KiCad, a free schematic capture and printed circuit board (PCB) design tool, comes packed with features usually found only in commercial CAD tools. One of these tools is the Design Rule Checker that ...

PCB Design Best Practices: Six things to consider when transferring a PCB schematic to layout. All the examples in this article are developed using the NI Multisim design environment, however the same ...

If you can't pick up the schematic and know (at a moderately high level) what the design is supposed to do and how it is supposed to do it, then you have not really done your job as the designer. The ...

Abstract: In electronic design automation (EDA), printed circuit board (PCB) design plays a crucial role. Ensuring the reliability of the PCB design tool chain is essential, as bugs in the tool chain ...

KiCad is a free and open-source software suite for Electronic Design Automation (EDA). It allows users to design schematics, create PCB layouts, generate manufacturing files, and even perform 3D ...

o Launch EAGLE and start a new project for your PCB design. o Within the project, create a new schematic file. Add Components: o Utilize the built-in libraries in EAGLE or create custom libraries if ...

[Hans Rosenberg] knows a thing or two about RF PCB design and has provided a three-part four-part video demonstration of some solid rules of thumb. We will cover the first part here and leave the ...

A lot of attention—and hype—has focused on bringing traditional office-productivity programs, such as the OpenOffice.org suite, to Linux. However, another important—and far less-hyped—area where Linux ...