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Get ready to speed up your design process with new Altium Designer collaboration capabilities. Designing a PCB is a team effort. Engineers must work with customers, manufacturers, and other stakeholders to get the best results. You need help to bring your design to life, even if you're a one-person team. Join us this month's webinar, where we'll discuss what's new in Altium Designer 23, focusing on how you can collaborate like a pro. This...

Get ready to speed up your design process with new Altium Designer collaboration capabilities. Designing a PCB is a team effort. Engineers must work with customers, manufacturers, and other stakeholders to get the best results. You need help to bring your design to life, even if you're a one-person team. Join us this month's webinar, where we'll discuss what's new in Altium Designer 23, focusing on how you can collaborate like a pro. This...

If you’ve taken time to learn about PCB material options and layer constructions, you have probably seen the wide range of materials that are available on the market. Materials companies produce laminates with varying Dk values, Tg values, weave styles, CTI values, and mechanical properties to target various applications in the electronics industry. There is one set of materials that gets a lot of attention for its low-loss behavior: low-Dk PCB...

Expedite your transition from prototype to scale with the help of an experienced PCB broker! In this episode, a returning guest joins us to discuss everything that involves cost-effective PCB manufacturing. Greg Papandrew, a PCB buying and selling expert, gives us a comprehensive understanding of PCB cost drivers and tips on a good supply chain strategy. Listen to Podcast: Download this episode (right-click and save)  Watch the Video: Sho...

If you’re waiting for truly connected cars on a grand scale, there is still a massive amount of work to be done, both on the hardware and software sides. Connected cars can only become a widespread reality once the automotive industry and telecom carriers can decide which protocol will work best for vehicle-to-everything (V2X) communication. PCB designers will then need to step in to create these systems and fit them into a vehicular environment...

In Getting Started with MicroPython and the Raspberry Pi Pico we looked at how to set up, configure, and run MicroPython on a Raspberry Pi Pico device. In this article we will be focusing on automating that process and turning it into a Continuous Integration (CI) pipeline. Moving the automation into CI will guarantee that our code gets tested every time we push a commit to our code repository Automating MicroPython Commands and Development N...

One of the more common questions I’ve seen asked, both in terms of PCB design and regarding RF systems in general, is related to the use of ground near an antenna. As I’ve detailed in other articles, and as is indeed well known, a grounded conductor generally provides some shielding against electromagnetic waves that would otherwise propagate into a material. In fact, the conductor does not need to literally connect to ground (earth), it only...

In this article, we’ll examine a few tips and guidelines for high-speed printed circuit board designs. When it comes to high-speed designs, we are typically concerned with two areas. The first of them is signal integrity (SI), and issues related to crosstalk due to trace spacing, reflections due to impedance mismatches, attenuation of the signal, and problems such as ringing. Of course, we would like to minimize those problems to the best of our...

Project creation and definition: The first step is to import the schematics generated and edited using OrCad and the PCB file from Mentor Graphics through the Wizard Import. After adding the newly generated PCB file to the imported schematics project, you need to define the Project Option as follows: Connection Matrix: The imported schematics don’t include the properties of each pin of components, so you need to set as “No Report” every...