence and distort the signal.
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February 21, 2019
Inside Signal Integrity: Impedance Control - Part 1
Impedance and impedance control are some of the oldest and most discussed topics in PCB design. They are especially important in high-speed design related to signal integrity. In this, the first of a two-part blog, we’ll go back to the basics of impedance/impedance control and consider what influences line impedance. In part two, we’ll set about controlling it.
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February 05, 2019
Making Movies with Customers: Why Renishaw choose Zuken, Plus Awesome Movie Bloopers
It’s not often you spend your work day laughing AND learning. But that’s how it went for Zuken Europe’s first foray into filming videos with our customers.
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