Embedded Capacitance Materials Overview One important material that can appear in a high-speed PCB is an embedded capacitance material. These laminates aid power integrity in small boards with high layer counts. Read Article Moving to Altium Designer from KiCad Making a Smooth Transition to Altium Designer from KiCad Layout In this guide, we’ll focus on importing KiCad Layout PCB designs. Please refer to specific guides if you need to migrate other files. Legacy Translation Before You Begin This guide will show you how to import data from your legacy system into Altium Designer. Before importing all of your legacy data, it’s important to ask yourself, “why do I need to import my legacy data?” Below are Read Article Getting Started with MicroPython and the Raspberry Pi Pico In this article Ari Mahpour introduces the MicroPython programming language and how it can be used on the Raspberry Pi Pico, specifically for hardware engineers. Read Article What's in a Hardware-Software Co-design Process Product development spans across multiple domains, including hardware and software. A co-design process for your hardware and software helps ensure your success. Read Article PCB Build-Up Basics In this article, we will be discussing what PCB build-ups are, and which elements make up a typical PCB—all the way from the basics of PCB build-up, to pre-preg materials, core materials, and copper foils. Read Article Overcoming Technological Challenges in the PCB Industry In this episode we will discuss all about the technological challenges the industry is facing. Matt will help us understand the “ecosystem” involving the semiconductor industry, advanced packaging, and IC substrates. Read Article ESD Protection Basics with TVS Diodes Learn about ESD protection basics with TVS diodes, why we need them, and what key parameters make up a typical TVS diode. Read Article How I Improved My Collaboration Efficiency with Altium 365 In my years as a practising electronics engineer, one of the most significant inefficiencies I have noticed has always been communication between teams, freelancers, contractors, and clients. This has always been the most noticeable when working with firmware developers. And it doesn’t matter if I am working with the firmware developer internally on a permanent team or if I am working with an external contractor who will develop the firmware for Read Article Materials Science and Manufacturing of Better PCB In this episode, our guest Geoffrey Leeds the product manager at Insulectro talks about how material science can help solve the unique manufacturing challenges fabricators are dealing with HDI designs. Read Article Come See the New Power Analyzer by Keysight in Altium Designer 22.9 October 28, 2022 ONTRACK BI-WEEKLY Announcing Power Analyzer for Altium Designer, by Keysight Technologies Keysight Technologies and Altium have teamed up to bring you a new Altium Designer Extension for DC power integrity analysis. Power Analyzer by Keysight brings sophisticated DC power analysis to the PCB editor in Altium Designer without the need for expensive prototypes, complicated tools or specialized skills. Analyze your power network Read Article Board Layer Stackup Considerations for High Speed Board Design The PCB layer stackup you build to support high-speed board design needs to be engineered based on layer counts, layer thicknesses, and component lead size. Read Article The High-Speed PCB Stackup Design Challenge Stackups for high-speed PCBs can be designed many ways, but these systems must be built by balancing engineering constraints in a final product. Read Article Design With Manufacturing: A New View on DFM/DFA Download a free ebook on DFM and DFA from Altium and Sierra Circuits. Learn about design WITH manufacturing to help you be successful. Read Article Stepped Impedance Transformer for Complex Loads This article will show how a complex load can be converted to a real load with an impedance transformer for any line length and impedance. Read Article JITX, a Way for Hardware Engineers to Write Codes Duncan Haldane, the CEO, and co-founder of JITX joins us to share a very interesting approach to PCB design. JITX is a way for hardware engineers to write code to design circuit boards. Read Article EMC on the Board and Off the Board We are very delighted to have Min Zhang in this episode. Min is an independent EMC consultant based in the UK. Today, we'll be talking about EMC, both on board and off the board. It will be a very interesting discussion because we will look a little bit deeper at the system level. Read Article PCB Design Guidelines for Using TVS Diode for Transient Protection A TVS diode can help with your PCB layout withstand an ESD event by diverting surges away from protected components. Read Article Pagination First page « First Previous page ‹‹ Page14 Current page15 Page16 Page17 Page18 Page19 Next page ›› Last page Last » Load More
