When you design a PCB, in most EDA tools the designators (R1,C4 U7, etc.) are placed on the silkscreen. Silkscreen layer...
When moving up from low speed design to high speed design, I saw engineers trying to length match USB 2.0 within 0.1mm or even ...
When you design a product and if you are not really sure if you need an extra capacitor for one of the IC or a module. You add ...
Today, I want to talk about two ICs with the same footprint and the same function, yet they may not work interchangeably. <...
It’s such a small thing to add and yet it’s forgotten. All PCB must have some way of mounting the board insi...
The first thing you should do after importing the net list to your PCB design tool, is to define the rules. The rules de...
At some point in your design journey, you will take the leap from designing products around microcontrollers to designing produ...
First of all when I say high speed, it doesn’t mean high frequency, it means quick signal transition. If the trace is lo...
Here are 9 reference designs that can help you in becoming a better PCB designer. None of the below are any affiliations, these...
Clean up the text. First thing is to avoid overlapping texts, it’s very common to see the designators...
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