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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. In Linking Managed Projects with your Git Server using Altium Concord Pro, we reviewed how to mirror Git repositories from your Altium Concord Pro™ server to your favorite Git server (i.e., Github, Bitbucket, Gitlab, etc.). In this article, we will review an approach...

Whether you’re an individual designer or part of a team, 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 major challenges is that the way this is done today can be cumbersome, error-prone, and inefficient. In many instances, we haven’t progressed much beyond traditional phone calls, emails, and ad-hoc meetings... Until...

The “Internet of Things” (IoT) has been a hot topic for years. Connecting and building “things” is something everyone seems to be doing. Back in 2014, I was heavily considering getting “Thing” from The Adam’s Family on the Internet with the NXP Kinetis K64 MCU! If you want a good chuckle, there are some additional details on the Hackaday site. The Case for Cellular IoT Hardware in Industry The term IoT can conjure up thoughts of failed home...

One of the crucial material factors that we address in our classes is the dielectric constant or relative dielectric constant, er. This is sometimes called Dk by laminate suppliers. Sometimes, product developers are not clear as to the role the dielectric constant of PCB materials plays in a design, how to measure it, how to account for it, how it varies with frequency, and how to know if the dielectric constant data provided by the laminate...

This is part 3 of our project to test every type of temperature sensor with all the standard implementations/topologies. If you want to add a temperature sensor to your project, this series has you covered with all the options covering the full range of precision and cost. At the end of the series we’ll be building a pair of host boards for all the sensor cards we have developed which will allow us to test, compare and contrast the different...

Get ready! AltiumLive 2020 is just around the corner, and David Pellerin is on the roster. Dave is Head of Worldwide Business Development for Infotech/Semiconductor at Amazon Web Services (AWS), and a former Director of Marketing for FPGA Design Products at Altium. Dave has also authored five Prentice Hall books on topics from FPGA programming (Field Programmable Gate Arrays) to design automation.  Dave joins us on the OnTrack podcast to bring...

If you need to measure resistance precisely, a Wheatstone bridge is a simple circuit that provides a way to do so by taking a voltage measurement. Despite the simplicity of a Wheatstone bridge, it can be a challenge to make use of one effectively. In this article, we’ll take a look at Wheatstone bridge circuits, how they work and how we can effectively use them with modern electronics. Many sensor types use a Wheatstone bridge internally, as...

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. Introduction “How did this happen?” was the question that everyone was asking. We had just got back from the Assembly House, a new PCBA, and I knew by the adverse reaction that something had gone wrong. I know for most reading this, this scenario doesn’t happen to...

Heidi Barnes is an anomaly in the PCB design world—a long-time, senior-level woman, and hardware engineer, whose career has been steeped in a wide variety of experiences with numerous technologies. Within the industry, she is widely recognized for her knowledge and expertise. Heidi holds five patents, was awarded the NASA Silver Snoopy for her work on hydrogen fire and gas detection, she is the author of over 20 papers on signal integrity and...