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  At one time it was a simple process for printed circuit board designers to get their design manufactured. Board sizes and layer stacks were more generic, and usually, someone else made all the hard layer configuration choices for you. It is a completely different game now with multi-layer PCB designs ranging from two to over thirty layers. In addition, trace widths, ground planes, hole sizes, substrate materials, characteristic impedance...

Circuit Board antenna design can be a difficult task for any software; however, that shouldn’t be a problem for Altium Designer, which can serve as your go-to BLE antenna design software and much more. ALTIUM DESIGNER Ensuring that your antenna designs are placed without issue Consumer and industrial demand have prompted the demand for smaller wireless devices. The devices support wearable technologies, Bluetooth Low Energy (BLE)...

You don’t have time for underperforming electronic design automation (EDA) tools that are difficult to learn and use, you need the best EDA software for PCB design automation that you can get; Altium Designer, available within Altium Develop. But what is EDA software? You’ve got a job that needs to be done and that means the printed circuit board design is your responsibility. You don’t have time for EDA PCB design tools that are underpowered...

Board integrity can be compromised without a conscious effort by the designer to mitigate high temperature board areas. Heat management can help keep your board from catching aflame. ALTIUM DESIGNER The right board design software will go a long way in high-speed designs and beyond. The emphasis on achieving smaller product footprints has pushed multi-layer PCB designs toward higher component densities. As a result, the application of...

Propagation delay becomes an important consideration in high-speed PCB design. You’ll need to make sure that your signals remain synchronized throughout your board in order to prevent skew. A PCB design package that incorporates a propagation delay calculator as part of your design rules makes it easy to compensate for propagation delay, allowing you to focus on routing and signal integrity, rather than manually adjusting traces and calculating...

When PCBs are manufactured, they are placed into a panel which is built from sheets of PCB dielectric materials and copper. The stack-up in a panel matches the stack-up in your PCB design, and multiple copies of the PCB are arranged in the panel to produce the desired volume. Multiple software applications can be used to create the mechanical drawing and artwork for a panel. Some of this software is specialized CAM software, or a panel can be...

Our modern lives would not be possible without electronics. Sometimes it seems like a race to be the first person to wire everything in your house onto PCBs. With the multitude of possible device shapes and sizes, circular or rounded PCBs are becoming more popular. If you want to design your next device on a round PCB, your design software needs CAD and layout tools that don’t constrain you to working on rectangular PCBs. When you work with...

AI technology is quickly changing how devices interact with the world. Traditionally, a programmer has to predetermine how a system will react to the various and unpredictable circumstances that can arise in real-world scenarios. With AI, a model can be trained that captures desired reactions in such a way that the model can reliably provide desired reactions to circumstances that were never anticipated. One challenge for developers new to AI is...

There are numerous resources available that can enable you to bring AI into your product line. However, if you are new to AI, the path from prototype to production can seem daunting. There are new technologies to consider, making developing an AI model a very different beast compared to traditional linear programming. Estimating the processing and memory resources you’ll need can seem somewhat challenging as well. While implementing AI can be...