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September 2021 VOL. 5 No. 3   Full Article | Watch Video | Brain Food Resources for the Lifelong Learner A successful engineering career is one that begins with curiosity, is fueled by passion and devotes itself wholly to a path of lifelong learning. In this...

If you need to capture sound waves for your electrical device to process, you'll need a microphone. However, microphones these days have become very advanced, and there are so many options to choose from. While there are relatively small dynamic microphones, they come with a broad range of options and technologies. They range from relatively simple and popular condenser-type microphones to state-of-the-art sound conversion solutions incorporating...

A few years ago, in a recap video of AltiumLive, Dr. Eric Bogatin, the Dean ofSignal Integrity Academy, stated the following: “Everybody recognizes that you have to continually grow. It’s kind of like in Alice in Wonderland. Alice is in the Red Forest, and the line goes something like this: ‘in this forest, you have to run faster and faster, just to stay in the same place!’ And I think that encapsulates where the industry is today. The most...

Sometimes, you need to make a board-to-board connection, use a custom cable, or daisy chained arrangement of multiple boards. While working on a recent client project, we were dealing with daisy chaining boards across a large manifold, and we needed to make sure that, no matter how the installers arranged their ribbon cable, it would always plug in the right way. Sometimes, you need to foolproof a design to make sure that simple mistakes don’t...

Most PCB Designers wear many hats, and one of them is to solve EMC problems. Ken Wyatt, the EMC expert, talks about his passion for sharing his knowledge on addressing the most common EMC problems with PCB designers. Why is it important to troubleshoot it during the design process, and how can you acquire this skill that is not offered in the university? Watch now or listen on the go!  Listen to the Podcast: Download this episode (right...

The primary source of high-speed problems is not due to high clock frequency but rather the fast rise and fall times of component signals. With fast edge rates, reflections may occur at the receiver side, and when the board routing is dense, crosstalk may become a problem. In this video, you'll sharpen your knowledge and develop new skills that you can use to design High-Speed PCB's more efficiently and effectively. It covers critical concepts...

If you look on the internet, you'll find some interesting grounding recommendations, and sometimes terminology gets thrown around and applied to a PCB without the proper context or understanding of real electrical behavior. DC recommendations get applied to AC, low current gets applied to high current, and vice versa... the list goes on. One of the more interesting grounding techniques you'll see as a recommendation, including on some popular...

With ever increasing speeds in high speed data systems comes a couple of PCB layout challenges. High speed busses like DDR, VME, PCIe just to mention a few can all reach data transfer speeds that require strict timing with very tight tolerances, thereby leaving very little slack in the PCB layout. Join us in this webinar to learn why it's imperative to match track lengths in high speed data systems and differential signals. You’ll see how to...

With ever increasing speeds in high speed data systems comes a couple of PCB layout challenges. High speed busses like DDR, VME, PCIe just to mention a few can all reach data transfer speeds that require strict timing with very tight tolerances, thereby leaving very little slack in the PCB layout. Watch this on-demand webinar to learn why it's imperative to match track lengths in high speed data systems and differential signals. You’ll see how...