Category: Board

Board and Module Design

  • 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…

  • 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,…

  • 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…

  • 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…

  • 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…

  • 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…