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Imagine discovering a critical design flaw in your product after it's already in production. Worse still, imagine trying to trace the origin of that flaw through thousands of requirements, design decisions, and modifications spread across multiple systems and teams. This nightmare scenario plays out more often than most electronics companies care to admit, leading to costly recalls, damaged reputations, and missed market opportunities. The...

In the fast-evolving world of electronics, collaboration is key to efficient product development and innovation. Altium Designer 25 (AD25) emerges as a powerful platform designed to bridge traditional gaps, enabling seamless collaboration across teams and improving the efficiency of high-complexity PCB projects. This article explores how AD25’s new and enhanced capabilities—spanning PCB CoDesign, Product Design with Harness and Multi-board...

You're sitting in a conference room, waiting for your contract manufacturer's account team to show up. They're late. Again. This is the third delay this month, and your product launch is less than two weeks away. As your frustration builds, you can't help but wonder if this partnership was a mistake. In this article, we'll reveal five critical rules that could have prevented this situation—and show you how to avoid it in the future by choosing...

Forget everything you've heard about rivalry between engineers and product managers—it's a paradigm that needs to die. Today's tech world moves too fast, and the only way forward is through give-and-take collaboration. This article uncovers six ways engineers and PMs can avoid butting heads and stay focused on the mission. 1. PMs: Share the Big Picture; Engineers: Share Technical Constraints Give: PMs can help engineers by providing a clear...

High-speed interfaces like TX and RX lines for SFP connectors, PCIe lanes, and Media Independent Interface (MII) routing use AC coupling capacitors between drive and receive components. AC coupling capacitors perform a simple function: they remove DC bias from a differential signal so that the differential voltage sensed at the receiver is within a certain range. The receiver can restore its own DC bias offset on the received differential signal...

Today’s increasingly dense and complex designs combined with tighter logic-level noise margins are increasingly susceptible to power distribution network (PDN) issues because they require very stable power delivery to reliably function. Left unchecked, PDN issues can result in failed EMI compliance certification, delayed product introduction and intermittent field failures. Rather than treating PDN issues as a post-prototype design consideration...

There is a hidden ChatGPT tool that can save you countless hours of manual work. Custom GPTs may be the best-kept secret in the AI world for procurement professionals. Want to know how they work and what they can do for you? Keep reading to find out. Why ChatGPT Is a Big Deal (And What's Next) First, let's update ChatGPT's evolution with several key milestones: GPT-3.5 (November 2022): Public release of ChatGPT, which quickly gained massive...

Large Language Models (LLMs) have seen extensive use in software development. We’ve seen several impressive examples on the main Altium blog. But the use of AI in engineering fields beyond software has been slower to develop. There is, however, one area of hardware development where AI can provide huge benefits: AI requirements management. If you think about how engineering requirements work, they tend to live in large documents filled with text...

The global electronics manufacturing sector is always grappling with economic volatility, shifting demand, and geopolitical uncertainty. Here's a quick guide to the latest economic news affecting electronics and some actionable steps for managing procurement and supply chain impacts. Economic Slowdown in the North American Electronics Sector Just the Facts The North American printed circuit board (PCB) sector has faced significant headwinds in...