My first experience with computerized printed-circuit-board (PCB) design was in 1978 when I acquired two Racal-Redac Mini systems for my service bureau, Computer Circuits. What memories remain ...

Preferring to spend hours typing code instead of graphically pushing traces around in a PCB layout tool, [James Bowman] over at ExCamera Labs has developed CuFlow, a method for routing PCBs in Python.

Component placement must be compact and analog signal routing should be short ... designing sensitive analog circuits and high-speed digital circuits in a PCB design. Many contract manufacturers ...