There are many powerful and easy-to-use electronic design automation (EDA) software packages available for PCB designers today. Here's a closer look at some. There are many powerful and easy-to-use ...

Begin your layout by adding the components. Select the parts from the General Package . Drag each component to the desired location on the board.The snap feature makes it easily to align the parts ...

If you’ve been spending hours with the digital calipers while designing enclosures for your circuit boards there may be a better way. [Phil] tipped us off about a new software package that will let ...

KiCAD EDA is a free, open-source, and cross-platform electronic design automation suite. This software contains three different modules including Schematic Editor, PCB Layout, and 3D Viewer. Schematic ...

MULINO, Ore.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--ExpressPCB®, whose mission is to provide software and manufacturing solutions for low cost, fast turnaround prototyping, has just announced the new PCB layout software ...

When the new version of the configuration tool became available, I went to work to learn new commands. When I was looking for the new assignments I was hoping for, I did not find much regarding ...

This guest blog post, a review of Easy-PC, is written by Philip King, Director of PCB Train. This guest blog post, a review of Easy-PC, is written by Philip King, Director of PCB Train. For circuit ...

Mentor Graphics has redefined its PCB design tools with three software packages at price-points to address different parts of the design market, and some it is addressing for the first time. The ...

Engineers at Maxxan Systems needed to redesign the thermal-management controls on the SG100, a two-unit high (2U), rack-mounted computer after upgrading it with two Intel 2.4-GHz Xeon processors.

For testing PCBs, test engineers have a variety of options ranging from venerable in-circuit testers and flying probers to functional testers and the latest in embedded-instrument technology.