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5 Power Integrity Myths: AC Edition
The biggest threat to your power integrity might be outdated design advice. This article challenges five common AC power integrity myths and shows what really matters when designing today's high-speed PCBs.
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Your Design Data Has Zero Defense
Your design data may be more exposed than you think. This webinar shows how to identify common security gaps and secure engineering workflows with centralized access control and governance.
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Flex Circuit Coverlay: Design with Lamination Processes In Mind
Your flex PCB may look perfect in CAD but coverlay doesn't stay perfectly still during manufacturing. This article reveals why designing for lamination behavior is one of the most important steps in building reliable flex circuits.
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Integrated PCB Design vs. Legacy Point Tools: What’s the Real Cost?
As hardware development grows more collaborative, disconnected point tools can introduce data inconsistencies, traceability gaps, and costly coordination challenges. This article examines how integrated PCB design environments connect design, mechanical, supply chain, and review workflows to improve efficiency throughout the product lifecycle.
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Make Better Design Decisions with Signal and Power Integrity Insight
Signal integrity and power integrity are closely connected, with problems in one often affecting the other as designs become faster and more complex. This webinar explains how integrated analysis workflows help engineers evaluate PDN performance, identify potential issues early, and improve overall design quality.
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Optimizing Your Electronics Product Design Workflow and Eliminating Bottlenecks
Every manual handoff adds time and risk to the product development process. This article shows how modern design workflows automate routine tasks, improve data visibility, and help engineering teams focus on innovation instead of administration.
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Avoid Cross-Board Signal Integrity Issues in High-Performance Multiboard PCB Designs
Your signal may be perfect on the PCB and fail the moment it crosses a connector. This article explores the hidden SI challenges in multi-board systems and how engineers can eliminate them before they become costly debugging sessions.
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Proto-BOM in Minutes: How BOM Portal Accelerates Component Selection
Still building BOMs the hard way? Discover how modern workflows can help you create a prototype-ready BOM faster while improving visibility into pricing, availability, and risk.
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How to Manage Power Integrity and EMI in Complex Multiboard Systems
This article examines the challenges of maintaining power integrity and controlling EMI in complex multiboard systems. It provides practical strategies for managing return paths, connector transitions, and power distribution across interconnected assemblies.
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Agile Teams: From Design Tool to Product Development Platform
Learn how Agile Teams evolves beyond traditional PCB design workflows to support connected product development. This webinar explores how centralized data, collaboration tools, and governance capabilities help teams accelerate delivery while maintaining control.
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Benefits of Using an Integrated Design Environment for PCB Development
Using separate tools often creates inefficiencies and increases the risk of mistakes. This article explains how integrated design environments streamline workflows by keeping design data connected and accessible.
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Enterprise vs. Midsize PCB Design Software: What Actually Changes at Scale
PCB design challenges change significantly as organizations scale. This article explores the key differences between mid-size and enterprise design environments, from collaboration and governance to data management and workflow automation.
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A Smarter Way to Manage Electronics Development
Discover how engineering managers keep large, cross-functional teams aligned and productive. This guide explores structured collaboration, repeatable workflows, and clear visibility throughout the entire product lifecycle from initial requirements to field support.
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Ultra HDI Is Changing What “Assembly-Friendly” Looks Like
As component pitch decreases, even small manufacturing variations can consume a significant portion of the available design margin. This article explains how tolerance stacking, solder paste deposition, inspection limitations, and rework challenges can affect assembly reliability in Ultra HDI designs.
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How Design Review Automation Saves Hours (and Headaches) Per Project
Design review automation helps teams spend less time managing feedback and more time improving the design. This article explores how centralized comments, structured checklists, action tracking, and approval workflows can make reviews faster, more consistent, and easier to close.
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Comparing Flex and Rigid-Flex PCBs: When to Use What?
This article compares flex and rigid-flex PCBs across key design and manufacturing considerations, including cost, bend radius, impedance, and assembly complexity. It explains how choosing the right construction early can help reduce design risks and ensure better manufacturability.
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The Security and Speed of Cloud-Based Electronics Design for Engineering Teams
Security shouldn't be the reason your engineering team slows down. This article explores how cloud-based design platforms can turn secure access, governance, and IP protection into an enabler of faster collaboration rather than another development bottleneck.
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PCB Assembly Outputs
The right PCB assembly outputs turn a finished design into a buildable product. This article covers the essential manufacturing files and DFA considerations that help ensure assemblers have the information they need for accurate, reliable production.
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Holistic Engineering Management in Electronic Design
This webinar explores how engineering leaders can gain greater visibility and control across complex electronic design workflows. Discover how connected processes and centralized design data help teams reduce risk, improve collaboration, and deliver projects on time.
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PCB Design Variants: Managing Multiple PCBA Versions
Product variations often require different component populations, alternate parts, or configuration settings while keeping the underlying PCB design unchanged. This article explains how structured variant management keeps these differences organized and ensures each configuration has the correct BOM and manufacturing outputs.
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8 Common DFM Problems PCB Design Rules Catch Before Fab
Preventing DFM problems starts before fabrication not during the fab review. This article covers eight common PCB manufacturing issues and the design rules that help engineers identify and resolve them early.
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What is a Multi-CAD Environment? Advantages and Best Practices
Different CAD tools shouldn't mean disconnected teams. Learn how Multi-CAD workflows help engineers review designs, collaborate across disciplines, and catch mechanical or sourcing issues before they become costly redesigns.
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Deliver Production-Ready Multiboard PCBs Faster with Manufacturing-Driven Design
This article explores how manufacturing-driven design can help teams validate multiboard products before they reach the factory. It highlights how early checks of interconnects, harnesses, mechanical fit, sourcing, and manufacturing data can reduce late-stage changes and accelerate production readiness.
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Stop Chasing Signatures: How Automated Design Sign-offs Accelerate Release Cycles
Automated design sign-offs can eliminate much of the administrative friction surrounding hardware approvals. This article explores how in-context reviews, structured workflows, and automated traceability help teams accelerate release cycles while maintaining control.
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Flexible Circuits in Assembly: What PCB Designers Don’t See Until It’s Too Late
Flexible circuits introduce unique assembly challenges that aren't always visible during PCB design, from panel instability and component movement to thermal distortion during reflow. This article explains how design decisions around stiffeners, placement, panelization, and materials can improve assembly yield and reduce costly rework.
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Requirements Management Lessons Learned: The S-80 Submarine Program
Fixing one design problem can sometimes create another you didn't see coming. This article uses the S-80 submarine program to show how better requirements traceability can help teams spot hidden impacts before they turn into expensive rework.
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Trust Your BOM: Ensuring Design Data Integrity in Fast-Paced Hardware Projects
A BOM is only valuable if everyone can trust the data it contains. This article shows how connected BOM management helps teams eliminate errors, improve collaboration, and keep fast-moving hardware projects on schedule.
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The Best PCB Design Rules System Keeps Your Board Error Free
PCB design rules are the foundation of every successful layout. This article explores how defining and managing constraints helps engineers improve design accuracy, simplify verification, and deliver manufacturing-ready PCBs with confidence.
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