Data-Driven Smart Manufacturing In this episode, Andrew Scheuermann, CEO, and Co-founder of Arch, shares his company’s mission to drive digitization and sustainable innovation in electronics manufacturing. Read Article Serial Communications Protocols - CAN and LIN In this article, Part 8 in our series of articles looking at different Serial Communication Protocols, we discuss the popular CAN and LIN protocols combined. Read Article Impedance Control: How to Specify Your Requirements for PCB Manufacturers PCB manufacturing houses can easily accommodate impedance control requirements as long as you can specify requirements clearly. Here’s what to tell your fabricator. Read Article Flex Circuit Design Guide: Getting Started with Flexible Circuits Expert Tara Dunn tackles in detail the key benefits driving designers to use flexible materials. Read now to learn more. Read Article Bogatin’s “Practical Guide to” Book Series Eric Bogatin, the Dean of Signal Integrity Academy, is here to talk about empowering PCB designers to become their own experts. Eric also shares the inspiration behind his new book. Read Article What is PCB Routing? Learn about PCB routing techniques and how to design traces to proper routing in any device. You can access the best PCB routing features in Altium Designer. Read Article Online Circuit Block Diagram Maker: Your Guide to Building PCBs with Altium Designer Some PCB design software packages make you feel like you’ve been bamboozled. On one hand, you’re told that you’ll have access to tools that will let you move through the entire design process. Then all of a sudden, you can’t finish your design without purchasing critical features as add-ons. Only Altium Designer integrates all the best design tools in a single circuit diagram maker. You can get access to free versions that include critical design Read Article Switched-Mode Power Supply PCB Design Guidelines Create and simulate your design and follow these switched-mode power supply PCB layout guidelines. Read Article Should You Route Signals in Your PCB Power Plane? Before you cut up your PCB power plane with signals, pay attention to things like impedance control power plane current capacity to ensure reliability. Read Article Using SPICE as a MOSFET Power Dissipation Calculator The circuit design and simulation features in Altium Designer can be your MOSFET power dissipation calculator. Read Article Test-Driven Development for Embedded Systems What is Hardware-in-the-loop testing and how it can save you time and resources when designing your board? Watch this podcast episode with Ari Mahpour to learn more. Read Article How to Use Input Impedance in Circuits and Transmission Lines The concept of input impedance is used to understand power transfer and matching in complex interconnects. Read Article Altium Designer Helps You Track Reference Designators on Your PCB Make sure you use the correct reference designators in your PCB and in your drawings, schematic sheets, and circuit board layout. Read Article Low Cost Solutions for Hardware in the Loop Testing Automation A project overview demonstrating low-cost solutions for automated hardware in the loop testing using the Pytest framework Read Article Utilizing a PCB Transmission Line Calculator Makes Design Easier PCB transmission line calculators are a dime a dozen, giving you the tools you need to calculate lossless impedance, lossless propagation delay, or simple things like DC resistance. These quantities are nice to know, but they don't tell you the whole story about your design. Online calculators are also known to give incorrect results when used for impedance calculations, especially because they cannot consider fundamental phenomena like Read Article Step Up Into Altium Designer from PCAD The original goal of PCAD, to give PCB designers the best tools possible, lives on today in Altium. Altium Designer is made for designers like you and will import your legacy PCAD designs so you can continue your work. ALTIUM DESIGNER CAD software that will continue through the years. Back in 1982, an innovative new PCB design software CAD tool called P-CAD was introduced to the world. This PCAD PCB design tool quickly outgrew its competition and Read Article Altium Designer’s Free PCB Viewer Download Allows You to Explore Your BRD Files Today, it almost seems that there are as many PCB design file formats as there are PCB manufacturers. Using a custom file format is advantageous when working with the originating company’s program. However, there are many times when you need the capability to view or use non-native files. This can be a challenge when working with most PCB software companies, but not Altium. Altium offers a free online BRD file viewer powered by the Altium 365 Read Article Pagination First page « First Previous page ‹‹ Page50 Current page51 Page52 Page53 Page54 Page55 Next page ›› Last page Last » Load More