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Ben Nibali, founder and President of Aptus Design Works, with Connor Richardson, the Electrical Designer, are our guests in this episode. We will discuss how you can plan the cost and lead times to successfully launch your product in the market. Ben and Connor share some excellent advice for designers and companies to streamline their product development process from prototyping to manufacturing. Listen to Podcast: Download this episode ...

In this two-part series of articles, we are going to be looking at the basic principles and ways you should route and lay out your PCBs to minimise chances of EMI problems and to maintain proper signal integrity. This first article outlines the basics of signals, energy, and fields, as well as rise and fall times in the digital domain and what this means for us as PCB designers. Signals, Energy, and Fields The core takeaway and what a large...

The Properties panel provides access to the properties of documents and objects. The contents of the panel change depending on the active document or the selected object. The set of properties completely covers all the necessary parameters and settings of the object. Summary Document options are used to customize the grid, fonts, sheet format, and more. You can access them in the Properties panel. Document options in a SCH library Docum...

IoT devices deployed in the field will generally have two means to talk to each other: over a cable or wirelessly. In wireless communication, there is a quantity used to describe how much power arrives at a wireless receiver: the link budget. In a wireless system connecting two devices, the link budget is intended to account for all sources of gain and loss that will impact power delivery to a receiving antenna. If you're designing a wireless IoT...

Switching Regulators If you’ve never worked with switching converters before, let alone if you haven’t chosen switching converter components before, the whole affair can seem a bit overwhelming at first. A huge number of different switching ICs, many datasheets and application notes, compensation networks, long calculations, and more may have put you off. Instead, you may have opted to use linear regulators in your design, due to their inherent...

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There are many variants of USB on the market today, ranging from variations of the protocol itself to variations within the protocol. In this article, we’ll be examining the ULPI (UTMI+ low pin interface) interface, which can be found in USB high speed (HS) PHYs. In comparison to the UTMI+ specification and interface, as the name implies, ULPI is a low pin-count variation of this bus. This helps us as PCB design engineers, as we do not need...

Let’s build a DIY differential oscilloscope probe! Sure, I could buy one, but where is the fun in that? I’m working on a big project that will require an LC Tank circuit to be tuned, this tank circuit simulates to have voltages exceeding 1000v peak to peak. Furthermore, the point I need to measure the voltage is across a capacitor, with neither side being earth ground referenced. This rules out simply using a high-voltage oscilloscope probe to...

Designers often view component creation as a "necessary evil." It's something we all have to do at some point. But instead of spending hours creating your components, you can streamline the process. Altium Designer provides a wide range of tools to create different aspects of a component, including symbols, footprints, 3D model parametric data, supply chain details, and more. Join our webinar to discover how you can: Create Schematic symbols...