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Huge Vu-meter with RGB LEDs Project A laboratory journal to guide you through the steps to develop a successful product that value-conscious customers are sure to love. Read Article

Thunderbolt Design: Adaptable High Speed Serial Data in Your PCB A new product for high speed/resolution graphics and high data transfer is a candidate for Thunderbolt design. Here’s what you can do to successfully design your PCB for Thunderbolt 3 or 4. Read Article

Developing a PCB Testing Procedure For New Designs Before your new device comes off the fabrication line, it will need to go through a comprehensive PCB testing procedure. Here’s how to create a PCB testing procedure for new boards. Read Article

Customizing Performance-Based Electrical Design Rules in Altium Designer Electrical design rules go beyond manufacturing and assembly. PCBs also require electrical design rules that are based on a signals’ electrical behavior. Read Article

Gigabit Ethernet 101: Basics to Implementation This guide is what you are looking for if you’re ready to add ethernet, especially gigabit ethernet to your electronic design and need to get up to speed. Read Article

Jumpstart Your Next Design Your project is complete and you are ready to move onto the next project. But a lot of the same properties in the new project are already completed in the previous project. There must be a quick and simple way of bringing these properties over to your next projects. Read Article

Expert Analysis of Measured S-Parameters Read to learn an introduction about S-parameter analysis. This article covers how to identify port maps, what insertion loss and return loss looks like, how the various S-parameters look in the time-domain, and some additional analysis techniques to use when data mining S-parameters. Read Article

High Performance Design Systems with SI Guru Scott McMorrow In this episode of the OnTrack Podcast, one of those world renown SI gurus, Scott McMorrow, CTO of Samtec Inc.’s Signal Integrity Group, connects with Judy Warner to discuss signal integrity concerns, and especially Samtec’s Webinar series, gEEk spEEk. Read Article

Printed Circuit Design in Altium Designer Printed Electronics is emerging to become as common as 3D printing. With this fast-emerging technology, new possibilities have come into Watch Video

How to do PCB Trace Length Matching vs. Frequency Keeping high speed signals properly timed and synchronized requires PCB trace length matching vs frequency. Here’s how it works. Read Article

Using the iPad Pro for Electronic Design Altium Concord Pro® on Altium 365 was updated with a smoother, more feature-full and more intuitive interface for the web design viewer. I want to use this occasion to share with you some of my favourite apps and websites for electronic design. Read Article

Light Pipes Explained What do you do if you need to protect your device from the elements, be that wet or dusty conditions, high humidity, or external EMI? Read Article

Holiday Gift Guide - Customer Edition Innovative gifts from Altium’s Customers to fill your new year with cheer. Read Article

Common Signal Integrity Pitfalls with Hans Klos Join us as Hans and Judy discuss the HyperLynx Connector tool, their upcoming webinar collaboration, and common signal integrity pitfalls. Read Article

59:55 Altium Designer® 21: A Better Way To Design The design process often requires repetitive work with tedious tasks. Altium Designer 21 represents a better way to design by Watch Video

When Should You Use a Flex Circuit? The two predominant reasons for using flex or rigid flex, are to solve a packaging issue or reduce the space and weight of the electronics package. These two are often interrelated and space, weight and packaging, (SWaP) will continue to be a driving force in PCB design. Read Article

How Distance Learners are Using Upverter to Learn Electrical Engineering Online Upverter Education brings distance learners together to learn electrical engineering online. Looking back on my own experiences as a student, I am amazed at the depth of subject matter in most electrical engineering courses. Today’s generation of engineering students is facing major challenges in accessing truly comprehensive courses on electronics design, especially now that so many schools are operating remotely. Distance learning in a hands-on Read Article