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In this episode, we are very excited to have Jesus Zozaya, CEO of Voltera, and Matt Ewertowski, product manager at Voltera. We will discuss pushing the boundaries in electronics design through printed electronics. Join us and together let’s discover the many benefits of printed electronics from expedited prototyping, proof of concept, and academic research. Listen to Podcast: Download this episode (right-click and save) Watch the Video: ...

Click here to jump to the viewer embed and browse this project If your board includes an ADC, then your board qualifies as a mixed-signal system and it will need some particular layout practices to prevent excess noise on analog lines. ADCs are normally non-isolated components, but they also come in an isolated variety, where the component provides galvanic isolation between the analog and digital sides. In this project, I’m going to show an...

Travis Kelly, President, and CEO of Isola Group returns to continue the conversation on the CHIPS Act. In this episode, we will focus on North America's and neighboring countries' readiness and technological capability to build a resilient and secure domestic supply chain. We will also briefly discuss some initiatives to attract the young generation and to bring awareness to the “cool” technology behind the PCB industry. Listen to Podcast: D...

Printed circuit board designers have an exciting new tool to use to help solve complicated routing challenges.  Fabricators serving the low to medium-volume, high-mix markets are now offering Ultra-HDI technology,  fabricating circuit layers with semi-additive processes.  This gives PCB designers a number of key benefits:  the ability to route with 25-micron trace and space with highly precise traces, the ability to use larger feature sizes with...

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Operating behind the scenes of your ECAD software and PCB layout editor is an important dataset that defines the connections between components. This dataset, typically stored in a single file, is known as a netlist. Different CAD systems have different netlist formats, but they play an important function in PCB design software: defining connectivity between components. Netlists Start in the Schematic All netlists are defined at the circuit...

Implementation of a patch antenna in a PCB requires connection to another component or external module. This connection is very often placed as a microstrip line, possibly with a quarter wavelength matching line, such as in patch antenna arrays for advanced wireless systems. There is another method involving an SMA or other coax connector, but not on the same layer as the antenna. Coaxial-fed patch antennas involve the use of a patch antenna on...

Having Steve Sandler in this episode is such a treat! He talks about his presentations at the upcoming DesignCon 2023 in Santa Clara and; gives us a deep dive into some very complex engineering topics, including measuring the PDN Flatness and the state space model. Listen to the Podcast: Download this episode Watch this Episode: Show Highlights: Steve Sandler is in the running for Engineer of the Year along with Ken Wyatt Steve is doing...