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Ever dreamt of designing your own open-source laptop? For a while now I´ve been fascinated by this idea. As you can probably imagine, this is a monumental task that will require a lot of time and resources. Working alone on a project of this size makes matters even more difficult. So, why embark on such an adventure–especially with a product design that has already been manufactured and sold by the millions for years on end? {"preview_thumbnail"...

The globalization of the electronics supply chain has been a widely discussed topic, and having Andrew Hupert, an esteemed supply chain consultant, in this episode is incredibly timely. In this insightful discussion, Andrew sheds light on Mexico's distinctive edge in electronics production. Furthermore, he provides us with a comprehensive comparison of the logistical aspects between Mexico and China's production processes. Listen to the Podcast...

Altium, a leading provider of electronics design software, has announced the launch of a dedicated region of the Altium 365 cloud platform designed for regulated companies and organizations handling sensitive data. Located on US soil and exclusively managed by US persons in the AWS GovCloud region, Altium 365 GovCloud helps organizations ensure compliance with various US government regulations by choosing an Altium 365 workspace in the GovCloud...

When we talk about embedded, we aren’t always talking about embedded software. Components can also be embedded in a PCB by placing a cavity region in the internal layers. Cavity regions in a PCB allow component placement, filling with copper for an embedded heatsink, or inset placement below a surface layer in a PCB. If you want to free up space on surface layers, or just lower the profile of your PCBA, cavities are one option that could help. ...

Short circuits are not a common defect, but the presence of a short circuit can ruin a portion of a device or cause a total failure. Short circuits arise when conductors are bridged, resulting in intermittent problems or permanent failure. They can arise in a PCB during fabrication due to design errors, or they can occur after a product has been placed into the field for a significant period of time. If you locate a short circuit in your...

Most startups that are still at the bootstrap or seed funding stage have very little money to burn. Some hardware startups consist of a few designers investing their life savings into a new product, and they don't have the luxury of infinite prototyping to build a working system. Because hardware comes with so many constraints, hardware startup founders need to get their budgets in place early in order to convice investors to contribute money...

ChatGPT has quickly become the killer app for AI, and it’s made generative AI extremely easy to access and use. So of course we had to ask, can you use ChatGPT for PCB design tasks? Does it provide useful answers or results when doing some technical research? We’ll look at what the system can and can’t do in this article. In the forthcoming guide, I want to stress that I am just using ChatGPT in its native form (Pro subscription, but no plugins)...

Do you want to design better products? Effective and efficient collaboration between mechanical and electrical design is crucial. This whitepaper is for executives and designers whose companies design electromechanical products with printed circuit boards (PCBs) and who are looking for ways to increase the quality of their designs while eliminating wasted effort. Mechanical and PCB designers share in the success of the final design. The problem...

In an impedance matching network, the goal is to tailor the resistance, capacitance, and inductance of the circuit such that power or voltage transfer to a load is maximized. Controlling these factors around an impedance matching circuit in a PCB is all about placement and sizing of traces and ground, as well as matching these to the pads on your discrete components. To eliminate additional parasitics from the pad size and traces connecting to...