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Tutorials, news, snippets, and other various musings about the electrical engineering industry.
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
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Posted on Apr 22, 2019
This tutorial will show you how easy it is to simulate and view impedance and coupling issues in your traces with no additional steps or modeling by utilizing the included workflow manager.
Tags: tutorials PCB Design Entry PCB Layout and Routing OrCAD PCB Designer Suite OrCAD PCB Editor OrCAD PCB SI OrCAD PCB Designer Suite Cadence OrCAD
Posted on Apr 12, 2019
With designs increasing in complexity and speed, it is more important than ever to ensure your design functions properly. For some device signals, this means ensuring timing of your components. Typically, this involves performing a post-route Design...
Tags: PCB Layout and Routing OrCAD PCB Designer Suite OrCAD PCB Editor OrCAD PCB Designer Suite Cadence OrCAD
Posted on Mar 8, 2019
How do you know if a component will fail in your circuit? As the designer, it’s your job to ensure that the parts in your design are within their stress limitations. This can be tedious and time consuming, so shortcuts are usually taken. These...
Tags: Simulation and Analysis OrCAD PSpice Designer Suite PSpice Advanced Analysis OrCAD PSpice Designer Suite Cadence OrCAD
Posted on Feb 10, 2019
Need Valentine’s Day cards for the Engineers in your life or are you an engineer wanting to spread the electrical love? Check out our Engineering-themed Valentine's Day Cards.
Tags: Valentine's Day Simulation and Analysis PSpice - MATLAB / Simulink PSpice A/D PSpice Advanced Analysis EMA Design Automation