Category: Board
Board and Module Design
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Sixty years plus
Almost every presentation that I go to talks about the fast moving development cycle and the rapid obsolescence of products. So it was a real…
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What Comes Around… Is Reflected?
With higher-frequency (GHz) signals becoming more prevalent on trusty old-school FR-4 boards, it’s become increasingly important to test the quality of the lines – specifically,…
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Closing the Thermal Loop
It’s impossible to design an SoC today without good simulation models. Emphasis on “good.” We’ve always simulated, but, back when mask sets cost less than…
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BoardView Becomes SystemNav
Almost two years ago we looked at Magma’s newly-announced BoardView. The idea was to simplify the border crossing between chip and board when tracing signals…
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Another PCB Tool Refresh
Our feature this week talks about Zuken’s PCB tool redesign, and out of left field came another announcement of yet another PCB tool that has…
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Analysis by Braille
As a technology, JTAG (or IEEE 1149.1) has been leveraged a lot of ways to do a lot of things that may not have been…