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Where You Can Learn PCB Design Online If you’ve wanted to learn more about PCB design and how to use CAD tools, it can be difficult to find comprehensive resources online. Now with Upverter Education, you can access a comprehensive set of courses alongside browser-based design tools. Here’s how Upverter Education can help you learn PCB design online. Read Article
OnTrack Newsletter: Online Digital Experience, Trustworthy Part Data, AltiumLive Videos are Here! - November 2020 OnTrack Newsletter November 2020 VOL. 4 No 4 Altium Online Digital Experience: Going “All-In” on Customer Centricity In October, Altium unveiled an all-new Online Digital Experience that now allows anyone to digitally access technical support, account management, make purchases, and connect with us in real-time. Through all of the Altium.com webpages, you can engage with over 130 Altium staff members through our human-monitored chatbot and our Read Article
SnapEDA Google for Electronic Components with Natasha Baker Natasha joins us to discuss the origin of SnapEDA, its free automated part builder, Instabuild, and what transparency means to engineering. Read Article
30:28 Altium Designer 20 Meet The Next Generation Of Easy, Modern, And Powerful It’s time to meet the next generation of Easy, Modern, and Powerful PCB design. Join us during this live webinar Watch Video
Sharing Inside and Outside Your Altium 365 Workspace Forget about sending emails with design data. You can use sharing in Altium 365 to give anyone access to your PCB projects within a web browser. Read Article
How Your Altium 365 Workspace Keeps You Organized If you need to collaborate with multiple users, here’s how to use your Workspace in Altium 365 to organize your projects. Read Article
2020 Holiday Gift Ideas for Your Favorite Engineer Check out our list of the best holiday gifts for engineers in 2020. Read Article
DDR5—What’s New On The Memory Horizon Earlier this year, I wrote an article on the various iterations of double data rate (DDR) memory and, specifically, the differences between DDR3 and DDR4. Following the introduction of the first DDR memory back in 1998, successive iterations of DDR have been delivered to the market always to improve two key features: data bandwidth and data speed. DDR5 is now on the horizon, and it offers significant benefits over the previous version, DDR4. This Read Article
Top 4 Time Wasters in PCB Design Collaboration PCB design collaboration doesn’t have to be difficult when you use the right project management and communication tools. Read Article
Getting Started with Revision Control in Altium 365 Forget about tracking copies of project files, use the revision control tools in Altium 365 to track project revisions, and protect your design data. Read Article
What is a Balun and Does Your RF PCB Need One? Are you wondering what a balun is? Find out more and see where one fits into your RF PCB layout. Read Article
How 2x Thru De-embedding is Used in Interconnect Characterization 2x thru de-embedding is one of many important tasks in high bandwidth interconnect characterization as part of test and measurement. Read Article
The Key Aspects Of PCB Documentation In all of our classes and consulting activities as well as the numerous articles we create, we always stress the importance of PCB documentation. Along with the PCB Fabrication Specification, this documentation is crucial to ensuring that a PCB is built right the first time and every time thereafter. Because the creation of this documentation occurs later during the design process, this step is given short shrift and/or not enough attention. When Read Article
Octopart: Navigating the Complex Landscape Component Data with Confidence Judy Warner: Why do component data, pricing, and availability always seem to take up so much of an electronics engineer's time? Sean Rothwell: There are so many places that data might live, especially pricing and market availability, so if you're an engineer looking for a part to use in a design, there's a good chance you're going to be bouncing around from site to site checking different distributors and manufacturers. Then there's the hurdle of Read Article
Altium Online Digital Experience: Going “All-In” on Customer Centricity Judy Warner: Lawrence, you are working on a new groundbreaking Online Digital Experience that will further advance our focus on customer centricity; tell us about what this is and what it will mean for Altium users. Lawrence Romine: This is very exciting, Judy! As you well know, Altium’s success is built on our focus on the users of our products and services versus a classic value proposition aimed toward executive decision-makers. In our world Read Article
PCIe 5.0 Signal Integrity and Analysis PCIe 5.0 signal integrity follows many trends from other high speed signaling standards. Learn more about this high speed signaling standard in this article. Read Article
Graphene Electronics Might Power Your Next PCB It’s time to ditch the battery, your next PCB might be powered by graphene electronics. Read Article