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Today’s PCB designers and layout engineers often need to put on their simulation hat to learn more about the products they build. Simulations are a great way to understand critical behavior of your system before you do a prototyping run or design a downstream circuit. When you need to perform simulations, you need models for components, and simulation models often need to be shared with other team members at the project level or component level....

PCB designs seldomly exist on their own; an enclosure usually accompanies them. Even in today’s MCAD-integrated tool landscape, many designers ensure proper fitment of an enclosure and their PCB using a basic, outdated approach consisting of simple file exchanges. Altium Designer uses a modern 3D rendering engine that allows users to directly bring their enclosures into their PCB workspace. Check for proper fitment between the board and enclosure...

In this article, Zachariah Peterson, founder of Northwest Engineering Solutions, discusses how his company successfully collaborates with mechanical engineers outside of his firm. He shares practices and tools that have been most useful along the way. Judy Warner: Zach, as an engineer and the owner of Northwest Engineering Solutions (NWES), what challenges do you see as most prevalent and problematic for design engineers when it comes to...

When I was first getting started with PCB design in modern CAD tools, I took a pretty simplistic view of grounding in my board. Coming into this industry as a physicist, I’m trained to think of things in terms of reference potentials, image charges, and any number of other terms from electromagnetic theory. Once you’ve gone through the effort to produce your first PCB, and you find aberrant noise and EMI in your design, the importance of clearly...

PCB designs seldomly exist on their own; an enclosure usually accompanies them. Even in today’s MCAD-integrated tool landscape, many designers ensure proper fitment of an enclosure and their PCB using a basic, outdated approach consisting of simple file exchanges. Altium Designer uses a modern 3D rendering engine that allows users to directly bring their enclosures into their PCB workspace. Check for proper fitment between the board and...

PCB designs seldomly exist on their own; an enclosure usually accompanies them. Even in today’s MCAD-integrated tool landscape, many designers ensure proper fitment of an enclosure and their PCB using a basic, outdated approach consisting of simple file exchanges. Altium Designer uses a modern 3D rendering engine that allows users to directly bring their enclosures into their PCB workspace. Check for proper fitment between the board and...

How would you like to access scalable, Python-programmable quantum computing resources through the cloud? Canadian startup Xanadu recently announced a chip that enables this type of accessibility in quantum computing. What’s more interesting is how this type of chip will fit into the quantum computing ecosystem and how it leverages photonics as for manipulating qubits in a quantum computer. Although 2021 is gearing up to be the year of AI...

One of the most difficult and frustrating things to arise when traveling to a foreign country is the language barrier. Communicating a simple greeting can sometimes seem like a big hassle. The same thing is true for different CAD tools. When your tools aren’t speaking the same language, you’re going to run into problems. Bridge this gap by building out your component libraries with everything it takes to truly define a component, including 3D...

One of the most difficult and frustrating things to arise when traveling to a foreign country is the language barrier. Communicating a simple greeting can sometimes seem like a big hassle. The same thing is true for different CAD tools. When your tools aren’t speaking the same language, you’re going to run into problems. Bridge this gap by building out your component libraries with everything it takes to truly define a component, including 3D...