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When designing your next PCB, think about all the project stakeholders associated with the project. Many people are affected, inside and outside of your organization. Sharing your designs freely and communicating between different teams is key to ensuring a smooth and effective workflow. Designers must communicate with each other, critique, and offer ideas. In addition, projects need to go through final approvals, whether internal or external...

Coupling capacitors find plenty of uses in analog applications and on differential protocols, acting essentially as high pass filters that remove DC bias carried seen on a signal. In PCIe routing, coupling capacitors are used for the same function (removing DC offset), but for different purposes. In the case of PCIe routing, there are a few reasons to place AC coupling capacitors on differential pairs beyond the fact that AC coupling capacitors...

For many of us, building a PCB is not done by a single person. We have teams for the schematic, layout, procurement, enclosure, and more. And for all design decisions, there is a review and approval process. It is essential to ask questions and review the design approaches used with your team. Design reviews are essential in the design process, but they can be inconvenient for team members and lack traceability or history. To create the best...

For many of us, building a PCB is not done by a single person. We have teams for the schematic, layout, procurement, enclosure, and more. And for all design decisions, there is a review and approval process. It is essential to ask questions and review the design approaches used with your team. Design reviews are essential in the design process, but they can be inconvenient for team members and lack traceability or history. To create the best...

For many of us, building a PCB is not done by a single person. We have teams for the schematic, layout, procurement, enclosure, and more. And for all design decisions, there is a review and approval process. It is essential to ask questions and review the design approaches used with your team. Design reviews are essential in the design process, but they can be inconvenient for team members and lack traceability or history. To create the best...

Routing is one of the most time-consuming stages of PCB design. Altium Designer has a large set of tools that allow you to do it as accurately and quickly as possible. This document will help you to learn how to manage your routing effectively and use it to its fullest extent. The basis of PCB topology development in Altium Designer. By offering powerful routing tools, the system provides comprehensive settings. All groups of settings are...

When you hear about 10-ounce copper PCBs, high current and high voltage come to mind. In this episode, we will have a deep dive discussion on designing heavy power boards with Mario Strano. Mario is the senior PCB designer at Nikola and also president of ECAD Central. He will share with us his 16 years of experience in PCB design and the migration services he provides through ECAD Central. Watch this episode or listen on the go. We’ve touched on...

Altium, a leading global developer of software for electronics design, and AT&S, one of the leading and well-known manufacturers of leading-edge PCB technologies, invite you to participate in a joint webinar "How to use Flex and Rigid-Flex PCBs as its best". Today’s PCB designers are faced with miniaturization, decreasing target BOM costs, and increasing product and quality/reliability requirements, all while time-to-market windows continue to...

High-reliability electronics must go through multiple rounds of testing and qualification to ensure they can withstand their intended operating environment. Designing to performance standards, whether the baseline IPC standards or more stringent industry standards, is the first step in ensuring a reliable circuit board can be manufactured with a high yield and will perform as required in its ideal environment. Over several rounds of prototyping...