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As a mechanical engineer, you own the form, fit, function, and manufacturability of a product’s final assembly. But as products have become smarter and more connected, the PCB that powers them has transitioned from a simple component to be housed into a complex, 3D subsystem with its own mechanical constraints. Despite links between MCAD and ECAD software, engineering teams still rely on manual data sharing that compromise designs, resembling not...

The defining trend in modern electronics is a paradox: devices must shrink in size while expanding in power and functionality; this relentless push for miniaturization, from handhelds to wearables, has fundamentally reshaped the role of the mechanical engineer. The days of designing a simple ‘box’ to house a PCB are gone. Today, the enclosure is an active, elaborate system that must provide structural integrity, manage heat, and shield from...

The modern electronics landscape rewards teams that coordinate early and often. With tighter schedules, more complex systems and volatile supply chains, the cost of misalignment is too high to ignore. Success depends on context sharing, collaborative processes and fewer late-stage surprises. That level of collaboration can’t be achieved with static design reviews and a jumble of email threads. It must happen inside the tools where engineers and...

Wearables continue to get smaller and smarter, delivering seamless experiences that consumers are beginning to adopt like second nature. And while a skin patch, ring, or pair of sunglasses may appear simple, inside there’s a fully integrated wearable PCB system that senses, computes, and communicates while withstanding motion, moisture, and everyday use. In this type of product, PCB layout determines whether a design will work as intended. The...

In this webinar, we will show you how easy and fast it is with Altium Designer in combination with Altium 365 to create a prototype from scratch, cooperate with mechanical tools and automatically generate manufacturing files and standardized documentation. All of this by only using the tools included in the unified design environment of Altium Designer and the cloud base data management system Altium 365. We will showcase the following: Schema...

Modern electronics run hotter than ever. From AI datacenters and electric vehicles to smartphones and medical wearables, today’s devices push serious power through smaller footprints. And when the heat builds up, performance, safety, and reliability are all on the line. For today’s high-performance electronics, thermal management is often the make-or-break factor that separates products that thrive from those that throttle. Fortunately...

When electronic systems fail, heat is often the silent culprit. It creeps into power modules, sneaks behind display glass, and settles into datacenter racks with quiet intensity, gradually building up until it causes performance issues, component degradation, or even system failure. As devices become more compact and more capable, managing that heat has become a common thread that connects every design decision in modern PCB development. Thermal...

Hard switching in MOSFETs, particularly in DC/DC converters, is one factor that reduces system lifetime and creates excess losses which reduce power conversion efficiency. In regulators with low input current, this may not present a reliability problem, but it becomes a larger factor in many of today’s switching regulator topologies, which are operating at lower voltages and higher currents. Hard switching at high frequencies in these designs...

Design reviews are a cornerstone of the FDA’s Quality System Regulation (QSR), specifically outlined in 21 CFR Part 820.30. These reviews are structured checkpoints that play a vital role in ensuring the safety, effectiveness, and regulatory compliance of medical devices. For companies developing medical electronics, where hardware, software, and firmware must work seamlessly together, design reviews are not just a regulatory requirement. They...