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If you read many PCB design guidelines, particularly on parallel protocols and differential pair routing, you’ll see many mentions of trace length matching. When you need to do trace length matching in PCB design, your goal is to minimize timing differences between traces in a length-matching differential pair in a serial protocol, multiple traces in a parallel protocol (e.g., DDR data lines), multiple traces/pairs in a parallel protocol, or any...

I have always been compelled by the idea to ditch my laptop for something similarly powerful but more portable. I'm the owner of a small business called Fermium; we design and manufacture scientific instrumentation for university teaching and research. Like many engineers, the laptop I use for PCB design, mechanical computer-aided design (CAD), and simulation is big and clunky. I maxed out the ram, bought a huge monitor and a 3D connexion mouse...

LED’s are a great way to display a device’s status when it’s operating. It could be a simple light to show the device is switched on or indicate if a particular event has occurred. However, what do you do if you need to protect your device from the elements, be that wet or dusty conditions, high humidity, or external electromagnetic interference (EMI)? Enclosing the device in a hermetically sealed enclosure can provide the protection you need...

Core Meditation Device ($149-$219)   Meditation is a great way to deal with workday stress and bring your life more into balance, but for many of us, it’s hard to just sit quietly and do nothing for a few minutes. Core’s handheld meditation device—created using Altium Designer—helps you get the most mental health benefits through short meditation sessions. The compact tool employs guided meditation, gentle vibration, breath techniques, and music...

The design process often requires repetitive work with tedious tasks. Altium Designer 21 represents a better way to design by revitalizing long-standing functionality and improving the user experience, as well as performance and stability, based on the feedback from our users. These improvements streamline existing design tasks and empower you to complete sophisticated rigid and rigid-flex designs with realistic 3D modeling. In addition, Altium...

Altium Concord Pro™ as a standalone product and brand name has been discontinued and the capabilities are now available as part of our Altium enterprise solutions. Learn more here. I’ve been enjoying working with Altium Concord Pro® hosted on the Altium 365® cloud recently. One of Altium 365’s best features is the support for mechanical collaboration with SolidWorks, PTC Creo and Autodesk Inventor. Thanks to the project hosting features through...

The OnTrack Podcast welcomes Hans Klos, founder and CEO of Sintecs, a simulation service provider and developer of the HyperLynx® Connector tool. HyperLynx® Connector is a freeware application which seamlessly bridges the gap between Mentor Graphics’ HyperLynx and Altium Designer.  Join us as Hans and Judy discuss the HyperLynx Connector tool, their upcoming webinar collaboration, and common signal integrity pitfalls. Listen to the Podcast: ...

Calculating PCB costs requires professional PCB drawing tools with mechanical and electrical standards incorporated intelligently for aggressive pricing. But how to reduce PCB cost? ALTIUM DESIGNER PCB design tools are capable of tracking costs and keeping production expenditures within the budget. Produce low-cost instructions with elegant drill files Calculating printed circuit board fabrication and assembly costs requires knowledge...

The design process often requires repetitive work with tedious tasks. Altium Designer 21 represents a better way to design by revitalizing long-standing functionality and improving the user experience, as well as performance and stability, based on the feedback from our users. These improvements streamline existing design tasks and empower you to complete sophisticated rigid and rigid-flex designs with realistic 3D modeling. In addition, Altium...