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Imagine 50,000 fans streaming HD video on 5G phones (Image source: pixabay.com) One of the big topics on everyone's lips at the moment is the forthcoming deployment of 5G smartphones and infrastructure. As I wrote in my 5G Meets 50,000 Fans at Super Bowl 2025 column on EEJournal.com, I was idly watching some adverts on television when I saw one showing people streaming video from an American football match. This set me to wondering what the...

Listen to the Podcast: Lawrence Romine, VP of Corporate Marketing for Altium discusses what new features you can expect from Altium Designer® 20, which will be available later this year. Download this episode (right click and save) Watch the video: Show Highlights: Lawrence has been with Altium for almost 15 years. At the time, the move to offshore manufacturing was prevalent and his previous experience with semi-conductors and FPGAs...

Introduction There is a saying “that it’s not how you start that is important, but rather how you finish.” Which is perfectly ok when you are talking about sports and you get off to a bad start need to recover in the second half. However, when it comes to PCB design, it’s not a very good practice. If things start badly, they usually don’t recover, and it continues down the same path—which ends up costing more money and lost design time.   At...

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 First off, before I say anything, the more that I have been using Altium Concord Pro™, the more I like it. In fact, I love it. Altium has surprised me many times with the quality of the tools they put out. A few examples: Draftsman®, ACTIVEBOM® or...

The ability to do a 3D mock-up within your design software, is an invaluable tool that no doubt has prevented countless re-designs and revision changes. This is particularly powerful in the world of flex and rigid flex. When the circuit is intended to be bent, folded, or formed it is very easy to make a mistake with pinouts and orientation. Before the power to model this within the design tool, paper-dolls and mylar cut outs were often used...