Materials Science and Manufacturing of Better PCB In this episode, our guest Geoffrey Leeds the product manager at Insulectro talks about how material science can help solve the unique manufacturing challenges fabricators are dealing with HDI designs. Read Article Come See the New Power Analyzer by Keysight in Altium Designer 22.9 October 28, 2022 ONTRACK BI-WEEKLY Announcing Power Analyzer for Altium Designer, by Keysight Technologies Keysight Technologies and Altium have teamed up to bring you a new Altium Designer Extension for DC power integrity analysis. Power Analyzer by Keysight brings sophisticated DC power analysis to the PCB editor in Altium Designer without the need for expensive prototypes, complicated tools or specialized skills. Analyze your power network Read Article Board Layer Stackup Considerations for High Speed Board Design The PCB layer stackup you build to support high-speed board design needs to be engineered based on layer counts, layer thicknesses, and component lead size. Read Article The High-Speed PCB Stackup Design Challenge Stackups for high-speed PCBs can be designed many ways, but these systems must be built by balancing engineering constraints in a final product. Read Article Design With Manufacturing: A New View on DFM/DFA Download a free ebook on DFM and DFA from Altium and Sierra Circuits. Learn about design WITH manufacturing to help you be successful. Read Article Stepped Impedance Transformer for Complex Loads This article will show how a complex load can be converted to a real load with an impedance transformer for any line length and impedance. Read Article JITX, a Way for Hardware Engineers to Write Codes Duncan Haldane, the CEO, and co-founder of JITX joins us to share a very interesting approach to PCB design. JITX is a way for hardware engineers to write code to design circuit boards. Read Article EMC on the Board and Off the Board We are very delighted to have Min Zhang in this episode. Min is an independent EMC consultant based in the UK. Today, we'll be talking about EMC, both on board and off the board. It will be a very interesting discussion because we will look a little bit deeper at the system level. Read Article PCB Design Guidelines for Using TVS Diode for Transient Protection A TVS diode can help with your PCB layout withstand an ESD event by diverting surges away from protected components. Read Article How to Design an RF Trace Taper for Impedance Matching Transmission line taper structures can provide superior impedance matching between two transmission lines with approximately real impedance. Read Article Supply Chain Strategy for PCB Designer Supply chain management expert Chris Cain shares his 37 years of experience and strategies to overcome electronic part shortages. Read Article Reflectionless Matching vs. Conjugate Matching: An Apparent Contradiction Are reflectionless matching and conjugate matching contradictory? When we look at the formulation for power waves and S-parameters, we see where these are different. Read Article Altium Designer 22.9 Brings New Productivity Features For Commenting and Design Reuse October 14, 2022 ONTRACK BI-WEEKLY What’s New in Altium Designer? The newest enhancements in Altium Designer 22.9 include design reuse updates, a variant update, and a new feature in the footprint editor: Variant improvement in schematics - AD22.9 brings even more improvements to variant creation and management. New tools help streamline creation and management of design variants. Add comments to your BOM - The Comments feature can now be used in Read Article Quarter-Wave Transformer Design For Real and Reactive Loads All quarter-wavelength transformers can be used for real loads, but some can be used for reactive loads with an additional transmission line section. Read Article Streamlining Product Development Process for Successful Launch Ben and Connor of Aptus Design Works shares some great advice for both designers and companies to streamline their product development process from prototyping to manufacturing. Read Article RF Signal Chain and Link Budget Basics Learn about link budget in RF design and use our link budget calculator to evaluate your RF signal chain. Read Article Buck Converter Component Sizing An overview of what calculations are required when sizing components for a switching buck converter. Read Article Pagination First page « First Previous page ‹‹ Page32 Current page33 Page34 Page35 Page36 Page37 Next page ›› Last page Last » Load More
