This blog is Part 3 in a series that initiates designing prototype circuits from home. Part 1 [1] introduced the concept whereas Part 2 [2] addressed schematic capture (using National Instrument's ...

Back in 2010, Bob Pease sent me a couple pictures of some prototype printed circuit boards (PCBs) he had made in the early 1960s. Pease got to be a great analog engineer because he would hack away at ...

Design is an iterative process. The more quickly you can test ideas and make improvements, the faster you reach the finished product. That's where prototyping comes in. It is an iterative process of ...

The world of the hardware design engineer has changed dramatically in recent years. Designers no longer sit and code RTL in isolation to meet a paper specification, and then wait for a hardware ...