In-circuit test can exercise components individually. Boundary-scan test can evaluate components as well as interconnects. Functional test can test for faults that may have escaped other stages while ...

Cloud tools like Altium 365 are gold for PCB design collaboration. They unify schematics, layouts, and BOMs in one hub. A 2025 Gartner report says cloud adoption speeds design cycles by 21%. No more ...

SAN MATEO, Calif — Consolidation in the printed-circuit board design tool industry has radically altered the landscape for these venerable products, to the point where some industry watchers are ...

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Several tools now combine MCAD and ECAD in one simulation platform to facilitate analysis of ever-more-complex boards, as well as reduce overhead and potential errors. Higher-speed connections and ...

Digi-Key is to offer what it calls “professional-class” PCB design tools in collaboration with EDA company Mentor Graphics. The three new tools are Designer Layout, a schematic capture tool called ...

We live in a golden age of free Electronic Design Automation (EDA) tools. It wasn’t that long ago that an engineering workstation was an expensive piece of hardware running very expensive software ...

Gain insight into the latest microcontrollers, SBCs, and FPGAs with augmented-reality interaction using the latest "Guide to Boards" from Digi-Key and Make Magazine. Additive and subtractive ...

We see a lot of projects using Eagle for the schematics and PCB layout. There are a few that use Kicad, but we hear very little about other alternatives. Recently, [Limpkin] has been working with ...

RS Components has announced the latest release of DesignSpark PCB, its free downloadable PCB design tool, which now can draw the approximate routing path and allow algorithms to draw the best tracks ...