PCB design guidelines are created as benchmarks for circuit design engineers to meet the industry standards. Following these guidelines will ensure better manufacturability and robust product ...

Editor's note: This article addresses the need for designers of printed circuit boards for nextgen ICs to be savvy about package-on-package technology. New ways of working with sub-assembly printed ...

As data rates soar into the multi-gigabit range, high-speed digital (HSD) PCB design is no longer just about connecting the dots. Signal integrity (SI) and power integrity (PI) challenges can silently ...

Keysight’s Electrical Performance Scan (EP-Scan) is a digital simulation tool for hardware engineers and PCB designers that performs rapid signal integrity analysis. EP-Scan provides diagnostics to ...

Check out more coverage of DesignCon 2023. This article is also part of TechXchange: PCB Tools and Technology. In electronic systems, electrical signals tend to travel through a wide range of ...

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 ...

Today’s high-end field programmable gate arrays (FPGAs) with embedded transceivers support a variety of widely accepted serial protocol standards, including Gigabit Ethernet, PCI Express, XAUI and ...

True 3-D interconnects and packaging. Rigid PCBs are inherently 2-D. Rigid-flex, however, allows you to fold, bend and twist ...

Signal integrity (SI) is at the forefront of SoC and system designers’ thinking as they plan for upcoming high-speed GDDR6 DRAM and PHY implementations for automotive and advanced driver assistance ...

Wider parallel data buses, increasing data rates, and multiple loads are challenges for high-end memory interface designers. The demand for higher bandwidth and throughput is driving the requirement ...