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What's With All the Layers in PCB Footprints?
Your PCB footprints contain many layers. Which of these layers are most important and what should they contain? We’ll explore in this article.
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Does Anyone Still Use DIP Components?
DIP components are less-often used in professional PCB design projects for new products, but legacy products may still need these parts.
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Everything You Need to Know about Conformal Coating
Explore the basics of conformal coating with Mark Harris. Conformal coating is a protective layer applied to electronic circuits to guard against environmental factors such as moisture and dust.
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How to Design a Bias Tee for a Power Amplifier
Bias tees are used in some RF systems to separate AC and DC power along a particular line. Learn more about bias tee design in this article.
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Inverted-F Antenna Design For a PCB
Learn how to design an inverted-F antenna for an RF PCB layout.
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How to Design an IC Carrier PCB
Carrier boards for integrated circuits can be used as interposers whenever there is an incorrect PCB land pattern.
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PCB Design Rules for Chip-on-Board Layout
There is one simple type of packaging that is not really packaging in the conventional sense: chip-on-board.
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How Do I Get Started With My Altium 365 Component Library?
In this article Ari Mahpour reviews how to put together a component library from scratch using Altium 365.
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How To Import Libraries and Manage Components With Altium 365
Nothing causes more worries for a designer than the PCB components. Your mind probably starts racing whenever you send out a design for fabrication and assembly, and phone calls start coming in. What did I forget? Did I use all of the correct components? Did I make a mistake that's going to cost the company? Can we meet the deadline to get the design respinned? Why can't I get this right? The problems you can experience with components and
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Best Methods for Calculating SMD Pad Size in PCB Design
Component creation requires accurate SMD pad sizes in your PCB footprints. See how to determine pad sizes for your SMD components.
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Footprint Creation Made Easy
Learn how to create footprint with ease using the IPC Compliant Footprint Wizard, built-in to Altium Designer. In this guide, you’ll learn how to quickly create an example SOIC-8 footprint, including automatic generation of an accurate 3D model.
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Monte Carlo Analysis With Transfer Functions in Cascaded Circuits
Pro circuit designers don’t just work with components in parallel and series when they design circuits. One way to build circuits is with circuit networks, which will have input and output ports. What happens inside each network can be analyzed in the traditional way (SPICE, by hand, etc.), but what is important is that the network maps an input voltage/current pair to an output voltage and current pair. Mathematically, this is quantified with a
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What's In Your BGA Land Pattern and Footprint
BGA land patterns aren’t always contained in a datasheet. If you need to create one of these, how large do you make the pads, solder mask, and fanout style? Learn more in this article.
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MIDs Make a Comeback as Vertical SMD Modules for Your PCB
If you’ve ever wanted to mount components vertically, but without the expense of a flex section, use an MID in your PCB.
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What Is Solder Mask Expansion and Which Value Should You Use?
The solder stop mask layer caps off the PCB and provides a protective film over copper on the surface layers. Solder mask needs to be pulled back from landing pads on the surface layer so that you have a surface where components can be mounted and soldered. This removal of the solder mask from a pad on the top layer should extend some distance around the edge of the pad, creating either NSMD or SMD pads for your components. How far back should
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Guide to Ceramic Capacitor Dielectrics and Other Types
Capacitor electrical behavior is determined, in part, by the capacitor dielectric. Learn all about capacitor dielectrics in this article.
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Creating High Pin Count Schematic Symbols Quickly
Making schematic symbols is quick and painless when you use regular expressions and leverage Altium Designer’s expansive toolkit.
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