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When you’re just getting started on your adventures in PCB design, you’ll eventually need to test your prototype boards. Prototyping and testing are very important tasks for any designer, but you need to have the right set of equipment to ensure you can get accurate results. In this article, I’ll go over some of the basic test equipment that new engineers should have in order to test and debug their prototype boards. We’re not talking about...

We are very fortunate to have Dr. Eyal Weiss for today’s episode. He is the CTO and founder of Cybord, an AI tool for detecting counterfeit hardware and electrical components. This is a very exciting conversation. We will talk about a better, practical applications of AI in the electronics industry, outside of design. Watch through the end and make sure to check all the additional links and resources below. Listen to the Podcast: Download...

Electronics manufacturing, like many industries, has made great strides to become more environmentally friendly over time. More experienced readers probably remember the Pb-free movement to eliminate Pb from many consumer and commercial products, including solder alloys and platings in PCBAs. Now the focus has shifted to perfluoroalkyl and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS), particularly because the health risks associated with PFAS have become...

Is there a need for a photonic iPhones and smartphones? We have a very interesting topic today with our guest Daniel Pérez López, the CTO and Co-Founder of iPRONICS, programmable photonics. “When we refer to programmable photonics, we are referring to the ability of first being able to integrate light signals into a semiconductor chip that is widely known as integrated photonics, integrated optics.” -Daniel Perez Lopez Tune in now and watch...

In this installment of the open-source laptop project, we will take a closer look at the cooling system. First, we will focus on the airflow inside the device and find out what we need to consider to meet the requirements defined in the previous article. {"preview_thumbnail":"/sites/default/files/styles/video_embed_wysiwyg_preview/public/video_thumbnails/O0xn2-kPL4o.jpg?itok=SkZpEUXp","video_url":"https://youtu.be/O0xn2-kPL4o","settings":{...

In this Altium Designer demonstration, we will show you the most basic functionality and benefits that Altium Designer offers.

This recording starts with a PowerPoint presentation of the Power Analyzer, followed by a demonstration in Altium Designer. The demonstration begins with a step-by-step approach to configuring a simulation network, followed by two configuration examples. The first example demonstrates a current density issue, the 2nd example demonstrates a voltage drop issue and how this can be resolved. The recording also shows the key features of the tool. The...

  By now it’s been a few months for folks to get acquainted with Generative AI and, most famously, ChatGPT. In my last article, Using ChatGPT for Automated Testing, I introduced the ChatGPT service, showed you how to get familiar with it, and use it to generate code to run tests on your hardware. In this article we’re going to look at how to best utilize ChatGPT to write DelphiScript code to run automated functions within Altium itself using A...

Simulation tools are extremely useful for understanding electromagnetic behavior in a design. Simulations speed up your analysis tasks and they give you the opportunity to identify simple errors before they ruin a design’s functionality. As long as the simulation you create can accurately reflect the actual situation in your circuit board, you can rest assured the results will be reasonably accurate when replicated in experiment. Unfortunately...