Articles - CAD & Software

Computer-aided design of electronic devices

1. Spice models differential stripline
   Vittorio Ricchiuti
   Printed Circuit Boards (PCB) CAD & Software
   Differential signaling is a common technique for obtaining high noise immunity for critical signals in high-speed digital pc-board systems. The pc board's traces, carrying differential signals, are often edge-coupled offset striplines, with the ...
   Mar 18, 2025
2. What's LVGL, and how it works in embedded designs
   Majeed Ahmad
   Microcontrollers Usage CAD & Software
   Light and Versatile Graphics Library (LVGL) is steadily making inroads in the graphics realm by efficiently facilitating graphical user interface (GUI) designs in small, resource-constrained, and battery-powered devices such as wearables, e-bikes, ...
   Dec 11, 2024

3. Simulate input-offset current for current mirrors
   Johan Bauwelinck
   Analogue Design CAD & Software
   Simulating the output-offset current of a current mirror is straightforward. You simply have to apply an input current, measure the output current, and calculate the difference. This output-offset current, however, is not equal to the input-offset ...
   Oct 2, 2024
4. Transmission lines simulate digital filters in PSpice
   David Báez-López
   Signal Processing, Filters CAD & Software
   Designers use PSpice mainly to simulate analog circuits. However, you can also simulate digital filters with it. The main components in a digital filter are delay elements, adders, and multipliers. Although you can implement adders and multipliers ...
   Aug 19, 2024
5. PCB Design, Make, Assembly
   Printed Circuit Boards (PCB) CAD & Software JLCPCB
   Trust JLCPCB EasyEDA The consolidation of JLCPCB EasyEDA JLCPCB and EasyEDA assembled. The core reason of Co-branding is for better serving the coming future electronic products and the coming future tech-world. JLCPCB is known as a multilayer PCBs ...
   Jul 28, 2021
6. Introduce a free PCB file checker - NextDFM
   Printed Circuit Boards (PCB) CAD & Software NextPCB NextDFM
   1. Why NextPCB created NextDFM? According to statistics, 60% of the product cost depends on the initial design of itself. 75% of the manufacturing cost depends on the design specification. 70%-80% of production defects are caused by design. DFM has ...
   Jun 7, 2021
7. Bring Back BASIC
   CAD & Software
   Electronic Design I must be kidding, right? No, I’m not. I’m just suggesting that we take another look at the old programming language known as BASIC. The language has a great deal going for it, particularly that it’s easy to ...
   Oct 29, 2020
8. EDA in the Era of AI
   CAD & Software
   Joseph Sawicki, Executive Vice President for IC EDA at Mentor, a Siemens Business Electronic Design Artificial intelligence (AI) has proven useful in a range of applications, even in the electronic-design-automation arena. And by the looks of ...
   May 7, 2020
9. What's New in Autodesk EAGLE. Part 3 - Eagle 9.5, Eagle 9.6
   CAD & Software Autodesk Eagle 9.5 Eagle 9.6
   Cesca Fleischer, Michelle Stone, Lourdes Vasquez autodesk.com Part 1 - Eagle 9.3 Part 2 - Eagle 9.4 Eagle 9.5 We at Autodesk have been hard at work on the capabilities of EAGLE in anticipation of what we hope you’ll find is a pretty ...
   May 6, 2020
10. What's New in Autodesk EAGLE. Part 2 - Eagle 9.4
    CAD & Software Autodesk Eagle 9.4
    Cesca Fleischer, Michelle Stone, Lourdes Vasquez autodesk.com Part 1 - Eagle 9.3 It’s like getting your new prototype boards back from MFG or passing DRC; we always anticipate a new release with bated breath! EAGLE 9.4 is now available ...
    May 1, 2020