PCB Design Software Options For Your High-Speed PCB Project
By A Mughees • Sep 10, 2024Learn how to choose the best PCB design software for your high-speed PCB design projects.
High speed printed circuit board design involves the creation of PCBs that can support high speed signaling and data transmission. These PCBs are used in a variety of applications, including telecommunications, data centers, and high performance computing systems. High speed PCB design requires a careful balance of electrical and mechanical considerations to ensure that the PCB can support the required data rates and signaling levels, while also meeting other performance and reliability requirements.
There are several key considerations in high speed PCB design, including:
To help designers better understand the challenges involved in high-speed PCB design and routing, we have compiled a set of free resources from our blog. Feel free to browse and contact us to begin your next high-speed PCB design.
Learn how to choose the best PCB design software for your high-speed PCB design projects.
Discover how copper roughness affects signal integrity in PCBs, influencing factors like skin effect losses and dielectric constant.
Transmission lines in a PCB exhibit low-pass filter behavior due to transmission line losses and load capacitance.
Digital transmission lines in a high-speed PCB do not require stitching vias, but they do have important uses.
Learn about Rogers PCBs and whether you need these materials in your layer stack.
Learn about the design challenges and processes in PCB design for an FPGA SoM and its carrier board.
Differential crosstalk can occur in high-speed PCBs, creating noise coupling between interconnects.
This is how you perform PCB impedance calculations without 3D full-wave field solvers.
We examine some guidelines and best practices in differential pair routing in this article.
Learn more about the difference between microstrip vs. stripline in your PCB and when it’s best to use each.
Learn all about designing with PAM-4 signals and components in your high speed PCB layout and embedded systems.
Learn how to calculate transmission line input impedance and how it relates back to S11, reflection coefficients, and return loss.
Read our guide to learn more about high speed backplane design for aerospace and defense electronics.
We've compiled everything you need to know about condutor losses and dielectric losses in microstrip lines.
Read our guide if you want to learn about high speed signal integrity in your PCB layout.
Here’s how to ensure impedance control during BGA escape routing in your HDI PCB.
The fiber weave effect is known to cause skew, but it causes other signal integrity problems as well.
Here’s your guide to PCB trace length matching in high speed design.
Low-Dk PCB material substrates have some advantages and disadvantages. Here’s what you need to know when selecting a PCB substrate material.
Here’s what you need to know about transmission line dispersion and managing losses in your next PCB.
We've compiled the best high speed board design guidelines for advanced digital circuit boards and mixed-signal systems.
Here's how to optimize PCB trace width for impedance control.
SerDes design brings multiple signal integrity problems to high speed designs.