Component Price Comparisons and Cost Selection for Design Processes
Use the right component search engine for component price comparisons during design. Your new design won’t work at all without electronic components. There are plenty of component distributors in the marketplace that compete with each other on price, lead time, and range of component selection. Component price comparisons are often an early part of the […]
Electric Circuit Model Download: Schematics and SPICE Simulation
Each of these components needs a SPICE model if you need to perform simulations. I can’t count the number of times I’ve downloaded component data through my CAD software, only to find there was no SPICE subcircuit model attached to the component data. Circuit simulations from your schematics are a great way to verify your […]
Component Selection in Electronic System Design
My wife makes meticulous grocery shopping lists for us every week and we go to the store each weekend to restock the fridge and pantry. We know exactly what we need when mapping out each week and it causes us to spend less time wandering the aisles in the grocery store. Likewise, before you create […]
Top Four Recommendations for Component Courtyard Management
Your component courtyards are a useful tool for ensuring components have sufficient space between them. This is a critical part of design and assembly; you need to make sure your components have enough space such that they can be hand assembled, arranged with a pick-and-place machine, or wave soldered. Your courtyard information can be easily […]
Maximize Your PCB Design Productivity with New Interactive Reference Designs from Maxim Integrated
How many times have you wanted to leverage a vendors reference design yet the design wasn’t available in a CAD format you could use? Your options are to just start from scratch or invest tedious hours transcribing the design into your CAD tool. Not very exciting prospects right? Vendor reference designs provide a great resource […]
The Key to Universal Libraries, a Conversation with Digi-Key’s Jeremy Purcell
The Key to Universal Libraries, a conversation with Digi-Key’s Jeremy Purcell From selling product out of a car to a global electronic components distributor, Digi-Key has been providing the best possible service to its customers. We sat down with Jeremy Purcell, Senior Digital Product Owner at Digi-Key, to talk about the importance of universal libraries. […]
Ultra Librarian helps GAUL Students Reach Great Heights in Annual Rocket Competition
Groupe aérospatial de l’Université Laval (GAUL) is a multidisciplinary group of students at Université Laval, in Québec Canada, well known for their innovative science and technology projects. Every year since its inception in 1993, GAUL brings together students with interests in engineering, math, and science, to apply their academic knowledge and skills in real world […]
Schematic Best Practices: 5 Tips to get you started
Schematics maintain a visual representation of a circuit, showing all significant components, parts, interconnections, flow, and process by way of standard symbols. The purpose of a schematic is to provide a common reference that can be read by any engineer. As such, schematics should have a certain level of consistency and readability, in order to […]
The Art of Smart Component Decision Making: 5 Aspects to consider when choosing an electronic component for your next project
Engineers today are faced with a lot of responsibility when it comes to PCB design. As part of this responsibility, you are tasked with choosing the right electronic components to include in your designs. Component selection is more than just “does it do what I want it to do”, it involves a larger process of […]