Electronic Design

Motor-Driver PCB Layout Guidelines (Part 2)

6. SOT-23 and SOIC packages are typically used in low-power motor drivers. Standard leaded packages, like SOIC and SOT-23 packages, are often used for low-power motor drivers (Fig. 6). To maximize the ...
Hackaday

Working With BGAs: Design And Layout

The Ball Grid Array, or BGA package is no longer the exclusive preserve of large, complex chips on computer motherboards: today even simple microcontrollers are available with those little solder ...
Electronics Weekly

Mentor PADS tool gets parts library with 3D models

Mentor has teamed up with online components library SnapEDA, which now supports its PADS and DX Designer PCB design tools. Mentor has teamed up with online components library SnapEDA, which now ...
EDN

6 tips for choosing PCB components

PCB Design Best Practices: Six things to consider when making PCB component choices based on part footprints. All the examples in this article are developed using the NI Multisim design environment, ...
Hackaday

Creating A PCB In Everything: Eagle, Part 1

For the first in a series of posts describing how to make a PCB, we’re going with Eagle. Eagle CAD has been around since the days of DOS, and has received numerous updates over the years. Until KiCad ...
Electronic Design

Motor-Driver PCB Layout Guidelines (Part 1)

In Part 1, we’ll discuss some general recommendations for designing PCBs that use motor-driver ICs, which require special cooling techniques to handle the power dissipation. Printed-circuit-board (PCB ...