Printed circuit board (PCB) was introduced as a replacement for bulky wiring circuits almost a century ago. Today, it’s the core of the electronics industry, supporting the latest designs like IoT, AI ...

One of the big problems with doing PCB layout is finding a suitable footprint for the components you want to use. Most tools have some library although — of course — some are better than others. You ...

Electronic design automation company Mentor Graphics Corp. today said it has acquired ECAD, the printed circuit board (PCB) computer-aided design software division of Cadix Inc. Financial details of ...

Chaotic circuits can arise from either computed (using Analog Computers or Digital Computers) solutions to coupled differential equations or from unstable systems/circuits. A new open-source circuit ...

Printed circuit boards (PCBs) have become the foundation of contemporary electronics, appearing in nearly all electronic equipment. The worldwide printed circuit board industry is continually ...

Charles Pfeil is an Engineering Director in the Systems Design Division at Mentor Graphics. My first experience with computerized printed-circuit-board (PCB) design was in 1978 when I acquired two ...