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Easily Find Electronic Components for Your Next PCB Design Dan Schoenfelder joins us today to discuss the most extreme problems the PCB design industry faces: supply shortages, particularly the semi-conductor products and microcontrollers. Read Article

100A 12V H-Bridge Project Synopsis: Build a powerful 1200W motor driver with Mark Harris in this open source H-Bridge project. Learn about H-Bridges, and designing high current circuit boards with this 100 amp demonstration board. Read Article

Pin-Package Delay and Via Delay in High Speed Length Tuning Take a look at the inside of some integrated circuit packages, and you’ll find a number of wires bonded to the semiconductor die and the pads at the edge of the component's package. As a signal traverses makes its way along an interconnect and into a destination circuit, signals need to travel across these bond wires and pads before they are interpreted as a logic state. As you look around the edge of an IC, these bond wires can have different Read Article

Making Codes Tangible Through Electronic Projects In this episode, Bill Kolicoski, the creator of Taste the Code Youtube channel, inspires young electronic designers to start learning through creating. Read Article

Landing a Full-Time Engineering Career at NASA Andrew Hartnett dreamt of working with NASA at a very young age. He will share with us exactly how he landed his Computer Engineer position in this very sought-after agency. Watch this episode, or listen on the go! Read Article

Ebook: Guide to Using Ferrite Beads in a PCB Ferrite beads in a PCB are the stuff of myth, but there are legitimate uses for ferrite beads and other ferrite components. In this e-book, we’ll examine some uses of ferrite beads in a PCB, as well as other magnetics. Download PDF

US Congress Proposes Support for American PCB Manufacturing Meet the Supporting American Printed Circuit Boards Act of 2022, proposed in the US Congress by Reps. Moore and Eshoo. Read Article

Stop Surprises By Assuring Your BOM Is Always Up To Date The electronics industry is constantly changing, especially when it comes to the supply chain. Components are constantly going out of Watch Video

A-SAP™ – What do you need to know? Semi-additive process or SAP allows the ability to design with, and manufacture a 15-micron trace and space repeatedly and reliably. Read more about this great option and opportunity previously not available to PCB designers and PCB fabricators. Read Article

Monte Carlo Simulation vs. Sensitivity Analysis: What’s the Difference? SPICE gives you an alternative to Monte Carlo analysis so that you can understand circuit sensitivity to variations in parameters. Read Article

Creating Continuous Integration Pipelines for FPGAs

FPGAs: Creating Continuous Integration Pipelines for Embedded Systems or PCBs In this article Ari Mahpour walks you through creating Continuous Integration pipelines targeted for FPGAs Read Article

Advanced Topics in High-Speed Design This track is for the engineer who understands high-speed design requirements and wants to learn design practices to help ensure Watch Video

How Reliable is Your Hybrid PCB Stackup? Do you know whether your hybrid PCB stackup is reliable? What can your fabricator do to help ensure reliability? Read this article to learn more. Read Article

Fundamentals of High-Speed Design This track is for the designer who is new to high-speed layout and routing practices and wants to understand how Watch Video

6-Layer PCB Stackup Design Guidelines 6-layer PCB design guidelines are easy to follow when you use the right design software. Read Article

Hands-on Learning for PCB Design Students with Sid Deliwala Our guest Sid Deliwala is the Director of Lab Programs in the Electrical and Systems Engineering Department at the University of Pennsylvania. Sid will share how he makes Electrical and Computer Engineering (ECE) fun and meaningful for our future innovators. Read Article

Data Security, 5G and Onshore PCB Manufacturing with Dr. Rob Spalding In this episode, we are very pleased to have Dr. Rob Spalding. He is a retired Brigade General at the US Air Force and now the CEO of SEMPRE (Secure EMP-Resistant Edge), a tech company based in Washinton DC that provides military-grade 5G and high-performance edge computing infrastructure for telecom operators, first responders, government and enterprise customers. Today, Rob and I will talk about all things security! Rob will tackle the Read Article