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Component Shortages Report from IHS Component Shortages Report from IHS What are the coping strategies available for PCB Designers to face the challenging impact of component shortages in the industry? Watch and learn in this episode with expert Greg Wood of IHS. Read Article
Circuit Board layout New Dimensions of PCB Simulation In this interview, they discuss why they developed this software and what solutions they can now offer design engineers. Read Article
DFM reports How to Speed Up Your DFM Report Process in the Cloud Make sure your design will be produced with high quality and yield with our DFM analysis guidelines. You’ll want to perform DFM analysis at multiple stages during the design process. Read Article
Antipad diameter IPC APEX 2021 Antipad Diameter, Crosstalk, and IBM’s Results from IPC APEX EXPO 2021 Interlayer crosstalk begins with antipad diameters, and IBM’s results help us see how antipad diameter on back-drilled PTHs affect signal integrity. Read Article
Microstrip ground clearance Microstrip Ground Clearance: How Close is Too Close? Make sure to account for microstrip ground clearance when using copper pour on the surface layer. We’ll examine what happens with microstrips, striplines, and coplanar waveguides. Read Article
Castellated holes in a PCB How to Design Castellated Holes in a PCB for an SMD Module Modules on small PCBs can be quickly surface-mounted to a carrier board withe castellated holes. Here’s how you can design castellated holes. Read Article
Reinventing the Business of Electronics Reinventing the Business of Electronics Altium’s Chief Ecosystem Officer, Ted Pawela, and Altium’s Chief Software Architect, Leigh Gawne, join us to give us information about the launching of Nexar—an open ecosystem with zero cost. Read Article
DFM analysis PCB design Complete Guide to DFM Analysis Make sure your design will be produced with high quality and yield with our DFM analysis guidelines. You’ll want to perform DFM analysis at multiple stages during the design process. Read Article
Wideband signal integrity Wideband Signal Analysis in Ultra-high Speed PCB Design Wideband signal analysis may seem like black magic, but it does more than create pretty graphs. Read our introduction to wideband signal analysis to learn more. Read Article
7. Serial Communications Protocols - 1-Wire Serial Communications Protocols: Part Seven - 1-Wire Many Serial Communication Protocols are available for transferring data between electronic devices, whether that’s a microcontroller reading data from a sensor or sending data to a storage device. This is one of a series of articles that will cover some of the more popular protocols in common usage. We’ll complete the series with a comparison of the advantages and disadvantages of each. My aim is that the series will prove to be a useful Read Article
Serial Communications Protocols Part Six - I2C Serial Communications Protocols Part Six - I2C In this next installment in our series on serial communications protocols, we’re looking at the popular I2C protocol. This follows on from the preceding articles where we are looking at some of the different types of Serial Communication Protocols available. These provide a practical solution to the transfer of data between devices over reasonably short distances. Typical applications include the capture of large amounts of data from data Read Article
Serial Communications Protocols Part 5 - SPI Serial Communications Protocols Part 5 - SPI In this next article in our series that is looking at different types of Serial Communication Protocols, we will be looking at the popular SPI protocol. This is one of many popular protocols in common usage that we will be looking at. We will provide a useful summary of each type’s advantages and disadvantages at the end of this series. SPI stands for Serial Peripheral Interface. It is a serial communication bus commonly used for short-distance Read Article
Power supply pcb layout PCB Layout Guidelines for Switching Power Supplies and Regulators Read our short list of layout guidelines for switching power supplies and high current voltage regulators. Read Article
Unleashing your High Density PCB Designs Unleashing your High Density PCB Designs Chris Hunrath, Vice President of Technology at Insulectro joins us in this episode and learn how PCB designers can benefit from this new (not so new) Modified Semi Additive Process (MSAP) Technology. Read Article
Collaboration Tools for Electronics Engineers The Best Collaboration Tools for Electronics Engineers Altium 365 includes the best collaboration tools for electrical engineers, MCAD engineers, and PCB design professionals. Read Article
Power supply EMI How to Combat Power Supply EMI in Your PCB Power supply EMI can be like a ghost lurking in your PCB layout, but some simple design choices can help you prevent excess EMI from your power supply or power regulator. Read Article
One-Stop Design Team Configuration A heavy focus is usually put on managing your design data, but what about managing your design team? A mismanaged Watch Video