The proliferation of electromagnetic compatibility (EMC) directives during the 1990s became the latest in a long series of issues to upset the balance between logical and physical PCB design. As ...
When I started my career in electronics, there weren’t many signal integrity issues related to PCBs. Heck, there weren’t many PCBs! In the beginning, you could literally layout a PCB with an X-Acto ...
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 ...
Leading-edge chip desiLeading-edge chip design was never easy, but it’s getting harder all the time. Rapid advances in communication systems are driving data rates higher. With the emergence of ...