Printed circuit board (PCB) design is a complex endeavor, but it’s more manageable when you have access to the right tools. Numerous companies now offer PCB design tools that allow collaboration ...

RS Components has unveiled the latest release of DesignSpark PCB, the company's professional software for schematic capture and PCB layout. DesignSpark PCB Version 5.0 integrates two additional ...

KiCAD EDA is a free, open-source, and cross-platform electronic design automation suite. This software contains three different modules including Schematic Editor, PCB Layout, and 3D Viewer. Schematic ...

Several browser-based PCB design tools have emerged in the past couple of years, yet the vast majority of designers are still using the same desktop applications that have dominated the EDA industry ...

Out of curiosity, I redrew the Supercon Vectorscope badge schematics in KiCad last year. As you might suspect, going from PCB to schematic is opposite to the normal design flow of KiCad and most other ...

A significant challenge in power supply design is creation of the PCB layout. Until today, design engineers relied on application notes, manual copying of reference layouts and their own judgment to ...

Eventually, almost every EE must design a PCB, which isn’t something that’s taught in school. Yet engineers, technicians, and even novice PCB designers can create high-quality PCBs for any and every ...

The plating type is usually immaterial to the footprint geometry but is often incorporated somewhere in the vendor part ...

I was looking over the week’s posts on Hackaday – it’s part of my job after all – and this gem caught my eye: a post about how to make your own RP2040 development board from scratch. And I’ll admit ...