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Pierce Design’s Ethan Pierce will share his insight into reverse engineering with PCEA. We will also discuss firmware reverse engineering. Listen to the Podcast: Download this episode. Watch the Podcast: Show Highlights: Introduction to Ethan Pierce and a quick preview of his upcoming webinar with the PCEA regarding reverse-engineering How to acquire reverse-engineering skill sets? Retrofitting a system versus creating a net new...

Let’s walk down memory lane and discover how circuit boards are being manufactured back in the 50s. In this episode, we have the pleasure to have Gene Weiner, a true gem in the industry! This is a rare opportunity to learn from an expert who has helped shape the electronics industry for more than 60 years now. Watch through the end, and make sure to check out the show notes and additional resources below. Listen to the Episode: Download...

Startup companies at different stages need the right talent to build real products and take them to market. Startups often start as just a handful of people who are bootstrapping their way to success. But after receiving funding and completing a successful proof of concept, it’s time to transition from prototype to product, and that takes a team of talented engineers. When it is time to scale your team and bring your product to market, you’ll...

Altium enterprise solutions can accelerate your product development as part of a complete product realization digital thread and is uniquely positioned to enable organizations of all sizes to easily include ECAD as part of their digital transformation strategy. In this webinar, we will show how your organization can benefit from automating traditionally manual processes, including library and design data management workflows and extended design...

Raspberry Pi Pico (RP2040) is a cute piece of hardware. It is equipped with a powerful dual-core RP2040 microcontroller that offers 2M (up to 16M) Flash and 264K SRAM memories. Such specifications for an MCU make it suitable for a variety of hobby and industrial applications. In this article, I used an RP2040 Zero board, a VL53L0X Laser time-of-flight ranging sensor, and a 2.4” TFT display to build a graphical laser rangefinder unit that can...

One of the most common types of power supply issues is output voltage fluctuation. This problem is caused by various factors, including input voltage variations, unpredicted changes in the load current, feedback control loop malfunctions, switching frequency issues, component tolerances, temperature variations, and aging components.  This article will briefly explore the causes of output voltage fluctuation and provide insights on how to solve...

Sometimes 2 + 2 does NOT equal 4, sometimes the combination of two technologies can amplify the benefits of both to something far greater.  Today’s blog is going to shine a light on the combination of using both flexible materials and ultra-HDI feature sizes, specifically, trace and space that is less than 50 microns and in fact is now being produced in the United States with 20-micron trace and space using traditional printed circuit board...

Let’s set the scene: you’ve gone out of your way to attract engineering talent to apply at your company; you’ve created job postings, scoured LinkedIn, poached people from freelancing sites, and even worked with a recruiter. Now that you have a pool of decent candidates, how do you narrow down to the right PCB designer for your project? Personally, in all the hiring decisions I’ve had to make, I often think back to how others have interviewed me...

If you’re not familiar with the Zynq UltraScale+ MPSoC from XIlinx and you’re in the Embedded + FPGA space, now is the time to get acquainted with it. It comes packed with an ARM Cortex-A53 Quad core, 2 ARM Cortex-R5 cores, and an FPGA fabric all on a single system on a chip (SoC). When it first came out the barrier to entry was quite steep. Over time several companies started to introduce System on Modules (SoM) that came with board support...