Try These New Features in Altium Designer 22.9 September 23, 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 an extension of commenting features: 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 much-loved commenting feature is Read Article USB High Speed (ULPI) Routing Learn what ULPI is for USB High Speed interfaces, as well as best practices for routing this bus on a PCB. Read Article DIY Differential Oscilloscope Probe Project Do you need a differential probe for your oscilloscope? Join Mark Harris designing a DIY differential probe, and exploring the advantages of using a differential probe for testing your circuit. Read Article Pros and Cons of Advanced Electronic Packaging for PCB Designers Our guest Phil Marcoux is very well-known in the advanced electronic packaging community and currently working as a business mentor in the electronics industry. Today we will tackle the pros and cons of heterogeneous electronic assemblies and what we can do as an industry to move forward with it. Read Article Best Methods for Calculating SMD Pad Size in PCB Design Component creation requires accurate SMD pad sizes in your PCB footprints. See how to determine pad sizes for your SMD components. Read Article Component Warpage Causes in a PCB A staff member at a PCB manufacturer once explained to me that they thought we were having an issue with a package warping. Prior to this I had assumed that this was highly unlikely in standard component packages used in a PCBA. Unfortunately, component warping can occur both in a PCB and in components. Mechanical mishandling leading to bending is an obvious one, but there are potentially other problems that could cause component warpage without Read Article Which BGA Pad and Fanout Strategy is Right for Your PCB? Your BGA fanout strategy depends on the BGA pad size and your pin density. Learn how to pair the right BGA pad size with PCB trace width in this article. Read Article How to Properly Ground ADCs Grounding with an ADC will influence noise injection into the board and it should be dealt with carefully when building a mixed-signal system. Read Article Cutting Edge Technology in Packaging with an Interposer In this episode, our guest Joe Dickson, tells us about the cutting-edge technology implemented in advanced packaging at Wus Printed Circuit International. Read Article Plated Through-Hole Vias in mmWave PCBs Plated through-hole vias in mmWave PCBs can ruin signal integrity in your RF interconnects if not implemented properly. Learn how to size and place stitching vias in this article. Read Article How to Calculate a Virtual Array in MIMO Systems RF and sensing systems that use MIMO functionality have some important design constraints concerning virtual antenna design and placement. In these systems, due to the need for finer resolution and higher transmit/receive gain, the trend has been to pack more antennas into an array for beamforming and the reception of low-level signals. There is a reason for this trend, and it relates to an important concept in antenna array systems. When Read Article Maximum Usage to Improve Supply Chain Resiliency Supply chain resilience increases, and electronic design productivity improves when prioritizing components' maximum usage in thoughtful tactical and strategic perspectives. Read Article Footprint Creation Made Easy Learn how to create footprint with ease using the IPC Compliant Footprint Wizard, built-in to Altium Designer. In this guide, you’ll learn how to quickly create an example SOIC-8 footprint, including automatic generation of an accurate 3D model. Read Article Can You Fix a Warped PCB? Before we get too deep into this article, I’ll give you the simple answer. You probably can’t fix warping in your PCB after it’s already been fabricated. You can prevent an unwarped board from becoming warped during assembly, but only as long as materials were selected properly and the board is put into reflow correctly. We’ll run over some of these points in this article, and I’ll examine some points that might help you recover a warped board Read Article Try These Feature Upgrades in Altium Designer 22.7 September 9, 2022 ONTRACK BI-WEEKLY What’s New in Altium Designer? Collaboration and data management features see new enhancements in Altium Designer 22.7. In this announcement, users have access to new commenting and secure repository connection upgrades: Comments & Tasks for Draftsman - The project commenting features now extend into Draftsman documents. All comments in a Draftsman document will be available through a connected Workspace Read Article Use the Best RF Design Software for High Frequency PCBs What should you look for in your RF design software? Integratoin between schematic and PCB is the top need among RF engineers. Read Article Automated PCB Routing With the Situs Topological Autorouter This page looks at the Situs Topological Autorouter. This part of the PCB Editor uses topological mapping to define the PCB routing path and convert this to a high-quality route. Read Article Pagination First page « First Previous page ‹‹ Page33 Current page34 Page35 Page36 Page37 Page38 Next page ›› Last page Last » Load More
