3 Trends Guiding PCB Designs

By Embedded Advisor | Monday, March 09, 2020

Modern PCB designs are thriving on evolving market requirements and advancement in technology.

FREMONT, CA: The emergence of the Printed Circuit Board (PCB) marked a revolution in the semiconductor landscape. Since their invention in 1943, PCBs have transformed significantly. Modern PCBs are multilayered, complex, and compact systems that hardly resemble their earliest versions. Modern PCBs are contributing to almost everything from space shuttles in the outer space to the PCs and smartphones. The growth in demands over the efficiency and speeds of the electronics has led to the rapid and perennial evolution of PCB designs. The future advancements in the sphere of PCBs will largely be motivated by the changing requirements of the electronics world. Here are some of the expected PCB transformational waves that await us.

3D Printing in Electronics

3D printing in electronics is being considered as a radical transformer of the PCB design. 3D printing systems can be leveraged to create 3D circuits by printing a substrate item layer by layer. When matched with the 2D PCB manufacturing, the 3D design facilitates significant advancements in terms of efficiency as well as designs.

PCB Board Cameras

PCB board cameras represent the cameras that can be latched onto the PCB board. Such cameras have made portable photography a reality. The advancements and sophistication of the PCB board can be determined from the fact that the pictures outputted by the board cameras can even be confused with those achieved from a professional camera.

Autoplacers

Autoplacers provide a variation to conventional auto-routers. While the designing of auto-routers is complex and needs time, auto-placers requires considerably less time. Autoplacers couples mechanical and CAD systems and make PCB designing lighter for the manufacturers.

While requirements in the electronics sphere will certainly guide the innovations in the PCB designs, technological advancements will also play a key role.