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Flux Adds Automatic Impedance Control For Simplifying High-Speed Design

Flux Adds Automatic Impedance Control For Simplifying High-Speed Design

The company’s new automated impedance control feature aims to make high-speed design accessible for engineers of all levels.


News May 25, 2023 by Jeff Child
Burning Man Maker, Music Mogul, and PCB Revolutionary—Flux CEO Matthias Wagner

Burning Man Maker, Music Mogul, and PCB Revolutionary—Flux CEO Matthias Wagner

Matthias Wagner, co-founder and CEO of Flux, has had one of the most unusual and interesting career paths. And now, he is inviting Moore’s Lobby listeners to come use Flux as they try to make the PCB design “tool of your dreams.”


Flux Adds AI Design Assistant to Its Browser-based PCB Design Tool

Flux Adds AI Design Assistant to Its Browser-based PCB Design Tool

Flux is launching an integrated AI-powered “chatbot-like” design assistant that’s integrated into its web-based online PCB design tool.


News Apr 27, 2023 by Jeff Child
Cadence Launches Cloud AI Tool to Shrink PCB Placement and Routing Times

Cadence Launches Cloud AI Tool to Shrink PCB Placement and Routing Times

The company has rolled out its Allegro X AI technology, designed to automate PCB placement and routing—claiming to enable 10x shorter turnaround times.


News Apr 07, 2023 by Jeff Child
PCB Stackup Basics and Using Fusion 360’s Stackup Manager

PCB Stackup Basics and Using Fusion 360’s Stackup Manager

The way your PCB’s layers are arranged has huge implications for the board’s efficiency. Learn the basics of PCB stackups, and how Fusion 360’s stackup tool helps manage your PCB’s layering strategy.


Exclusive—Flux Ascends Out of Beta With Its Collaborative PCB Design Tool

Exclusive—Flux Ascends Out of Beta With Its Collaborative PCB Design Tool

On a mission to take the “hard” out of hardware design, today Flux is officially launching its namesake online PCB design tool.


News Feb 22, 2023 by Jake Hertz
Learn the Fundamentals of CAM: Manufacturing Your PCB

Learn the Fundamentals of CAM: Manufacturing Your PCB

Computer-aided manufacturing (CAM) is a critical part of modern electronics production. It’s helpful to understand the process and how advanced CAM processing tools enable a smooth transition to the production phase.


JITX Aims to Provide Superpowers to Circuit Design Engineers

JITX Aims to Provide Superpowers to Circuit Design Engineers

How do you begin by building world-record robots and end up trying to revolutionize the electronics industry? Dr. Duncan Haldane, co-founder and CEO of JITX, retraces his fascinating career path and describes their vision for a better circuit design process.


CELUS Brings Modern Concepts and AI to Circuit and PCB Design—Exclusive

CELUS Brings Modern Concepts and AI to Circuit and PCB Design—Exclusive

CELUS aims to revolutionize the electronics industry with a new design flow for circuit design and PCB development. All About Circuits met with CEO Tobias Pohl to discuss their tools and future plans.


News Dec 08, 2022 by Dale Wilson
Thermal Management for Designs Using Discrete Semiconductor Devices

Thermal Management for Designs Using Discrete Semiconductor Devices

There are several effective ways to manage the high temperatures of today’s discrete semiconductors in your design. Simulation techniques are vital for measuring how well each approach is working.


Passing Storm or New Normal? How Should We Think of Today’s Electronics Supply Chain?

Passing Storm or New Normal? How Should We Think of Today’s Electronics Supply Chain?

Join leading electronics industry experts from Mouser, XTG, and MacroFab as we discuss the state of the supply chain, the hottest trends in business and technology, where we are headed, and how we can all work together more efficiently.


Rotary Position Sensor from onsemi Puts a New Spin on Inductive Sensing

Rotary Position Sensor from onsemi Puts a New Spin on Inductive Sensing

Using its patented technology, onsemi has brought inductive position sensing into the high-speed, high-accuracy realm. The device enables easy-to-implement PCB sensor designs.


News Nov 16, 2022 by Jeff Child
Siemens Touts its Online PCBflow as “DFM for the Rest of Us”

Siemens Touts its Online PCBflow as “DFM for the Rest of Us”

Setting out to break down the barriers to design-for-manufacturing (DFM) for small design groups, Siemens is positioning its PCBflow service as an online DFM collaboration space.


News Nov 15, 2022 by Jeff Child
Startup Knocks Down Chiplet Hurdles with High-performance Link

Startup Knocks Down Chiplet Hurdles with High-performance Link

Eliyan is emerging from stealth mode, unveiling the successful tapeout of its high-performance UCIe-compliant die-to-die interconnect technology in 5 nm process.


News Nov 08, 2022 by Jake Hertz
Using 3D Electronic Component Models to Synch PCB and Enclosure Designs

Using 3D Electronic Component Models to Synch PCB and Enclosure Designs

Designing PCBs and enclosures in parallel is the best way to ensure high-quality system designs. Learn how to use Fusion 360 to marry the 2D domain of PCB design with the 3D domain of mechanical enclosure design.


Your Back-to-School Guide to All About Circuits’ Educational Resources

Your Back-to-School Guide to All About Circuits’ Educational Resources

For students back in college for their Fall semester—and anyone who needs a refresher—here’s the lowdown on our top-notch textbooks, technical articles, and calculators for EE studies.


News Oct 12, 2022 by Jeff Child
PCB Layout Challenges—Improve Your Switched-mode Power Supply Designs

PCB Layout Challenges—Improve Your Switched-mode Power Supply Designs

Switched-mode power supplies (SMPS) appear simple to route on your PCB, but are they? This article identifies two noise sources and simple fixes to improve your EMC performance.


Altium Education Brings Free PCB Design Courses to Students

Altium Education Brings Free PCB Design Courses to Students

Altium Education guides college students from the basics of PCB design through developing their first printed circuit board.


News Mar 22, 2022 by Arjun Nijhawan
With a New Factory on the Way, Nano Dimension Pushes for Widespread 3D-printed PCBs

With a New Factory on the Way, Nano Dimension Pushes for Widespread 3D-printed PCBs

Multi-layer PCBs are known for saving size and weight. Now, 3D printing these boards may be an option for more designers on a large scale.


News Feb 02, 2022 by Lianne Frith
Altium Unveils the First “Design With Manufacturing” Platform

Altium Unveils the First “Design With Manufacturing” Platform

Announced at AltiumLive, the new Altimade application brings designers, supply chain experts, and manufacturers all on the same continuous digital thread.


News Jan 27, 2022 by Jake Hertz