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Today, designers typically use their EDA software defaults as a starting point and modify dimensions, units, grid settings, colors, and other environmental aspects as required. When starting projects, users generally will put in the effort each time and start from scratch with very little reuse of known-right settings, layer stacks, schematic sheet title blocks, etc. Creating design data on the fly like this invites inconsistencies and risks to...

Today, designers typically use their EDA software defaults as a starting point and modify dimensions, units, grid settings, colors, and other environmental aspects as required. When starting projects, users generally will put in the effort each time and start from scratch with very little reuse of known-right settings, layer stacks, schematic sheet title blocks, etc. Creating design data on the fly like this invites inconsistencies and risks to...

DFM guidelines tend to focus on fabrication, but we can't forget that assembly is the critical step that turns a sheet of composite material into a real electronic device. That means DFA is in full effect for single-sided and double-sided PCBs. Like other manufacturing defects, there are some steps a designer can take to ensure their double-sided PCBA will have high yield. Here’s what you can do to ensure high yield after double-sided PCB...

Get out (or online) and learn! This episode with Tomas Chester is all about engaging and contributing to the design community. He shares with us his motivation to self-educate and how he invests in his career through a dedicated effort to connect with the engineering community. Tomas shares how to make the most of your learning style and utilize educational resources.   Listen to the Podcast: Download this episode (right click and save) Watc...

Probably every IC datasheet and application note I’ve read does a poor job of explaining decoupling capacitor selection. There are three things they all seem to agree on: IC datasheets and application notes seem to agree that you need decoupling capacitors (they don’t always say why) They seem to agree that you need exactly two or three of them per large IC with different values (they don’t always say why, or they explain it incorrectly) They...

In this interview, Altium Chief of Staff and Head of Investor Relations, Kim Besharati discusses the new Multi-Level Subscription Plan that was rolled out earlier this month. By providing unprecedented flexibility, choice and a ground-breaking way for design engineers to collaborate with the entire supply chain, this new subscription plan is poised to fundamentally improve the way electronic products are realized around the world. Judy Warner: A...

Whether you are an individual designer or a team of people, there are always others in the value chain that you rely on to turn your design from intent to reality. Making this happen means you have to collaborate and share. One of the problems is that the way this is done today can be cumbersome, error-prone, and inefficient — we haven’t progressed much beyond phone calls and emails, until now. A decade worth of research and development with...

In this article, we’re looking at the fourth class of temperature sensors in a series of articles that are all about measuring temperature. In the introduction, we created a set of project templates that will allow us to develop stackable, analog, or digital sensor cards for testing different types of temperature sensors. At the end of the series, we’ll be building a set of host boards for these, which will allow us to compare the performance...

New embedded designers might not realize this, but Raspberry Pi is not known for building microcontroller boards. The renowned embedded hardware manufacturer is better known for single-board computers (SBCs) and computer-on-modules (COMs) for production-grade embedded applications. That all changed this week. About 48 hours ago, the Raspberry Pi Foundation released its first microcontroller board, and we can officially welcome Raspberry Pi into...