PCB design
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February 06, 2023
Preparing S-parameters/Touchstone® Model for High-Speed PCB Analysis

Learn the history of S-parameters/Touchstone, its advantages and disadvantages, and how to use an automated tool to overcome common challenges in your PCB design.

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September 20, 2021
What PDN Target Impedance Means for PCB Designers

PDN impedance is becoming more and more of a headache for PCB designers as IC vendors are defining increasingly tight so-called ‘target impedance limits’. This article explains what PDN impedance means for PCB designers and what to pay particular attention to.

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November 05, 2020
Printed circuit board shot into space

Since 2012, the FED has been honoring outstanding designers with the PCB design award. One of this year's winning designs was even into space.

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April 17, 2020
Working Remotely with CR-8000 Tools

During the current COVID-19 pandemic situation, we are all experiencing changes in our day-to-day lives. While we’re all staying safe at home, we’re now also working at home. At Zuken, we’re working with customers daily to address their business needs.

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March 26, 2020
Multi-board design for applications with different voltages

The benefits of developing all boards of a system concurrently on a single CAD canvas. Stacking PCBs, as opposed to connecting with cables, in multi-board design is a current and highly popular trend, as manufacturing costs are reduced and reliability improved.

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  • Blog
October 17, 2019
Be First to Market with DDR5!

Double Data Rate 5 (DDR5) is the next-generation standard for random-access memory (RAM). The new specification promises to bring chips that have much higher performance than the existing DDR4 modules, as well as lower power consumption. Let us show you how you can be first to market with DDR5!

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August 06, 2019
Tech Tip: Setting Clearance Classes in CR-8000 Design Gateway

When a design requires specific minimum spacing between net classes, these clearance classes can easily be created and assigned in CR-8000 Design Gateway.

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  • Blog
August 01, 2019
6 NEW Routing Enhancements in CR-8000 Design Force 2019

With every software release, you’ll find hundreds of enhancements, and CR-8000 Design Force 2019 is not an exception. Some are flashy and exciting, while others are, well, more utilitarian. But each and every one of them makes the product better. In this post, I’ll review my favorite 6 new routing enhancements in CR-8000 Design Force 2019.

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  • Blog
July 11, 2019
How to Calculate Trace Length for High-speed Signals

To keep a good high-speed signal quality from driver to receiver on a PCB is not an easy task for designers. One of the most challenging issues is managing the propagation delay and relative time delay mismatches. Let me take you through the process...

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May 02, 2019
Shorter Design Cycles with Better ECAD-MCAD Collaboration

Every day, more and more of our lives become connected with IoT technology. With billions of smart products already out there.

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February 26, 2019
Tech Tip: Routing a PCB design in a native 3D Tool

PCB design tools were built on 2D software methods in the 1980s.  Many of today’s design tools still use that 2D code base.  Mechanical tools have moved on to native 3D design. PCB has been stuck more or less in the 2D world.  Extensions to the 2D code base made 2.5D and 3D visualization possible.  But designing in 3D requires the tool to be built on a 3D kernel.

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December 21, 2018
Curved Trunking: New SI Routing Feature for Differential Pairs and Busses in CADSTAR

PCB designers working with advanced and complex designs are constantly pushing the boundaries to satisfy the signal integrity of routed differential pairs and busses. Those who work with flexible and flex-rigid PCB designs are perhaps the most demanding of all. A while ago, the introduction of the curved corner style for routing trunks in CADSTAR made a big difference to this group of users.

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December 18, 2018
Tech Tip: Using Inhibit Layers to Clear Trace Patterns

In this tech tip, we will explore how you can clear a routed trace pattern on multiple conductive layers. Watch our video to go through the steps with us.

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October 02, 2018
Tech Tip: Swap Conductive Layers using Restriction/Block in CR-8000 Design Force

Sometimes, engineering requirements force designers to swap the position of conductive layers in a board stackup. With CR-8000 Design Force, you can do this simply and quickly by using the Restriction/Block functions.

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Sometimes, engineering requirements force designers to swap the position of conductive layers in a board stackup. With CR-8000 Design Force, you c...