Charles Pfeil is an Engineering Director in the Systems Design Division at Mentor Graphics. My first experience with computerized printed-circuit-board (PCB) design was in 1978 when I acquired two ...

For the math-phobic out there, don't let the word scare you. An "algorithm" is nothing more than a set of instructions, just like a recipe or how-to book. And the Internet relies on many, many ...

Engineers use a redistribution layer (RDL) in flip-chip designs to redistribute I/O pads to bump pads without changing the I/O pad placement. However, traditional routing capacity may be insufficient ...