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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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June 06, 2019
Understanding the Value of the Digital Twin
Today, there are many new concepts emerging that can dramatically improve product development. The idea of a Digital Twin is one that offers quite a bit of promise for the development of electrical and electronic systems. There’s been quite a bit of buzz about it lately as well as a lot of confusion. Right now, there are a few different definitions of the Digital Twin. In this post, we’ll explain the value of two of them.
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May 28, 2019
Tech-Tip: CR-8000 Design Force – Benefits Of Export/Import Of Data Resource Files
If you migrated from CR-5000 Board Designer you might recall my ToolTip a few years back, specific to using the Parameter Resource file, in order to save and reuse settings you define within the tool such as route parameters or dimension parameters. The data resource file in the Design Force is the equivalent to that parameters resource file.
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May 07, 2019
Tech-Tip: DF 2019 New Feature: How to do checking the unconnected length
In DF 2019 we have new feature call “Checking the Unconnected Length”. But this feature is not in the What’s New online help, since it is execute by simple macro syntax...
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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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April 23, 2019
Tech Tip: Design Force 3D Technology Editor
In Design Force you can edit your board Technology using the 3D Technology Editor. In the 3D technology edit window, you can perform the following operations to edit the technology for the board.
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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 26, 2019
Tech Tip: Routing a PCB design in a native 3D Tool
PCB design tools were built on 2D software methods in the 1980s. Many of today’s design tools still use that 2D code base. Mechanical tools have moved on to native 3D design. PCB has been stuck more or less in the 2D world. Extensions to the 2D code base made 2.5D and 3D visualization possible. But designing in 3D requires the tool to be built on a 3D kernel.
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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 19, 2019
Tech Tip: Re-use Block Basics – Using Design Gateway to build a circuit block library
And it's easier than you think. A reuse library can boost productivity and product reliability. Read and watch our video to learn more.
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January 29, 2019
Tech Tip: Using Design Force Rule Editor to Calculate Track Impedance
Calculate the track width value from the characteristic impedance and layer configuration by using a field solver.
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January 11, 2019
Top 10 Tech Tips of 2018
Top 10 Tech Tips of 2018 – try saying that one 5 times fast! 2019 is off to a great start! We thought it was a good time to reflect on the best-of-the-best Tech Tips from 2018. The following are the most popular Tech Tip posts published 2018.
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December 18, 2018
Tech Tip: Using Inhibit Layers to Clear Trace Patterns
In this tech tip, we will explore how you can clear a routed trace pattern on multiple conductive layers. Watch our video to go through the steps with us.
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December 04, 2018
Tech Tip: How to Import DXF Data into CR-8000 Design Gateway Symbol Editor
Follow along with this step-by-step video and learn how to import DXF data into the CR-8000 Design Gateway symbol editor.
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