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Efficient Battery Power Supplies Expert Mark Harris tackles some important pointers to improve your electronics design’s battery efficiency. Read Article
An Overview of Power Supply Design Prevent potential problems from incorrect power supply design. This article talks about PCB power supply design guidelines and tips. Read Article
An Overview of Dual Power Supply Design In this article, you will learn about the numerous types and configurations for designing PCB with a dual power supply. Mark Harris included bonus design tips. Read Article
AC to DC Power Supply Design Mark Harris, an expert PCB designer gives us some pointers to keep in mind when designing your AC to DC power supply. Read it now. Read Article
EMI Shielding Techniques You Can Use in Your PCB Design Software Electromagnetic interference (EMI) is such a problem that governments around the world have placed limits on the amount of EMI an electronic device is allowed to generate or receive. Your electronic device needs to be designed to prevent unintentional radiation and suppress conducted noise up to a very high frequency value. This is not a simple matter of adding filtering on every circuit in your PCB layout, it’s about considering the entire Read Article
Designing for the FPGA Pin Mapper It is a well-known fact that FPGA IO names must meet specific syntax requirements in Verilog or VHDL. The naming convention used in Altium Designer schematics doesn’t always meet these criteria specified by the hardware description languages (HDL). As a result, there can often be a mismatch between PCB net names and the actual FPGA signal names. As more users experiment with the FPGA Pin Mapper tool in Altium Designer, they will discover that the Read Article
1:12:09 How Breville Innovates 4x Faster with Altium Breville is an Australian company founded in Sydney in 1932. It is best known for its home appliances, specifically blenders Watch Video
What Target Impedance Should You Use in Your PDN? The target impedance in your PDN can be easily determined by looking at the datasheets for your components. Read Article
Macrofab: Modern EMS Solutions in North America Macrofab offers a better electronics manufacturing experience for the customer. Chris Church, Founder and Chief Product Officer at MacroFab, Inc. tells us more in this OnTrack episode. Read Article
Get the Most From Your Power Supply Design Software Power supplies can be difficult to design and layout as they require attention to safety and efficiency. Everything from isolation to thermal management needs to be considered in these systems, and designers need to have a complete set of design features to create reliable power supplies. In addition, power supplies tend to have mechanical constraints imposed by the enclosure, and these need to be considered when creating a PCB layout for a power Read Article
Guide to High Speed PCB Layout Techniques in Altium Designer High-speed PCB layout and routing can be complex and requires many diverse considerations. Important layout and routing guidelines for your design span everything from trace widths on transmission lines to ground pour clearances, return path tracking, defined characteristic impedance, and much more. Simple design software packages simply can’t handle all of these constraints at once, leaving the circuit board designer to manually check every Read Article
Complete Guide to PCB Aging Test Methods A finished PCBA that will be deployed in the field should pass several tests to ensure reliability and stable operation. Industry standards specify multiple testing methodologies, performance requirements, evaluation metrics, even test fixtures that must be used to assess electrical behavior, thermal cycling resistance, long-term thermal stability, ability to withstand thermal shock, and much more. With Altium Designer, you’ll have a complete Read Article
Design and Simulate Your Power Supply PCB With the Best ECAD Software A PCB for a power supply can be as difficult to design as high-speed networking equipment and complex embedded systems. These circuit board designs need to account for a range of behaviors and safety requirements, especially when dealing with high voltages and currents reaching the output of the power supply. In addition to safety standards involved in power supply PCBs, component selection is critical for ensuring the design can provide the Read Article
Importance of Signal Integrity for High-Speed Designs in Your ECAD Software High-speed PCB designs use digital components that have very fast edge rates in their output signals. These components are commonly called “high speed,” and the signals they source can experience significant degradation in standard PCB materials. Signal integrity for high-speed PCB designs is important for ensuring data can be passed between components on a PCB and to ensure signals can be interpreted by a receiver component. There is also the Read Article
Designing for Shock Management in Avionics PCBs Of all the electronics application areas, there is one that needs to carefully consider mechanical and thermal shocks during design: avionics. An avionics system that is put into production within a satellite, aircraft, or spacecraft can experience strong vibration and mechanical shock during flight, and these systems need to be designed with high reliability in mind. IPC standards, MIL-PRF standards, and other standards specify some design Read Article
Get Ready for WiFi 7 under the 802.11be Standard Are you ready for WiFi 7 capabilities in your new product? Learn more about the newest iteration of WiFi and what to expect from the 802.11be standard. Read Article
OnTrack Newsletter: New Dimensions Simulation, Component Management in the Cloud, Brain Food — June 2021 OnTrack Newsletter June 2021 VOL. 4 No 8 New Dimensions of PCB Simulation Until now, simulation software hasn't considered PCB manufacturability. Furthermore, the unintentional consequences that result from the lack of this information frequently leads to costly failures. Equipped with decades of academic rigor and industry experience, Keshav and Tarun Amla of Avishtech set out to solve this problem with their Gauss 2D and Gauss stack software Read Article