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Posts tagged with 'Traceability'

3 Jan, 2013

Jim Martens This Tip is Shared by Yan Killy, Technical Marketing Engineer There are technology and fabrication reasons why designers on occasion need to change the width of a trace during interactive routing.  In PADS, you can easily accomplish this with settings in Design Rules and the use of Modeless Commands. Using Design Rules you set can up the trace width range for all nets or one net in particular. In … Read More

Traceability, Layout and Routing

25 Oct, 2012

Randall Myers In case you didn’t get the opportunity to go to PCB West 2012 in September, my favorite moment was the fabrication capability update from StreamLine circuits. Overall, the crowd was already noticeably more upbeat and energetic than the last couple years. But in a room of over a hundred nerds wearing jeans and button-down shirts, there were outbreaks of murmuring excitement when the latest board cross-sections … Read More

High Density Interconnects, Traceability