About Author

Diego Petracca

Diego Petracca leads the hardware development team in Toradex AG, a global company founded in Switzerland. Toradex offers Arm® System on Modules (SoMs) and focuses on the ease of handling highly reliable embedded systems.
Mr. Petracca holds a Bachelor of Science degree in Electronic Engineering and a Master of Science degree in Mechatronic Engineering from the Politecnico di Torino.
During his career with Toradex thus far, he has been extensively involved in the Altium designs of all the carrier boards and accessories of Toradex SoMs.

Recent Articles

The Rough Journey of a Hardware Engineer and Assembly Options Life, for a hardware engineer, is a continuous battle. Every day, every single decision, circuit, connection, net, trace, VIA or pad is a fight between Physics and the demanding, albeit important requirement that has been thrown on the desk by the archenemy of the poor hardware engineer: the colleague working for the marketing team. A good (and at the same time sobering!) thing is that Physics always wins. The task of the hardware engineer is Read Article