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Tutorials, news, snippets, and other various musings about the electrical engineering industry.
Posted on Oct 31, 2019
In celebration of our 30-year anniversary, Printed Circuit Design & Fab sat down with our CEO, Manny Marcano, to talk about the journey of 30 years in the business.
Tags: EMA Design Automation
Posted on Oct 9, 2019
This year marks EMA's 30th anniversary and to celebrate we are doing a giveaway!
Posted on Sep 11, 2019
Manually tracking part information and status throughout your design and keeping your database in sync with your design can be an exercise in futility. Luckily, there are two FREE apps available for download from OrCAD Capture Marketplace to help:...
Posted on Jul 25, 2019
Have you ever looked a board designed by someone else and wondered, how or why certain decisions were made (good or bad)? Robert Feranec offers an in-depth look into PCB design through a video series with Open Compute Project.
Posted on Jul 3, 2019
This tutorial will show you how to flex your design, measure paths in the x, y, and z directions, and perform collision detection in real-time directly within OrCAD PCB Designer Professional.
Posted on Jun 20, 2019
Incorporating testing into your design is critical for the success of your project. By setting Design for Test (DFT) constraints, you can check items such as testpoint spacing or testpoints under components to ensure the testability of your design....
Posted on Jun 19, 2019
This step-by-step tutorial walks through how to use and configure the Design for Assembly constraints included in OrCAD PCB Designer Professional, to ensure your board can be efficiently assembled.
Posted on Jun 19, 2019
This step-by-step tutorial shows how to use and configure the Design for Fabrication constraints included in OrCAD PCB Designer Professional, to ensure your board can be efficiently manufactured.
Posted on Jun 10, 2019
Design Rule Checks are usually performed to identify and resolve any features that may be troublesome for your design, including signal quality and manufacturing issues. Easily find route-quality issues during the routing process with Real-Time...
Tags: Real-Time Design PCB Layout and Routing OrCAD PCB Designer Suite OrCAD PCB Editor OrCAD PCB Designer Suite Cadence OrCAD
Posted on Apr 22, 2019
Creating Directed Groups within OrCAD PCB Designer
Tags: tutorials OrCAD PCB Designer Suite OrCAD PCB Editor OrCAD PCB SI OrCAD PCB Designer Suite Cadence OrCAD