Determine the Value of the JTAG Interface During Schematics Stage Read Article How Integrated Tools Ease Multi-board PCB Systems Design If you’ve ever taken apart a computer, then you know that the entire system can’t fit on a single PCB. The most complicated devices used in a variety of applications are multi-board systems, and designing these systems takes imagination, planning, and the right design software. Rigid-flex PCBs are just another type of multi circuit board system, and the same design concepts when designing each portion of the board, as well as the flex ribbon that Read Article Pipelining Your Design File Process: Component Selection Using automated PCB component selection features, you can pipeline your design file process. Learn how the Manufacturer Part Search panel can help simplify PCB design. Read Article 38:45 Altium Keynote: Altium Designer 19 Learn about the latest innovations in Altium Designer 19 with David Haboud and David Marrakchi. Sign up to pre-register for AltiumLive next year or try Altium Designer today. Watch Video 1:17:12 Thomas Wischnack Industry Keynote: Troubleshooting Your Designs This presentation details the development of high reliability base materials for PCBs with a focus on thermal performance, reliability and signal integrity. Classification by application as a method of substrate selection will be explored. This methodology gives the designer the flexibility to select the appropriate substrate for an application without over engineering performance that is neither required nor can be afforded. The presentation Watch Video 45:47 Max Seeley Industry Keynote: PCB Layout Starts in the Schematics The days of indecipherable schematics are over. By utilizing the features in Altium Designer, it is now possible to create simplified schematics that contain a wealth of information. Modern schematics serve as the single source of truth for an electrical design. Learn to utilize these tools coupled with best practices to create robust PCB layouts. View Max Seeley's presentation slides: Sign up to pre-register for AltiumLive next year or try Watch Video 25:55 Interactive Properties Panel Webinar Watch Video 37:01 The Connected Future of PCB Design: Introducing Altium 365 The future of PCB design has arrived. Learn more about what's coming next in Altium 365 in the keynote video above, or in the clips below. Let us know what you think in the comments. Leigh Gawne Introducing Altium 365 Workspaces and Projects in Altium 365 Layout Support in Altium 365 Leigh Gawne on Collaboration and Communication BOM Management in Altium 365 Leigh Gawne on Altium 365's BOM Analyzer Altium 365 Connecting Designers and Watch Video 59:07 Alun Morgan Industry Keynote: PCB Base Material Properties and Developments This presentation details the development of high reliability base materials for PCBs with a focus on thermal performance, reliability and signal integrity. Classification by application as a method of substrate selection will be explored. This methodology gives the designer the flexibility to select the appropriate substrate for an application without over engineering performance that is neither required nor can be afforded. The presentation Watch Video 1:30:35 Dan Beeker Industry Keynote: Electromagnetic Fields for Normal Folks It’s All About the Space! Basic principles of electromagnetic fields, presented in easy to understand language with plenty of diagrams. Discover how understanding EM field behavior allows you to design more robust PCBs with better EMC performance. This is not rocket science, but an easy to understand discussion of how to use PCB geometry to control the fields. This session will, after an introduction to EM field behavior, describe several Watch Video Design Guidelines for Your Next Wireless PCB As a child, I used to watch Star Trek and always marveled at all the technology. Anything wireless on the show was particularly fascinating, especially to a 5-year old. As I aged, and as so many cool things from science fiction became reality, I realized that all these capabilities start with great PCB design. Whether you’re building a better Wifi router, GPS system, or two-way radio, you’ll need to decide which type of antenna to use and how to Read Article How Autorouters Help Expedite Traces Design Routing traces around on your PCB is like knitting a quilt. Not only can it take forever, but it requires very precise steps to ensure that all your stitches fit together seemlessly. If you get your stitches wrong, then everything can fall apart. Just like we have automatic threading sewing machines that increase productivity, autorouters can do the same for your PCB. But be wary: not all autorouters have the same capabilities. The best PCB Read Article Electronic Component Distributors Harnessing the Power of One-Stop Shopping Every year, I spend time working on my house and car to keep them maintained. Trips to the hardware store include adding parts to my stash at home and I try to keep the trips to a minimum so I can enjoy my downtime. There’s nothing worse than chilling to tunes in my garage on a warm summer day only to find that I don’t have a part. Dropping everything to make a run to the hardware store means completely disrupting my afternoon. So managing my Read Article Win at Power Delivery System Design This article is intended to define the new challenges and provide guidance in how to successfully engineer the Power Delivery System (PDS) so it meets the needs of new technologies. As integrated circuit technology has made it possible to put billions of transistors on a single IC it has resulted in very powerful systems on a chip. This has made it possible to put the equivalent of supercomputers inside video games, cell phones and a host of Read Article Confused About Differential Signaling or Clocks? Check out this quick snippet of the Altium Podcast with guru of high speed design Lee Ritchey The primary reason that differential signaling is dominating the digital world is that far higher data bandwidths can be achieved over a pair of wires than with parallel, single-ended signaling protocols. The Internet as we know it would not be possible without differential signaling. This information is intended to clear up any confusion about Read Article Everything You Need for Successful PCB Stackup Design There are three demands placed on stackup design: controlled impedance, crosstalk control and the need for interplane capacitance. Some fabricators could get the impedance right in a stackup, but there is no way for them to account for the other two. This responsibility rests with the design engineer who is the only one who knows what is needed and how to implement the needed control. This information is intended to provide guidance on the Read Article Noise Transfer is Annoying in PCBs, Learn How to Contain Crosstalk from expert Lee Ritchey The words crosstalk and coupling are used to describe the injection of electromagnetic energy from one transmission line to another running nearby. In printed circuit boards crosstalk is usually two traces running side by side in the same layer or one over the top of the other in adjacent layers. This coupled energy appears as noise on the victim trace and can cause malfunctions if the amplitude is too large. Learn how this noise is transferred Read Article Pagination First page « First Previous page ‹‹ Page114 Current page115 Page116 Page117 Page118 Page119 Next page ›› Last page Last » Load More