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Almost anywhere you look these days, be it academic textbooks, presentations at technical conferences, websites for various products linked to printed circuit board (PCB) design or technical articles posted on your favorite engineering design and automation (EDA) website, the primary challenge in designing today’s high-speed systems is firmly tied to the design of the power delivery system (PDS). It is the “make or break” functionality for a...

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. Of all the regulated industries you can work in as an electronics designer, medical devices come with stringent industry and governmental standards that must be followed. If your new product is intended to diagnose or treat diseases, and if you want to market it to...

This article is part of a three-part introductory series on the controller area network bus (better known as CAN bus): Part 1: An Informal Introduction Part 2: The Protocol Part 3: Designing CAN bus circuitry Meta-Introduction to the CAN Bus Over the past few decades, the industry has consolidated to a limited number of commonly adopted communication buses, from local communication standards such as SPI, I2C, and UART to RS232 and USB that...

As I’ve mentioned in the past, I love collecting data. Temperature sensors seem so simple on the surface, but there’s a lot more to them than you might have initially thought, including a huge range of sensor types. In this series, we’re going to build a range of PCBs which will cover all the temperature sensor types and circuits to implement them. We will also build a pair of host microcontroller boards to collect data and evaluate the sensors a...

He’s back! Signal integrity expert Eric Bogatin returns to the OnTrack podcast to give us a preview of his upcoming AltiumLive 2020 panels, discuss his ongoing quest to impart best design practices to the next generation of engineers, and teach us all how to avoid problematic ‘legacy design rules’ that no longer apply to today’s technology. Dr. Bogatin is Signal Integrity Evangelist at Teledyne LeCroy, and adjunct professor and lecturer at...

For many of us, our knowledge of Denmark surrounds the picturesque capital city of Copenhagen and, within that city, the famous Tivoli Gardens. But Denmark also has a robust tech industry. On several occasions, Speeding Edge partnered with Rolf Ostergaard, founder and owner of EE-Training, to present our two and three-day training courses in Copenhagen and Aarhus, Denmark as well as in Stockholm and Malmo, Sweden and Oslo, Norway. Like us...

AltiumLive 2020: Virtual PCB Summit registration is now open...and for the first time, it's both virtual and free! While we're disappointed not to be meeting with you in person, we are very excited about offering AltiumLive in a format that enables everyone to attend without the barriers associated with time-off, cost, and travel. Read on to learn more about the speakers and topics we have in store at this year's event. The backbone of every...

Getting your products to market on time is paramount. Reusing well-proven, qualified design content can save you time, increase productivity, and reduce design costs. This doesn't necessarily mean just starting with reusable schematic design content, but also the ability to start from predefined Templates that are managed and stored in a centralized location such as Altium 365®. Templates for PCB's, PCB Layer Stack-ups, Draftsman, Documentation...

Previously, in my Introduction to NFC article and providing some background information on NFC, I mentioned that NFC is an extremely versatile protocol. There are many ways you could implement it in your next product, or build a product around its capabilities. Most applications you would come across day to day are simple tags and readers, such as building access or making payments through Google Pay or Apple Pay, where your smartphone is...