I’m recently looking in to cadence design suit. There is so much jargon on its homepage, I had no idea what tools they have and what tool does what. They have so many …
Schematic-Design
Today I was talking with Brandon about an open-source hardware community project. Open-source hardware is quite different from open-source software. In software you can …
When you design a PCB, in most EDA tools the designators (R1,C4 U7, etc.) are placed on the silkscreen. Silkscreen layer is for information not data. Sometimes we are so …
The first thing you should do after importing the net list to your PCB design tool, is to define the rules. The rules definitions actually start at the schematic design …
Clean up the text. First thing is to avoid overlapping texts, it’s very common to see the designators and values text overlap. Next when writing values such as …
Today we will talk about designing hardware in a systematic way. We will see what are the different approaches we can take and how we break down the product brief into …
Introduction The older generation sometimes calls it a PW board (printed wire board). Today we’ll have a bird’s eye view of a PCB. How it is designed, manufactured, …
When I first started using Altium, I found the OutJob file a bit confusing. After taking Robert Feranec’s course, I understood it better, but it still involved moving a …
New Tool- Waveform Generator Finally, after sitting in the TODO list for a long time, I’ve made a basic wavefrom generator based on arduino, made using this …
Today I received the new and improved PCBs. Now the foot prints names are bigger, the scales starts at the edge. Check it out: Source Featured On: Comments: Open source …