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CAD SOFTWARE
Price vs. Function
Functionality, breadth of features and ease of use top what designers like most about their preferred CAD software. But their biggest concern is not speed; it’s cost.
by Chelsey Drysdale

STANDARDS
IPC-1782: The New Dawn of Electronics Traceability
Traceability is thought of as expensive, complex, unreliable, incomplete, a threat to business and different for everyone. Can a new standard for electronics overcome those hurdles?
by Michael Ford

PCB DESIGN
5 Common Mistakes in Board Design
From wrong component selection to thermal imbalance, many of the most frequent yield spoilers are fixable.
by Arbel Nissan

TRANSITIONS
In Memoriam
Remembering those who left us in 2016.