Consider these 5 free but loaded offerings in a recent update to the best PCB design software platforms. If you Google “design software for printed circuit boards”, you’ll get close to 2 million hits ...

KiCAD EDA is a free, open-source, and cross-platform electronic design automation suite. This software contains three different modules including Schematic Editor, PCB Layout, and 3D Viewer. Schematic ...

Advanced Circuits has released version 3.2 of its free professional-grade PCB design software, PCB Artist™, the most active PCB software on Downloads.com with over 265,000 downloads. Since its first ...

SAN DIEGO--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Altium LLC (ASX: ALU) announced today that it has launched Altium Education, a free online curriculum and certification program for college and university students ...

Siemens Mentor group now offers a free version of its HyperLynx design-rule-checking software for checking printed circuit boards using the latest high-speed serial interfaces. Mentor, a Siemens ...

Digi-Key is offering two new PCB design tools as part of its collaboration with Mentor, now part of Siemens. The tools, which provide schematic entry and layout for PCB design, are available in two ...

RS Components has unveiled Version 3 of DesignSpark PCB, its free professional standard PCB design software. New user-requested functionality enables the PCB design software to be used with Spice ...

In PCB design, design for manufacturing (DfM) is all about correcting mistakes after reviewing a PCB layout. We then devise corrective actions to fix those mistakes and improve procedures to make ...

True 3-D interconnects and packaging. Rigid PCBs are inherently 2-D. Rigid-flex, however, allows you to fold, bend and twist ...