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I live in a rural village that tends to have intermittent power when there are high winds or storms. Because of this, my computers, servers, and network equipment are all on relatively low-cost, uninterruptible power supplies. These all run on sealed lead acid batteries and are not an overly efficient way to power a DC device such as a Raspberry Pi or internet router as the incoming mains. AC charges a DC battery, which then creates AC power...

If there has been one constant about products designed for the internet/networking market spaces, it’s the data rate and frequency of operation at which the technology operates. In some cases, it can be argued that these two dynamics (data rate and frequency) are not necessarily proportional. Still, the former of these meets the criterion of being TNGT (the next greatest technology). With software, the evolution of products is mostly...

See how easy it is to create a prototype from scratch, automatically generate manufacturing files and standardized documentation in only 36.5 minutes - and all of this by only using the tools included in the unified design environment of Altium Designer 20. WE WILL SHOWCASE THE FOLLOWING: Schematic entry and component selection Generating a bill of material with current supplier information from the field PCB-Design and board outline fitting...

If you’re about my age or older, you probably remember being impressed with your old 14.4 kbps dialup internet. Those days seem long gone at this point as gigabit speeds are now commonplace. You can thank the advances by the signal integrity community and IC designers for getting us to this point. Still, one has to wonder whether current interconnect technologies are being pushed to their limits. Data rates on PCB interconnects have increased...

Your libraries are the cornerstone of your PCB design projects. Without them, you wouldn’t be able to load up custom footprints, access schematic symbols, or much else for your PCB projects. When you need to share projects or existing component data with your team, what’s the easiest way to get the data you need without creating long email chains? Before working with Altium 365, we were stuck using tools like Slack, email, an FTP server, Dropbox...

When it comes to providing the widest range of connecting or interconnect technology, there probably isn’t a company that offers a more diverse range of products than Samtec. And when it comes to being at the forefront of the connector industry and technology range, there isn’t anyone more well-versed and knowledgeable than Scott McMorrow, who serves as CTO of Samtec’s signal integrity product group. This article will address the ways in...

Angus Thomson is Senior Electronic Engineer and founder of CircuitBuilder, a brand new platform for simplifying the development of custom electronics out of Suffolk, England. Angus joins the OnTrack Podcast to share his experiences as CircuitBuilder founder, and to discuss the resilience of CircuitBuilder’s business model in a global pandemic Listen to the Podcast: Download this episode (right click and save) Watch the video: {"preview...

At Altium Live 2019 (San Diego), I gave a talk with David Haboud on implementing software development techniques for PCB design. This talk demonstrated what a Continuous Integration/Continuous Delivery (CI/CD) pipeline would look like within a DevOps environment as applied to PCB design projects. In that talk, I used the Atlassian tool suite (Jira, Bitbucket, and Bamboo) to create my DevOps flow for PCB design projects. In this article, I am...

I used to work in a research lab that worked primarily with RFID (Radio Frequency IDentification) and NFC (Near Field Communication) technology, particularly for the agriculture industry and cattle identification. These were very specialised fields. However, the lab also worked on projects which involved retail and various other applications for NFC. It’s an amazing technology that you might be using every day without thinking about it - from...