Cadence claims the artificial intelligence built into its Allegro X platform can help reduce turnaround times by 10X for PCB designs. Cadence Design Systems has started bringing artificial ...

Online PCB design tools are becoming more powerful in a quest to compete with traditional desktop tools. In her hands-on review, author Natasha Baker explores several of the features of a new online ...

As the world is becoming increasingly virtual and software is replacing hardware, electrical and electronics engineers are trying to ride the same bandwagon with their tool of choice, PCB (Printed ...

Altium Designer 22 delivers real-time supply chain intelligence directly within the PCB design environment. The Part Insights Experience feature of Designer 22 furnishes information about component ...

Printed circuit board (PCB) design is a complex endeavor, but it’s more manageable when you have access to the right tools. Numerous companies now offer PCB design tools that allow collaboration ...

My thanks to Mike Meakin for drawing my attention to a neat web-based circuit and pcb design tool. It is being developed by a couple of guys in Belgium and, from the video on the website, it looks ...

Protel Autotrax is a PCB design tool first released for DOS in the mid-80s. Consider this a look at the history of PCB design software. I’m not recommending anyone actually use Protel Autotrax — ...

Cadence has started shipping version ten of its OrCAD printed circuit design tools. Three new configurations have been added to OrCAD 10.0: Unison EE combines schematic capture with PSpice A/D for ...

For the last five months, I’ve been writing a series of posts describing how to build a PCB in every piece of software out there. Every post in this series takes a reference schematic and board, and ...

This is the first of several articles in the PCB Design Best Practices series, which discusses the different steps of PCB development from the basics of creating a design schematic with specific ...