MEP EP#317: When an Alien Craps

<h4><a href="https://macrofab.com/blog/mep-ep317-when-an-alien-craps/">MEP EP#317: When an Alien Craps</a><br></h4><h4>Autodesk Eagle DRC Problems</h4> <ul> <li aria-level="2">Via in Pad Detection</li> <li aria-level="2">Is there a EDA tool that actually detects this? <ul> <li aria-level="2">Diptrace</li> <li aria-level="2">Eagle</li> <li aria-level="2">Altium</li> </ul> </li> <li aria-level="2">FAB3000 <ul> <li aria-level="2">MacroFab's Internal tool set does not</li> </ul> </li> <li aria-level="2">What do we do about this as Engineers? <ul> <li aria-level="2">Write our own tools of course!</li> </ul> </li> </ul> <h4>Datasheet and Schematic Woes</h4> <ul> <li aria-level="2">TI CD4053</li> <li aria-level="2">The actual function of the chip was just not in the datasheet</li> <li aria-level="2">One typo made the datasheet unusable <ul> <li aria-level="3">Old datasheets strikes again!</li> <li aria-level="2">This has been fixed sort of</li> </ul> </li> <li aria-level="2">What matters when you read a datasheet?</li> </ul>