About Author

Tuomas Heikkila

Tuomas Heikkila is an electronics engineer with 15+ years’ experience. He holds MSc of Electronics from University of Oulu. During his career, Tuomas has designed hundreds of PCBs, flexes and printed electronics designs for automotive, industrial and consumer electronics. But it is not just designing, but he has spent thousands of hours in the lab verifying his PCBs not only by traditional oscilloscopes, VNAs and spectrum analyzers, but also validating these against environmental effects and EMC in an anechoic chamber. For electronics designs, in addition to Altium Designer, Tuomas utilizes full 3D electromagnetic/thermal simulator in PCB design flow for PDN, SI and temperature analysis.

Recent Articles

Electrical design rules

Customizing Performance-Based Electrical Design Rules in Altium Designer 8 min Altium Designer Projects PCB Design Engineers

PCB Design Engineers

PCB Design Engineers

PCB Design Engineers Electrical design rules go beyond manufacturing and assembly. PCBs also require electrical design rules that are based on a signals’ electrical behavior.

Know the Power Dissipation

How to Calculate Power Dissipation 10 min Blog Understanding the power dissipation of an individual component, an electrical block, or even the whole electronics system is essential for

PCB routing techniques

Altium Designer 20 Changed My PCB Routing Techniques 8 min Blog I just finalized my first PCB design using Altium Designer 20®. At the same time, I tested some new AD20

Design Philosophy in Printed Electronics Manufacturing

Design Philosophy in Printed Electronics Manufacturing 8 min Blog Electrical Engineers

Electrical Engineers

Mechanical Designers

Electrical Engineers

Electrical Engineers

Mechanical Designers

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

Know the Bandwidth

Know the Bandwidth: How to Find Bandwidth of a Signal 9 min Blog This article relates to both printed electronics and PCBs. I acquired my bandwidth design techniques working in PCB design, and

Designing Printed Electronics with Altium

Designing Printed Electronics with Altium 9 min Blog Electrical Engineers

Electrical Engineers

Manufacturing Engineers

Electrical Engineers

Electrical Engineers

Manufacturing Engineers

Manufacturing Engineers Design printed electronics with Altium using purpose-built tools for stack-ups, dielectrics, routing, and manufacturing-ready outputs.