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An intricate network of pink and blue illuminated lines on a circuit board, symbolizing high-speed signal paths and the precision needed to calculate trace length from time delay values.
  • Blog
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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High-speed stealth fighter jet mid-flight demonstrating agility and speed, symbolizing advanced DDR4 technology capabilities
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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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SPICE-based Simulation
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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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Zuken Pulling Ahead in Automotive PCB Design
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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 ...
Mastering Power Integrity
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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...
cadstar pcb layout
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August 29, 2017
A Few Thoughts on Avoiding DDR4 Layout Problems

DDR4, the fourth generation of DDR SDRAM technology, is the latest and greatest SDRAM standard and will continue to be until the fifth generation is released. The new standard features a point-to-point architecture that offers superior timing margins.

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An expansive digital landscape creating a pathway of bright blue circuit lines on a circuit board, symbolizing the complex pathways of data management in PCB design
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November 09, 2010
S-Parameters: Microwave goes Mainstream for High-Speed PCB Design Part 2

Last week I introduced you to the concept of S-Parameters, and now I’m going to explain a bit more about measuring them and simulating with S-Parameter models.

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S-Parameters: Microwave goes Mainstream for High-Speed PCB Design Part 1 - scattering parameters
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November 01, 2010
S-Parameters: Microwave goes Mainstream for High-Speed PCB Design Part 1

I’d like to explain to you in straightforward terms what S-Parameters are and why they’re so useful. When I say “straightforward”,  I mean that in a technical sense, but this is a specialised area. If you’re not designing high-speed PCBs, or you don’t know much about signal integrity, you might want to tune out now.

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