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PCB connectors shock-resistant Altium Designer Makes Connector Creation and Placement Easy See how you can select, find, and place shock-resistant PCB connectors in your layout with Altium Designer. Read Article
56:38 Designing PCBs 5x Faster Despite the Pandemic | Customer Success | Kinetic Vision Kinetic Vision, a Cincinnati-based design, engineering, and development firm, is an innovator’s one-stop shop for transforming even the wildest ideas Watch Video
MOSFETs in series Should You Use Power MOSFETs in Series? In this article, we look in greater depth at how to properly use combinations of MOSFETs in series compared to their use in parallel. Read Article
Comparing All Serial Communications Protocols Comparing All Serial Communications Protocols At the end of this series, we summarize the advantages and disadvantages of each type of Serial Communication Protocol available to transfer information between microcontrollers, data-producing, and data-processing peripherals, and other intelligent devices. Read Article
Data-Driven Smart Manufacturing 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
multiphase buck converter RF power supply Designing a Multiphase Buck Converter for an RF Power Supply Consider a multiphase buck converter for the regulator stage in your RF power supply. Alongside envelope tracking, you can ensure high efficiency power delivery and transmission. Read Article
best circuit design software Use the Best Circuit Design Software With SPICE and Schematic Capture Use the best circuit design software to create your next electronic design and start your PCB layout. Read Article
Serial Communications Protocols - CAN and LIN 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
PCB manufacturing impedance control PCB Manufacturing and Impedance Control: How to Specify Your Requirements 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
DNP in BOM and PCB assembly Best Practices for Using DNI/DNP Entries in Your PCB BOM You can use the DNI/DNP designation on components in your PCB BOM to create design variants as long as you’ve created your layout correctly. Read Article
Flexible Circuits: Getting Started Flexible Circuits: Getting Started 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 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
LDO efficiency Testing the Limits of Your LDO's Efficiency The efficiency of your LDO isn’t a fixed value, but neither is your maximum current output. Read about your LDO efficiency curve to better see why LDOs have narrow operating ranges. Read Article
High current switched mode power supply PCB layout Switched-Mode Power Supply PCB Layout Guidelines Create and simulate your design and follow these switched-mode power supply PCB layout guidelines. Read Article
PCB power plane routing 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
MOSFET Power dissipation calculator 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 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