PCB Design for Manufacturing: Prevent Via Defects by Talking to Your Manufacturer: PCB Design Tips & Tricks - Altium Audio Bites Altium Audio Bites, giving you bite-sized information that's easy to digest and apply to your everyday design tasks. From our PCB Design Tips & Tricks audio series here is: PCB Design for Manufacturing: Prevent Via Defects by Talking to Your Manufacturer. All our audio series are from real PCB designers in the field, detailing their day to day problems and experiences. We hope you can learn from this as much as we have. Give it a listen and let Read Article Switching vs Linear Voltage Regulator: What’s the Best Choice for Your Power Management Circuit? Have you ever had a capacitor explode in front of you? That’s how I started my career in electronics design. I also messed up the power budget calculation for what was initially pitched as a “simple” project. 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