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Precision PCB Design Software with a Differential Line Impedance Calculator
Altium Designer’s differential line impedance calculator will set up your impedance-controlled differential pair routing widths for you. ALTIUM DESIGNER For better impedance control, use PCB design software you can trust. One thing is for sure: When you are routing a high-speed PCB design you are going to be working with impedance-controlled routing and differential pairs. There have been trace routing tools available for a long time that help
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How to Design Your PCB Test Coupon and What You Can Test
As the operating speed of components has increased, controlled impedance is becoming more common in digital, analog, and mixed-signal systems. If the controlled impedance value for an interconnect is incorrect, it can be very difficult to identify this problem during an in-circuit test. Minor mismatches may not cause a board to fail, but it can be difficult to pinpoint incorrect impedance as the cause of any test failure, especially if correct
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High-Speed Signal Routing: The 5 Important PCB Design Constraints
Your modern digital board is most likely classified as high speed, regardless of whether you looked at the datasheets for your components. Designing your board successfully will take some important steps when you begin your design. Aside from floorplanning and stackup design, your routing strategy will need to operate within some important PCB design constraints. After you capture your schematic as an initial layout and create an initial
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Understanding PCB Copper Weight and Thickness in Altium Designer
Your design needs the best PCB design tools to accurately prepare it for error-free manufacturing; your design needs Altium Designer. ALTIUM DESIGNER Officiating the process of getting your product from schematic to manufacturing with ease. At one time it was a simple process for printed circuit board designers to get their design manufactured. Board sizes and layer stacks were more generic, and usually, someone else made all the hard layer
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The Best PCB Antenna Design Software Eases Antenna Implementation
Circuit Board antenna design can be a difficult task for any software; however, that shouldn’t be a problem for Altium Designer, which can serve as your go-to BLE antenna design software and much more. ALTIUM DESIGNER Ensuring that your antenna designs are placed without issue Consumer and industrial demand have prompted the demand for smaller wireless devices. The devices support wearable technologies, Bluetooth Low Energy (BLE) applications
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PCB Temperature Won’t Overheat with Smart Checking Design Software
Board integrity can be compromised without a conscious effort by the designer to mitigate high temperature board areas. Heat management can help keep your board from catching aflame. ALTIUM DESIGNER The right board design software will go a long way in high-speed designs and beyond. The emphasis on achieving smaller product footprints has pushed multi-layer PCB designs toward higher component densities. As a result, the application of better
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Propagation Delay Calculators in High-Speed PCB Design
Propagation delay becomes an important consideration in high-speed PCB design. You’ll need to make sure that your signals remain synchronized throughout your board in order to prevent skew. A PCB design package that incorporates a propagation delay calculator as part of your design rules makes it easy to compensate for propagation delay, allowing you to focus on routing and signal integrity, rather than manually adjusting traces and calculating
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Round and Curved PCB Design in Altium Designer
Our modern lives would not be possible without electronics. Sometimes it seems like a race to be the first person to wire everything in your house onto PCBs. With the multitude of possible device shapes and sizes, circular or rounded PCBs are becoming more popular. If you want to design your next device on a round PCB, your design software needs CAD and layout tools that don’t constrain you to working on rectangular PCBs. When you work with
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Differential Pair Length Matching: Best Practices for Signal Integrity
Conceptually, differential pairs are very simple, being just a pair of equal and opposite polarity signals running on two parallel conductors. In terms of signal integrity, differential pair routing becomes progressively more difficult when frequencies get higher. At the low end of the possible range of rise time values and frequencies, timing is the main constraint, while at faster rates we see issues with skew, mode conversion, and bandwidth
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How to Perform Differential Pair Tuning in Altium Designer
In order to properly suppress common-mode noise, differential pairs should be routed in parallel with symmetry and matched lengths. Today's CAD tools make it easy to come close to all three objectives, but only if you have the right design tools. Instead of eyeing out your different pair lengths, the interactive routing tools in Altium Designer make differential pair length matching easy. You can encode permissible length mismatches as design
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Differential Pair Spacing and Crosstalk in PCB Design
Differential crosstalk causing problems in your signals? Here’s how differential signals produce crosstalk and how you can ensure differential signal integrity.
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Switchback Routing vs. Serpentine Traces Routing for Maximum Density
Choosing between switchback routing or serpentine routing means considering signal integrity and crosstalk in your board.
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PCB Trace Inductance and Width: How Wide is Too Wide?
Here’s how you can size your traces correctly and ensure they have sufficiently low PCB trace inductance.
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PCB Design in Altium Designer with Differential Data Transfer
Differential data transmission lines usage can be challenging for even experienced designers. First you need to be familiar with the
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Design to Your PCB Board Thickness Requirements
To quickly set up and work with the different PCB board thickness requirements that are before you every day, you need the best PCB Design tools available; you need Altium Designer. ALTIUM DESIGNER The most powerful, modern and easy-to-use PCB design tool for professional printed circuit board fabrication use. Incorporating the design with the fabrication process was never worth the effort as old and rigid PCB layout design tools offered little
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Efficient PCB Routing Using Gloss and Retrace Software Tools
The primary goal of your traces is to carry signals throughout your board without losses. To do this properly, you
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Types of Printed Circuit Boards
Once you start designing Printed Circuit Boards, you’ll find that different applications require have specialized design requirements. In order to meet all your design requirements without sacrificing workflow productivity, you need PCB design software that is adaptable to any design requirements. Working with the best PCB design software with a unified design interface makes it easy to define and satisfy design requirements for your specific
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