PCB Prototyping Is Much Easier Than Before With This PCB Printer
https://www.electronics-lab.com/pcb-prototyping-much-easier-pcb-printer/
3D printers and other prototyping tools are making it easier and simpler to build prototypes and test ideas. Building circuit boards is fun but difficult. While you could do it at home with some etchant and some clear plastic, PCB printer hopes to make the entire process much faster and easier. The success of these […]
New parts library for Mentor PADS & DX Designer accelerates PCB design
https://www.electronics-lab.com/new-parts-library-mentor-pads-dx-designer-accelerates-pcb-design/
Designers can build circuit boards faster with millions of symbols & footprints on SnapEDA. July 18, 2017 – SAN FRANCISCO – Mentor, a Siemens business, and SnapEDA, the Internet’s first parts library for circuit board design, are announcing new support for Mentor PADS® and DX Designer on SnapEDA. Whether building satellites or medical devices, hardware […]
How to Route Differential Pairs
https://www.electronics-lab.com/route-differential-pairs/
Sam Sattel @ autodesk.com discuss about the benefits of differential signals and how to route them in Eagle. If you’re designing a high speed PCB, then chances are you’re working with the latest and most powerful technologies, like HDMI, USB3.0, Ethernet, or DDR. But with great power comes great responsibility! As a result, you’ll likely […]
EAGLE Autorouter, When & How To Use
https://www.electronics-lab.com/eagle-autorouter-use/
Designing a PCB layout is a work of engineering art, includes placing components and routing them through different layers. So when you assign the same job for different engineers, each one would make it in his own way. But sometimes when working on a complex design some help may be necessary to finish the work. […]
PCB Droid – First Mobile PCB Designer App
https://www.electronics-lab.com/pcb-droid-first-mobile-pcb-designer-app/
The applications available nowadays serve our everyday life well. Would it be the need of our entertainment, business life or lifestyle. However, there is one special field where we could face a serious shortcoming and it is the engineering field. I’ve come across a demand through forums specialized in electronics for a mobile application, designing […]
Panelization – using GerberPanelizer on Windows
https://www.electronics-lab.com/panelization-using-gerberpanelizer-windows/
Arsenijs over at Hackaday.io explains how to panelize PCBs using GerberPanelizer on Windows. He writes: This tutorial was done on Windows. Authors claim it could also be used on Linux by using Mono, but I haven’t tried and don’t understand a lot about Mono to see what could be done. I am switching to Linux nowadays, so […]
Drag soldering SMD parts with a flux pen
https://www.electronics-lab.com/drag-soldering-smd-parts-flux-pen/
This video shows how to drag solder SMD parts with a high density package (in this video a Xilinx XC9572XL with VQFP 64 pin package is used). Drag soldering SMD parts with a flux pen – [Link]
PCB Design for manufacture [PDF]
https://www.electronics-lab.com/pcb-design-manufacture-pdf/
SeeedStudio has published a PCB design manual to help makers and engineers design better PCBs. The guide covers many aspects of PCB design for manufacture summarizing the experience of their PCB service over the last 9 years. PCB Design for manufacture – [Link]
Free PADS PCB packages from Mentor/Digi-Key
https://www.electronics-lab.com/free-pads-pcb-packages-mentordigi-key/
by Graham Prophet @ eedesignnewseurope.com: Two versions of the PADS software package (by Mentor, now a Siemens business) have been made available through distributor Digi-Key. Positioned as design software for “the aspiring innovator” both the free and the $499 versions include access to parts libraries and to a circuit simulator. Free PADS PCB packages from […]
Printed Two-Dimensional Transistors
https://www.electronics-lab.com/printed-two-dimensional-transistors/
Researchers from AMBER (Advanced Materials and BioEngineering Research) and Trinity College (Dublin), together with the TU Delft have succeeded in producing printed transistors, which are made solely from two-dimensional nano materials. These materials have characteristics with much promise and, importantly, can also be produced very cheaply. Possible applications for this procedure are food packaging with […]