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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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October 05, 2018
Connect Your Component Library to the Supply Chain
Take a walk in the engineer’s shoes: I need an 80 MHZ network controller for my new project and I found one in the PLM/PDM system. That was easy. Now a quick check in the procurement database to do a price and availability check. So far so good, now on to the component engineering system to see if there are any possible lifecycle issues with a 10-year minimum requirement. It’s my lucky day, no issues and it’s a company-preferred part with an ECAD library instance.
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Design engineers must have the ability to make intelligent component selections involving critical supply chain information without having to leav...
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October 04, 2018
How Connected Products and Modular Design Can Improve Your Product Quality
Using feedback from products in the field to continuously improve design modules used as the basis for product development can increase product performance and reliability and reduce development time.
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Using feedback from products in the field to continuously improve design modules used as the basis for product development can increase product pe...
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September 27, 2018
Getting IoT Device Design Right for EMC and the 'Interference of Things'
As we welcome increasing numbers of IoT devices into our industries, offices and home lives, we shouldn’t be surprised to see increasing electromagnetic (EM) congestion. Or, as it’s now dubbed, the ‘Interference of Things’.
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As we welcome increasing numbers of IoT devices into our industries, offices and home lives, we shouldn’t be surprised to see increasing electro...
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September 20, 2018
Flex Circuits Stretch the Limits of Technology
A customer recently asked me if CR-8000 Design Force could support stretchable flex designs. At first, I found the question odd, until they shared their intent: wearable electronics. The idea of wearable electronic products like head and wrist bands sparked an interesting conversation and piqued my interest.
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A customer recently asked me if CR-8000 Design Force could support stretchable flex designs. At first, I found the question odd, until they shared...
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September 12, 2018
Metal Additive Helps Overcome Tough Electronics Cooling Challenge
Man-carried military communication systems often consume large amounts of power. The heat must be removed from the electronics package to avoid frying sensitive electronic components. The package typically is designed to be carried in a backpack which often puts difficult constraints on the form factor and weight of the system
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Man-carried military communication systems often consume large amounts of power. The heat must be removed from the electronics package to avoid fr...
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August 21, 2018
Connect CR-8000 with Polar Instruments' Speedstack PCB Stackup/ECAD Interface
We’re happy to announce that Speedstack, Polar Instruments’ layer stackup design/documentation tools, can now be directly linked to Zuken’s CR-8000 Design Force and DFM Center.
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We're happy to announce that Speedstack, Polar Instruments' layer stackup design/documentation tools, can now be directly linked to Zuken's CR-800...
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August 16, 2018
What You Really Need to Know When You're Routing PCB Differential Pairs
Tips for when routing differential pairs - You can tell when something isn’t as clear as it should be. The same questions come up time and again. You ask three experts and get three different answers. Routing differential pairs can be like that. Why? Because “it depends” - on exactly what signals those pairs are carrying and what kind of PCB you’re creating.
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May 24, 2018
Faster Board Speeds Demand Constraint-driven PCB Design
Do you still use Post-it Notes? Invented in 1979, this simple, yet incredibly powerful, communication mechanism is still commonly found in engineering and design departments. Despite modern electronic communication, many companies still struggle to provide a replacement for their ease-of-use and versatility.
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Do you still use Post-it Notes? Invented in 1979, this simple, yet incredibly powerful, communication mechanism is still commonly found in enginee...
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May 02, 2018
Zuken Pulling Ahead in Automotive PCB Design
Zuken has been developing PCB design tools for the automotive market for years. With automotive electronics worth over $200 billion globally, and growing every day, Zuken is preparing for a brave new world of smart cars, and autonomous and electric vehicles.
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Zuken has been developing PCB design tools for the automotive market for years. With automotive electronics worth over $200 billion globally, and ...
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May 01, 2018
Tech Tip: Fanout using CR-8000 Design Force Dragon EX
Simply draw a Dragon area around your BGA. Then select the Dragon area and create a strategy to fanout the pads of your BGA - Watch movie
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CR-8000's Design Force Dragon EX tool can be used to fanout BGAs. Simply draw a Dragon area around your BGA. Then select the Dragon area and creat...
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March 29, 2018
Controlling the Release Points for Your PLM/PDM System
There is one thing that all design engineers will agree on: creating and gathering all the required data for PLM is error-prone and can be a royal pain. We all understand the value of releasing our design data to the corporate PLM system but our design process dictates multiple release points, and each one has a different purpose and data requirements.
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There is one thing that all design engineers will agree on: creating and gathering all the required data for PLM is error-prone and can be a royal...
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March 22, 2018
Mastering Power Integrity: First Get Your Power Distribution System Right
I don’t think I’m generalizing when I say that designers working on complex high speed designs really don’t want to expend a lot of time and effort dealing with power integrity problems. And they especially don’t want to do it using tools that are detached from their design flow. In today’s complex PCBs, we’re talking advanced processors, complex FPGAs and superfast memories, which all share various voltage ranges.
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I don’t think I’m generalizing when I say that designers working on complex high speed designs really don’t want to expend a lot of time and...
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March 01, 2018
Lower Manufacturing Costs with XJTAG’s New Design Gateway Plugin
XJTAG has partnered with Zuken create a new plugin for Design Gateway and is offering it free of charge. The plugin, called XJTAG DFT Assistant, helps to validate correct JTAG chain connectivity, while displaying boundary scan access and coverage onto the schematic diagram through full integration with Design Gateway.
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XJTAG has partnered with Zuken create a new plugin for Design Gateway and is offering it free of charge. The plugin, called XJTAG DFT Assistant, h...
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February 08, 2018
EMC = DRC²: The Importance of EMC Rule Checking
When it comes design rule checks for PCB designs, there are checks that should be performed that are just as important as spacing rules. Strict adherence to basic PCB design rule checks, such as track to track, track to via, via to via, pad to track etc. – though necessary to avoid short circuits – only scratch the surface when trying to identify potential design flaws.
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When it comes design rule checks for PCB designs, there are checks that should be performed that are just as important as spacing rules. Strict ad...
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January 25, 2018
Advanced Packaging with Zuken’s CR-8000 Design Force
Advanced packaging techniques such as system-in-package (SiP), fan-out wafer-level packaging (FOWLP), 3D die stacks, etc. have been around for over a decade, yet with any other EDA design tool, it is still a tedious, time consuming, and error-prone process to implement these designs.
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Advanced packaging techniques such as system-in-package (SiP), fan-out wafer-level packaging (FOWLP), 3D die stacks, etc. have been around for ove...
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January 18, 2018
Four Steps for Avoiding Surprise In-Use Product Failures
As we witness the birth of an era of connected devices with smart homes, connected cars and smart networked supply chains and factories, we might imagine that unexpected failures of electronic products would be a rarity.
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As we witness the birth of an era of connected devices with smart homes, connected cars and smart networked supply chains and factories, we might ...