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Vincent Mazur

Vincent Mazur, BSEE is a Product & Persona Marketing Engineer at Altium. Prior to joining Altium, he co-founded a scientific electronic instrument business where he architected and designed handheld, battery-operated products using Altium Designer. Vincent has over 25 years of combined experience in the electronics industry designing hardware and software for embedded systems and in the EDA industry assisting companies in optimizing their electronic product development processes. He has been a contributing writer for EE Times and is an FCC licensed amateur radio operator.

Recent Articles

Avoiding Supply Chain Issues with Variants & Live BOM Part Choices - AltiumLive 2022 Vincent Mazur demonstrates how to use Altium tools to navigate the pitfalls and problems of Component Shortages. Watch Video

9:29 What Is BOM Management? Improving Supply Chain Success It’s no secret that component shortages have become more frequent this year. In fact, countries around the world are losing billions in revenue due to supply issues. According to EPSNews , “In 2021, there’s such a severe shortage of semiconductors that the automotive industry is set to lose more than $100 billion in sales because it can’t get chips.” Having the right components on hand is more crucial than ever as availability, obsolescence Watch Video

How to Scope and Prioritize your PCB design rules Design rules are a must for any PCB design, but for them to be active and effective they need to Watch Video

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Challenges of the Electronics Industry 2021 With the challenges of 2020 behind us, what challenges and opportunities lie ahead for hardware designers in 2021? In this article Vince Mazur, Technical Product Marketing Engineer at Altium, looks ahead to three emerging trends and share steps to address each one successfully in the year ahead. Introduction It's an understatement to say that 2020 is a year that we won't soon forget. Last year imposed many new challenges on all of us-- Read Article

31:31 Transmission Line Impedance Calculation With Altium Designer Today’s PCBs contain many transmission lines. Combine this with increased clock frequencies and data rates and the result is a critical challenge to high-speed design. Neglecting these dynamics can undermine product development by compromising performance, power consumption, EMC/EMI compliance, and more - leading to delayed design cycles and opening gaps that can be exploited by your competition. Hone your high-speed design skills by joining us as we discuss the typical transmission lines encountered in today’s designs, the PCB variables that affect impedance, as well as how to create, calculate, and design transmission lines in Altium Designer. Learn how to maximize the built in SIMBEOR® engine by Simberian to craft impedance profiles and manage transmission lines in your designs. This Live Webinar recording covers the following: Current trends in electronics development PCB transmission line model and impedance calculations Transmission line with specified impedance in Altium Designer Don’t pass up on this opportunity to experience the industry’s best in class design experience! Watch Video

18:44 Exploring Altium Designer's Project Releaser Webinar What is the Altium Project Releaser? The Project Releaser is a single-click automation of manufacturing output generation built on top Watch Video

37:15 Altium Designer: Key Benefits of ActiveBOM Webinar What is ActiveBOM? ActiveBOM is an editor in Altium Designer that sits alongside, in importance, with the schematic and PCB Watch Video

Exploring Altium Designer's Project Releaser

Exploring Altium Designer's Project Releaser What is the Altium Product Releaser? The Project Releaser is a single-click automation of manufacturing output generation built on top of Altium Designer^® ’s Output Job functionality to render complete release packages to a file folder structure, zip file or Altium Vault^®/ Altium NEXUS^® managed server. If you were unable to attend the August 9th live Project Releaser webinar, you can view the video above or the presentation slides at your Read Article

Altium Designer® 18: Key Benefits of ActiveBOM – Webinar Recap - June 26th

Altium Designer® 18: Key Benefits of ActiveBOM – Webinar Recap - June 26th ActiveBOM^® provides a tool for getting real-time insight into the parts you need for your designs, and it supports “early and often” monitoring of your BOM to prevent manufacturing delays and setbacks. Additionally, it assists in identifying part choices that can be risky, such as the Not Recommended for New Design (NRFND) and End of Life (EOL) components shown in the demonstration. Best of all, it’s already part of Altium Designer 18 and there’s Read Article

Altium Designer® 18: Key Benefits of ActiveBOM

Altium Designer® 18: Key Benefits of ActiveBOM If you were unable to attend the July 19th live ActiveBOM^® webinar, you can view the the presentation slides and video recording at your convenience. If you prefer, you can also review the summary below for the session highlights. I briefly discussed some of the challenges design engineers encounter as they search for, select and source parts for designs. Then, I introduced ActiveBOM and provided a demonstration, followed by a summary and Q&A Read Article

Migrating From Autodesk Eagle™ to Altium Designer®

Migrating From Autodesk Eagle™ to Altium Designer® For the purpose of this migration guide we are going to focus on importing Eagle PCB Designs, if you require other files migrated, please refer to their specific guide. Preparing to Migrate Your Legacy Data Never forget that migration of data follows the “garbage in…. more garbage out” principle. So, we need to consider four distinct phases of the process, this is best shown in the flow diagram below: Step 1: Prepare Original Data - Pre Read Article