09/09/2020
Although most electronics engineers understand the principles of an AC to DC power supply (PSU) and could probably design one to work, it takes specialist knowledge and skills to fully optimise it for cost, size and performance.
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03/09/2020
A quiet revolution is taking place in electronics hardware design and, as silicon integration has continued (fed by the economics of Moore’s Law), engineers are gradually moving from developing mostly at the component and circuit level to working more with board, modules and subsystems
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24/08/2020
In the coming years, Tier 1 automotive suppliers have an enormous opportunity with the development of autonomous vehicles (AVs) but there are challenges - the whole supply chain is being disrupted by new participants and new technologies.
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12/08/2020
For semiconductor manufacturers, compound semiconductor manufacturers, raw wafer material suppliers, and R&D labs, utilising wet process cleaning equipment is critical when it comes to producing extremely reliable products.
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22/07/2020
A DVCon Europe 2019 conference paper, jointly authored by Renesas and OneSpin Solutions, considered innovative chip safety analysis. In this article Jörg Grosse and Sergio Marchese discuss its findings.
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16/07/2020
The stacking and direct interconnection of PCBs is becoming increasingly popular. What are the benefits of developing the boards needed for a multi-board assembly on a single CAD canvas?
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02/07/2020
In today’s vehicles, according to AUDI, microelectronics enable over 80% of vehicle innovation and high-end cars may contain more than 100 electronic control units (ECUs) controlling both safety-critical and entertainment functions, as well as implementing advanced driver-assistance systems (ADAS).
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22/06/2020
Launched in 2015, and used by about 20% of all VHDL FPGA designers, UVVM is one of the fastest growing verification methodologies in the EDA industry.
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21/04/2020
Integrated passives have a lot going for them. They take up less space on a PCB, they simplify design and they can, with the right processes shrink circuit tolerances thanks to closer component matching. The downside is that, as with semiconductors, volume is everything.
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14/04/2020
Could the days of the hard computer chip be numbered? Covered in transistors and other semi-conducting elements, these rigid devices likewise render the devices in which they are found similarly inflexible.
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25/03/2020
Small is the desirable form factor, whether it is consumer devices or industrial equipment. As space becomes more limited on circuit boards or in automotive systems, it pays to be small.
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05/03/2020
The method of printing PCBs has not changed for decades. In the early days of imaging circuit boards a substrate (copper laminate) was screen printed with a liquid etch resist; this was then oven cured.
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07/02/2020
How can you manage humidity and performance in precision analogue systems?
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31/01/2020
Cadence Design Systems’ Steven Lewis discusses why analogue design will persist, and why the analogue world often finds itself grappling with the same problems.
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14/11/2019
Why discretes tend to win out over ICs when it comes to designing ‘folded cascode’ charge amplifiers. By Tolga Aydemir
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10/10/2019
When Daimler set about creating a test chamber for electromagnetic compatibility (EMC) it wanted an artificial environment that would reflect the conditions its vehicle would meet on the roads of the future.
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26/09/2019
Are PCB designers ready for a world of printed electronics? If not, it might be prudent to start thinking about moving beyond traditional PCB design and considering how to approach this rapidly growing market.
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23/07/2019
It’s 60 years since the filing of two patents that kick-started the incredible growth of the chipmaking industry.
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11/07/2019
Three years ago, Toyota’s CEO declared the company would need to put autonomous vehicles through almost 9 billion miles of testing before they could be deemed safe to use on public roads.
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25/06/2019
Several years ago at the Design Automation Conference (DAC) the talk was of big data.
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12/06/2019
The break-through new process for making FPCs of unlimited length.
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31/05/2019
Big Data and AI are driving a new wave of technological innovation, but are the tools designers need available?
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29/04/2019
AI inference processing is still in its infancy, but the market and technologies are growing at a rapid rate.
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24/04/2019
PCB Design and Manufacturing Live opens its doors for a second year, welcoming a host of the industry’s PCB experts.
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13/03/2019
Board engineers are familiar with the trends - smaller, faster, safer. But as electronic systems become more complicated and the demands placed on them increase, creating a system that meets all this criterion is becoming more difficult to manage and deliver.
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