Combining the knowledge of an engineer, the skill of a printed circuit board (PCB) designer and the power of an autorouter, Wilsonville, Ore.-based Mentor Graphics Corp. has taken the wraps off of a ...

Borrowing concepts from IC design, Cadence Design Systems this week (March 26) is introducing the Global Route Environment Technology for its Allegro pc-board design system. It combines a graphical ...

Walking around the alley at Hackaday Supercon 2024, we noticed an interesting project was getting quite a bit of attention, so we got nearer for a close-up. The ‘Circuit Graver’ by [Zach Fredin] is an ...

The advent of cheap and accessible one-off PCB production has been one of the pivotal moments for electronic experimenters during the last couple of decades. Perhaps a few still etch their own boards, ...

Mentor Graphics has released an automated routing version of its XtremePCB design tool that can be distributed over up to 15 CPUs to cut design cycle times. XtremeAR is aimed at the large, dense ...