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By Nihit Bajaj with 英飞凌

USB charging has become the de-facto method for charging several portable devices we use these days, most notably smartphones, notebooks, and tablets.

Interestingly, the original USB standard, introduced way back in the mid-1990s, had nothing to do with charging. It was only intended for data transfer between the peripheral and the host. As the technology became more mainstream, USB-power delivery (USB-PD) protocols for battery charging were added to the specification in 2007. Read more.

New White Paper: Optimizing PCB Design and Analysis for High-Speed Connector Interfaces

As high-speed connectors become more prevalent in various applications, PCB design teams face the challenge of optimizing the interface between high-speed connectors and PCBs with varying stack-ups and route densities, which can create crosstalk on high-speed signals.

To succeed, design teams need to address this problem in its entirety, using highly accurate 3D finite element method (FEM) field solvers. The complexity of these designs requires speed, capacity, and efficient memory consumption that has not traditionally been available to users of 3D FEM tools. This application note presents an innovative workflow using Cadence?? Allegro?? PCB Designer and Cadence Clarity?? 3D Solver streamlines the engineering time and effort required to address the challenges of optimizing high-speed connector interfaces within PCBs.? Read the white paper.

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