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Tired of having to create components because you can’t find what I’m looking for, or worse, you find what you’re looking for but whoever created it didn’t do a good enough job. Whether you’re solo or a whole team, components need to have more than just a schematic symbol and footprint.  Incomplete components can lead to chaotic libraries that are difficult to filter through and find needed components. This usually leads to duplicated efforts as...

Tired of having to create components because you can’t find what I’m looking for, or worse, you find what you’re looking for but whoever created it didn’t do a good enough job. Whether you’re solo or a whole team, components need to have more than just a schematic symbol and footprint. Incomplete components can lead to chaotic libraries that are difficult to filter through and find needed components. This usually leads to duplicated efforts as...

Tired of having to create components because you can’t find what I’m looking for, or worse, you find what you’re looking for but whoever created it didn’t do a good enough job. Whether you’re solo or a whole team, components need to have more than just a schematic symbol and footprint. Incomplete components can lead to chaotic libraries that are difficult to filter through and find needed components. This usually leads to duplicated efforts as...

We continue to explore the magic of energy conversion in a PWM transducer. Why is it magic? Theoretically, as we saw in the previous section, the line stabilizer initially converts some of the useful power into heat, which makes the efficiency of the line stabilizer less than 100%, and it is expected for technical systems. Theoretically, in a PWM transducer this happens without losses, isn't that magic? A PWM transducer, like a tailor with...

Great Ideas and Smart Solutions There are different techniques in the world of technology to achieve various goals, both final and intermediate. Some techniques are so successful that they are commonly used with high efficiency. Electronics is no exception. Great ideas and ingenious solutions are found and applied in this area probably more than in other engineering fields. The greatest example is the use of Pulse Width Modulation (PWM) signals...

Whether you’re designing a bench power supply for an electronics lab, or you need to design an embedded power supply for an IoT product, you’ll need some world-class PCB design tools. Altium is here to help you floorplan your power supply and create a set of detailed schematics with powerful circuit design and simulation features. With the schematic design features in Altium Designer, you can create and simulate your new power supply design. You...

Your circuit board substrate and copper conductors are the primary factors that determine how heat will move around the board. Your components will generate heat during operation, illustrating the importance of estimating thermal conductivity of a PCB. The thermal properties of your circuit board substrate are one factor that determine temperature rise in your components (particularly junction temperature) and heat flux away from critical...

Take a look at the electronic design automation software and computer-aided design software landscape, and you’ll find plenty of options for PCB design software. Altium Designer and Mentor PADS are two popular platforms for professional PCB designers. These two platforms have a number of features in common, but the proactive design engineer should take time to compare how each platform will help ensure productivity. ALTIUM DESIGNER A...

As your printed circuit board operates, power dissipation in active components causes the junction temperature to increase, and heat begins flowing from your components into your conductors and your substrate. PCB substrate materials tend to have low thermal conductivity, causing thermal problems like hot spots and high temperature in your PCB. Keeping the temperature of your components below their rated maximum requires thermal heat dissipation...