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PCIe 5.0 Signal Integrity and Analysis PCIe 5.0 signal integrity follows many trends from other high speed signaling standards. Learn more about this high speed signaling standard in this article. Read Article

Graphene Electronics Might Power Your Next PCB It’s time to ditch the battery, your next PCB might be powered by graphene electronics. Read Article

Free PCB Viewer Review: Best Tool for EDA File Formats To quickly set up and work with the different PCB file formats in one Viewer, you need the best PCB Design tools available; you need Altium Designer. Altium offers a Free PCB Viewer Looking for a PCB viewer free download or free PCB design software that can take all EDA file formats and presents them in a tool accessible to every member of the production process? Being able to read obscure engineering software formats in a variety of environments Read Article

Adding Arduino Boards to Your Integrated Components Libraries An Arduino board is a great way to include standard functionality in your next PCB. If you want to use an Arduino board in your PCB design software, you’ll need to include Arduino boards as part of your component libraries. This allows you to incorporate Arduino boards into your electronics schematics, layouts, and bills of materials. You can use Arduino boards as the backbone for your next product, or as part of a larger multi-board system Read Article

Protel PCB Design Software has Rebranded to Altium Designer Protel PCB isn’t gone, it has been rebranded and enhanced as Altium Designer. ALTIUM DESIGNER The most powerful, modern, and easy-to-use PCB design tool for professional use. You don’t have to look very hard to find software such as Protel PCB design software or Diptrace still in use. Since the mid-1980s, Protel has been used for PCB design in companies all over the world as well as in universities for teaching circuit design and in homes for the Read Article

How to Design a Microstrip to Waveguide Transition Here’s how you can design a microstrip to waveguide transition for your RF PCB layout. Read Article

How to Choose the Best PCB Manufacturer for Your Project Here’s how you can find and qualify the best PCB manufacturer for your new product. Read Article

How Antipads Affect Signal Integrity in Your Multilayer PCB Antipads in your PCB can create a signal integrity problem if not used properly. Here are some guidelines to help you get started. Read Article

How to Involve Customers in PCB Product Development Follow our guide to learn about how to involve customers in your PCB product development process. Read Article

DDR5 vs. DDR6: Here's What to Expect in RAM Modules What can designers expect in DDR5 vs DDR6? Here’s what you can expect for your next memory device. Read Article

Five Issues Your Assemblers Want You to Avoid Learn the five tentpole problems your manufacturers have to deal with, and how avoiding these simple issues will speed your projects through assembly. Read Article

Class-D Amplifier Design and PCB Layout Altium Designer makes it easy to design your own Class-D audio amplifier design. Here’s a simple project to help you get started. Read Article

The IEEE P370 Standard for High Speed PCB Interconnects Signal integrity engineers should pay attention to the IEEE P370 standard for characterizing interconnects out to 50 GHz. Read Article

My Favorite Altium Designer Keyboard Shortcuts and Viewing Features If you want to be more productive in PCB design and layout, try out these common Altium Designer keyboard shortcuts. Read Article

PCB Prototype Board Layout Software Designed to Work in Unison When you’re ready for PCB manufacturing, you need to create a set of deliverables from your PCB layout files. All PCB manufacturers and PCB assembly services will use your layout data and a set of other documents to get your board into the manufacturing process. You shouldn’t need separated design and PCB fabrication tools to get your board into production. Instead, you need to use a complete application for design and manufacturing in a single Read Article

PCB Layout for an LM358 Op-amp Circuit and Module LM358 op-amp circuits are simple, yet they are still useful for low frequency analog applications. Here’s one example of a PCB layout you can create in Altium Designer. Read Article

Managing PCB Manufacturing Quality Control in the Cloud You and your manufacturer can track quality problems and correct at the design level when you use cloud tools for PCB manufacturing quality control. Read Article