PCB Design

PC board design requires a combination of electrical and mechanical design skills. We have taken many 100's of boards through design, layout, fabrication and assembly. From low cost consumer products to high performance 14 layer single board computers we can build it to work the first time.

Our in house PC board capture and layout tools are OrCAD, Eagle and PADS. Additionally, we work closely with local contract fabrication and assembly houses to build the final product to your specifications.

PC Board performance and cost design considerations include:

  Single or double sided
  Thermal - placement, airflow, mechanical
  Optimal routing layers
  Power/ground/RF/Analog plane(s)
  Mechanical - Connectors / backplane
  Clock / transmission line / RF routing
  Series or parallel (AC or thevenin) termination
  Layers vs. cost
  Analog / Digital trace separation
  Test point layout
  Debug LED's, scope test points/grounds
  Crosstalk mitigation
  EMI
  FCC, UL certifications

Tools

PADS

Eagle

HyperLynx

Allegro

OrCAD