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This on-demand virtual session covers basic and advanced design challenges that designers and PCB engineers face. It provides instruction with value and insight on the typical design and layout related topics ranging from simple to technically complex solutions incorporating best practices. This track provides insight about how challenges regarding switching speeds in modern high speed devices can be addressed and converted into a solid and...

We are pleased to offer a 3 part Altium Academy Virtual series to discuss the problems that companies can encounter while working remotely, and how to effectively overcome these issues. This track shows how your electrical and mechanical design teams can collaborate while working remotely. We also cover publishing manufacturing content and sharing with 3rd party fabrication and assembly manufacturers.

Altium is pleased to offer a 3 part Altium Academy Virtual series to discuss the problems that companies can encounter while working remotely, and how to effectively overcome these issues. During these 3 webinars, we’ll show how engineering teams working remotely can effectively collaborate to solve critical issues. How to collaborate from multiple locations with colleagues from your organization. How to collaborate with 3rd party companies or...

An SMPS is one of those quiet (yet electrically noisy) devices that makes your favorite electronics run smoothly. They sit in the background quietly doing their duty, yet your board wouldn’t operate without them. As part of DC-DC converter design for power-hungry applications, component selection is quite important for ensuring stable power delivery to a load with high efficiency. Among the numerous DC-DC converter topologies, a buck converter...

As the operating speed of components has increased, controlled impedance is becoming more common in digital, analog, and mixed-signal systems. If the controlled impedance value for an interconnect is incorrect, it can be very difficult to identify this problem during an in-circuit test. Minor mismatches may not cause a board to fail, but it can be difficult to pinpoint incorrect impedance as the cause of any test failure, especially if correct...

Augmented reality, virtual surgery, limb replacements, medical devices, and other new technologies need to incorporate haptic vibration motors and feedback to give the wearer a full sense of how they are interacting with their environment. Unless these cutting-edge applications include haptic vibration and feedback, users are forced to rely on their other four senses to understand the real or virtual environment. Low cost components to support...

Advanced transmission line models for long interconnects require that designers include copper foil roughness calculations in order to determine accurate impedance. Without the right models or design software, you’ll be left to estimate the skin effect impedance, dispersion, and parasitics in your PCB. These models can be difficult to work with by hand if you’re not mathematically inclined, but the right design tools can be used to quickly...

Your modern digital board is most likely classified as high speed, regardless of whether you looked at the datasheets for your components. Designing your board successfully will take some important steps when you begin your design. Aside from floorplanning and stackup design, your routing strategy will need to operate within some important PCB design constraints. After you capture your schematic as an initial layout and create an initial...

Low level components need ultra-stable power, and high speed digital signals need to have repeatable edge transition times. The two aspects of digital signalling are related, and you’ll need to suppress all aspects of power supply noise to reduce jitter in a digital system. During a design debug, you’ll need to gather measurements throughout your board if you want to isolate and eliminate sources of power supply noise. Here’s how you can isolate...