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Design Philosophy in Printed Electronics Manufacturing 8 min Blog Electrical Engineers

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Optimize performance or manufacturability? Explore key trade-offs in Printed Electronics Manufacturing and how design choices impact resistance, materials, production.

The Shrinking Manufacturing Cycle 3 min Engineering News

Traditionally, an engineering cycle has been considered to be on the order of 18 months. That’s the time between generations

Lies Your Fabricator May Have Told You 10 min Blog

In some of our previous articles, we have talked about the various things that go wrong when a board design

Methods For Calculating And Measuring Impedance, Part 2 11 min Blog

In Part 1 of this article, I reviewed the four basic types of PCB transmission lines and the various equations

Transmission Line Properties That Affect Impedance—Hidden Features 6 min Blog

Here and in several other articles published on the Altium Resource section of the company’s website, the topic of transmission

Stubs On Transmission Lines—What Do They Do And How Do You Keep Them From Happening? 9 min Blog

In other articles we have written PCB Design For Test Structures And Tests Performed, Part 2, and How to Control

Three Common PCB Design Mistakes You Can Spot in Your Gerbers 7 min Thought Leadership

Spotting some common PCB design mistakes will help get your board into production faster I’ll admit that I was not