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The Moon by 2024, Mars by 2040, and Then? It seems the chances are improving that we will one day become a true space-faring species. Read Article
Design Reliable Multiple Stack Microvias Like a Pro In this podcast episode , learn how Gerry Partida and his team at Summit Interconnect made a compelling new discovery about the reliability of multiple stacked microvias. Watch it now. Read Article
Online Educational Resources for Mastering PCB Design Ben Jordan, “Dean of Altium Academy”, shares details about the central hub for educational resources: documentation, videos, and tips for mastering your Altium software. Read Article
OnTrack Newsletter: COVID-19, Virtual Education, and Blogs - April 2020 OnTrack Newsletter April 2020 VOL. 3 No 11 What Impact will the Coronavirus have on Your Designs? Around the world, we’ve all felt the sting of COVID-19 on safety, health, travel, global markets and our workplace. Wondering what impact this may have on design engineers, we reached out to Mike Buetow, the Editor-In-Chief for PCD&F (Printed Circuit Design and Fabrication) and Circuits Assembly magazines to learn about his viewpoint on what Read Article
OnTrack Newsletter: Rogers Corp Growth, RF Design and Brain Food - March 2020 OnTrack Newsletter March 2020 VOL. 3 No 10 Rogers Corporation: The Company Behind Top Performing Laminates If you design PCBs for high-speed digital, RF, Microwave or Millimeter Wave applications, you’re probably very familiar with Rogers laminates. However, did you know Rogers Corp has doubled in size in the past 10 years? Recently, while I was at IPC APEX Expo, I had the opportunity to interview Tony Mattingly, Sr. Product Manager and learn Read Article
OnTrack Newsletter: Engineering Stories, RF Design and Brain Food OnTrack Newsletter February 2020 VOL. 3 No 9 New Engineering Mini-Documentary Series: Altium Stories Too often, in the pursuit of healthy success and growth, it’s tempting for companies to talk about its products or services too much, and their customer’s success too little. While Altium may certainly fall into this all-too-common trap at times, we truly draw our greatest inspiration from innovative engineers like you, who are impacting the world Read Article
The EMC Doctor is in: Ken Wyatt on EMI and PCB Health The OnTrack Podcast welcomes Ken Wyatt (also known as ‘the EMC Doctor’). Ken is an EMC Engineer, a prolific author on EMI/EMC related topics, and an industry consultant. Read Article
Industry 4.0, Artificial Intelligence, and IoT in Manufacturing When it comes to electronics, consumer devices like smartphones and Alexa tend to get all the attention. However, according to Alun Morgan at Ventec International Group, “about 23% of PCBs produced worldwide are used in electronics equipment for manufacturing applications.” The numbers only go up when you include other non-consumer categories that support manufacturing operations, such as automotive, telecom, power generation/distribution, and Read Article
Lane Recognition and Tracking with NVIDIA Jetson Nano Autonomous vehicles are slowly becoming an important part of the automotive industry. Many believe fully autonomous vehicles will soon be driving alongside humans, and technology companies are in a race to deploy fully autonomous vehicles. In December 2018, Waymo, the company that emerged from Google’s self-driving car project, officially started its commercial self-driving car service in the suburbs of Phoenix. Companies like May Mobility, Drive Read Article
Altium Syncs Your Design and PCB Programming Software Altium Designer and Altium 365 can accept outputs from your PCB programming software and store them in the cloud. Read Article
Make Production Outputs a Breeze with Altium Designer’s Netlist in PCB design Production and output files are necessary for getting your designs out into the world. Ensure that your design software is taking care to make this process as simple and easy as possible. ALTIUM DESIGNERAn optimal PCB design software for your circuit board needs. As your PCB design transitions from schematic to layout and then to production, providing the right amount of intelligence for manufacturers becomes a high priority. You can add Read Article
Understanding PCB Copper Thickness in Altium Designer Your design needs the best PCB design tools to accurately prepare it for error-free manufacturing; your design needs Altium Designer. ALTIUM DESIGNEROfficiating the process of getting your product from schematic to manufacturing with ease. 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 Read Article
The Best PCB Antenna Design Software Eases Antenna Implementation Circuit Board antenna design can be a difficult task for any software; however, that shouldn’t be a problem for Atium Designer. ALTIUM DESIGNER Ensuring that your antenna designs are placed without issue. Consumer and industrial demand has prompted the demand for smaller wireless devices. The devices support wearable technologies, Bluetooth Low Energy (BLE) applications, personal communication systems, Internet of Things (IoT) applications Read Article
DIFFERENTIAL SIGNALING IN PCB DESIGN The primary reason that differential signaling is dominating the digital world is that far higher data bandwidths can be achieved over a pair of wires than with parallel, single-ended signaling protocols. The Internet as we know it would not be possible without differential signaling. This information is intended to clear up any confusion about differential signaling. INTRODUCTIONDifferential signaling has evolved into the primary method for Read Article
PCB Temperature Won’t Overheat with Smart Checking Design Software 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 better Read Article
Propagation Delay Calculators in High Speed PCB Design 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 Read Article
Never Lose Track of Fabrication With Unified PCB Panelization Software Once you’re ready to manufacture your PCB, your software should help you maximize your board yield. Altium Designer gives you the power to design your PCB schematics, layout your board, generate your BOM, panelize your boards, and export Gerber files, all in a single software package. ALTIUM DESIGNERAn easy-to-use PCB design tool that helps you take your ideas from layout to manufacturing.Let’s set the scene: you’ve just finished designing the Read Article