Everything You Need to Know about Conformal Coating Explore the basics of conformal coating with Mark Harris. Conformal coating is a protective layer applied to electronic circuits to guard against environmental factors such as moisture and dust. Read Article Can We All Stop Quoting the Critical Length Rule? Let’s all agree to stop using the PCB critical length rule in high-speed PCB design. Read Article Promoting the Electronics Industry to the Next Generation Charlene Gunther, the Senior Director of the IPC Education Foundation talks about IPC’s efforts to involve students in engaging activities that will introduce the electronic industry to them as early as high school. Read Article Integrating an Electronics Enclosure Design with Altium Designer Industry expert Mark Harris shows you how easy it is to create a bespoke enclosure using SolidWorks with Altium’s MCAD CoDesigner. With step-by-step guidance and seamless integration between ECAD and MCAD workspaces, you'll be able to design and update your project's electronic and mechanical aspects in parallel, ensuring compatibility and right-first-time results. Bring an end to transferring design files between teams and start a hassle-free design process! Read Article Creating Components in Altium 365 at Warp Speed In this article, Ari Mahpour shows you how to add components to your Altium 365 library leveraging the Component Search Engine from Samacsys or SnapEDA. Read on to discover the effectiveness of these free resources on the Cloud. Read Article Solidworks PCB to Altium Designer Read Article Ultra HDI - More Frequently Asked Questions What is Ultra-HDI? There is a lot of conversation about “Ultra-HDI” especially with all of the anticipated work being done as part of the CHIPS Act. In my experience, Ultra-HDI means different things to different people depending on where their capabilities and expertise are. IPC has created a working group to address ultra-HDI and their position is that to be considered ultra-HDI, a design needs to include one or more of the following parameters Read Article How to Design a Bias Tee for a Power Amplifier Bias tees are used in some RF systems to separate AC and DC power along a particular line. Learn more about bias tee design in this article. Read Article Security on CAN bus with Ken Tindell A lot of interesting facts about cyber security and automobile hacking that you would not want to miss! Watch through the end and make sure to check the additional resources below. Read Article RF Power Amplifier Module PCB Design We’ll examine how to design a PCB with a power amplifier. This module generates its own source signal using a VCO. Read Article What's New in Altium 365 - March 2023 The latest Altium 365 updates are here. Read now to learn more. Read Article Achieving Diversified Electronics Supply Chain In this episode, we continue the discussion on diversifying the electronic supply chain. Our guest Case Engelen the CEO of Titoma shares his insight about moving some of the manufacturing to other Southeast Asian countries and South America. Read Article The Biggest Technology Trends to Watch in 2023 February 24, 2023 ONTRACK BI-WEEKLY Some industry groups have been forecasting muddy waters for the PCB manufacturing industry in 2023, but that isn’t stopping development of new technology. 2022 saw record growth in production and NPI, and the first half of 2023 may see a pause. But the 2nd half of 2023 could see rebounds just in time to deliver new products focused on some of the most impactful technology trends. Leading Insights TPCA Sees Read Article A Lookback to the Evolution of the PCB Industry with Happy Holden Happy Holden, a legend in the PCB Industry and one of our favorite Altium Industry Expert contributors gives us a trip to his 53 years of experience in the industry. Read Article Impedance Management Through PCB Stackup Design With Reference Planes Learn design strategies for using controlling impedance and controlled dielectric in your PCB for accurate manufacturing. Read Article When Trace Resistance Trumps Trace Impedance Trace resistance, trace impedance, plane resistance, and plane impedace: when do you need to worry about all of these quantities? Resistance and impedance both are important in small traces and fat rails on a PCB, both internally and externally. Sometimes a new designer entering the world of impedance controlled buses might think they have a trace resistance target, when really they have a trace impedance target. While in power electronics, we Read Article Inverted-F Antenna Design For a PCB Learn how to design an inverted-F antenna for an RF PCB layout. Read Article Pagination First page « First Previous page ‹‹ Page29 Current page30 Page31 Page32 Page33 Page34 Next page ›› Last page Last » Load More
