PCB Trace Corrosion: Why It Happens and How to Prevent It When most people drop their cell phone in water, they hurriedly dry off the outside of the phone, remove the battery, and toss the phone in a bag of rice. The myth goes that the rice draws water out from the inside of the phone, thus saving your phone’s the precious electronic circuitry, your wallet’s money, and your own sanity. What people don’t realize is that simply drying out your phone is not a solution. Water ingress can cause the device to Read Article Laser-Drilled Microvia-in-Pad Technology in Your HDI PCB HDI PCBs with fine-pitch BGAs often use laser-drilled via-in-pad or microvia in-pad for BGA fanout routing. Here is how to design microvia-in-pad. Read Article Design Reuse: Methodologies and Best Practices for Re-Applying Previous Boards It’s to reuse items related to our work. Chefs reuse recipes, seamstresses reuse patterns, and engineers reuse circuitry. The problem is that our design tools aren’t always on the same page with us when it comes to re-applying previous boards and circuitry. The benefits are obvious; reusing work will save time and money. Additionally, there’s the benefit of using circuitry that has already been through the debug process and is known to work. I Read Article Leave Translation Magic in the Hands of Altium Import Wizard Having a wizard do your bidding is great when convoluted tasks need some hocus pocus. Removing tortuous steps to get a solution is the goal. A wizard moves pesky tasks to forgotten trials by doing the heavy lifting. Need your PCB files translated? Call the wizard. PCB design toolsets would benefit from well-placed wizards able to perform intricate tasks like file translation. File translation is needed when importing document containers Read Article 37:15 Altium Designer: Key Benefits of ActiveBOM Webinar What is ActiveBOM? ActiveBOM is an editor in Altium Designer that sits alongside, in importance, with the schematic and PCB Watch Video How to Design a Printed Circuit Board in 10 Easy Steps Learn how to design a printed circuit board (PCB) and the standard workflow used in the industry. We'll cover schematic capture, PCB layout, and generating printed circuit board design outputs in Altium Designer. Read on to learn the universal PCB design steps. Read Article All About PCBs: Design007 Magazine Resources Looking for PCB Design resources? Learn all about the PCB Design Magazine designers love, Design007, from iConnect007 in today's OnTrack Podcast episode with Andy Shaughnessy. Watch or listen now. Read Article 14:19 Everything You Need to Know About AltiumLive: Annual PCB Design Summit Watch Video Let Them Build Robots! All About AltiumLive Learn all about AltiumLive: PCB DESIGN SUMMIT, the premier tech conference for PCB designers, brought to you by Altium. Watch or Listen to this OnTrack special episode today! Read Article Determining Impedance with a Microstrip Line Calculator Whether you’re new to PCB design or you’ve made your career out of it, there are many times in RF and high speed design where you need to design microstrip and stripline traces to have a specific impedance. This is done by adjusting the width of the line until the desired impedance value is reached. It's important to understand where impedance calculators are applicable as different calculators include specific assumptions on dielectric Read Article Transmission Line Delay Calculators in PCB Design Transmission lines are one of those deceptively complex things that make modern life possible. What seems like a simple metal cable is, in fact, a precisely engineered system. Traces on PCBs are no different, and they are like the blood vessels that power your electronic devices. So what is a transmission line anyway? This term was initially adopted to create the analogy between traces on a PCB and civilian power lines. The term “transmission Read Article DDR3 Memory Interfaces and Topologies in PCB Design In the World Memory Championships, individuals compete in memory sports by memorizing as much information as possible within a specific timeframe. The championships include ten different disciplines that cover numbers, binary digits, playing cards, random lists of words, names and faces, historic dates, abstract images, and speed cards. No one has tested the World Memory Champion against DDR3 memory and no one really knows how the World Memory Read Article Copper Wrap Plating in Your PCB No one wants to purchase a new electronic device, only to have it fail a week later. I’ve had the same flat screen monitor for over five years, and it is probably the toughest electronic device I’ve ever owned. If you love reliable designs, then you probably pay attention to industry standards designed to improve device lifetime. Via plating in a PCB should be reliable enough that it can withstand shock and thermal cycling. This is where plating Read Article Bil Herd on Changing CAD Tools and Making Your Own Part Libraries . Watch Video Injection Molded Structural Electronics and Designing in a 3D Space Injection Molded Structural Electronics means integrating electronics inside 3D electronics to create smart surfaces. This and more in today's episode with Sini Rytky and Tuomas Heikkilä from TactoTek Read Article Manufacturing Documentation with Duane Benson . Watch Video Meet the San Diego Keynotes of AltiumLive 2018: Annual PCB Design Summit - August 2018 OnTrack Newsletter August 2018 VOL. 2 No 5 Welcome to the August edition of the OnTrack Newsletter! This month we have a special AltiumLive 2018: Annual PCB Design Summit feature in which you can get a sneak peek into what we have planned with you in mind — and what our four illustrious keynote speakers will be presenting at the October event in San Diego. (Stay tuned for more information on our Munich event January 15-17, 2019.) In Makerspace Read Article Pagination First page « First Previous page ‹‹ Page136 Current page137 Page138 Page139 Page140 Page141 Next page ›› Last page Last » Load More
