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RF Trace Taper How to Design an RF Trace Taper for Impedance Matching Transmission line taper structures can provide superior impedance matching between two transmission lines with approximately real impedance. Read Article
Supply Chain Strategy for PCB Designer Supply Chain Strategy for PCB Designer Supply chain management expert Chris Cain shares his 37 years of experience and strategies to overcome electronic part shortages. Read Article
Reflectionless Matching vs. Conjugate Matching Reflectionless Matching vs. Conjugate Matching: An Apparent Contradiction Are reflectionless matching and conjugate matching contradictory? When we look at the formulation for power waves and S-parameters, we see where these are different. Read Article
Altium Designer 22.9 Brings New Productivity Features For Commenting and Design Reuse Altium Designer 22.9 Brings New Productivity Features For Commenting and Design Reuse October 14, 2022 ONTRACK BI-WEEKLY What’s New in Altium Designer? The newest enhancements in Altium Designer 22.9 include design reuse updates, a variant update, and a new feature in the footprint editor: Variant improvement in schematics - AD22.9 brings even more improvements to variant creation and management. New tools help streamline creation and management of design variants. Add comments to your BOM - The Comments feature can now be used in Read Article
Quarter-Wave Transformer Quarter-Wave Transformer Design For Real and Reactive Loads All quarter-wavelength transformers can be used for real loads, but some can be used for reactive loads with an additional transmission line section. Read Article
Streamlining Product Development Process for Successful Launch Streamlining Product Development Process for Successful Launch Ben and Connor of Aptus Design Works shares some great advice for both designers and companies to streamline their product development process from prototyping to manufacturing. Read Article
Link Budget Calculator RF Signal Chain and Link Budget Basics Learn about link budget in RF design and use our link budget calculator to evaluate your RF signal chain. Read Article
Buck Converter Component Sizing Buck Converter Component Sizing An overview of what calculations are required when sizing components for a switching buck converter. Read Article
Try These New Features in Altium Designer 22.9 Try These New Features in Altium Designer 22.9 September 23, 2022 ONTRACK BI-WEEKLY What’s New in Altium Designer? The newest enhancements in Altium Designer 22.9 include design reuse updates, a variant update, and an extension of commenting features: Variant improvement in schematics - AD22.9 brings even more improvements to variant creation and management. New tools help streamline creation and management of design variants. Add comments to your BOM - The much-loved commenting feature is Read Article
USB High Speed (ULPI) Routing USB High Speed (ULPI) Routing Learn what ULPI is for USB High Speed interfaces, as well as best practices for routing this bus on a PCB. Read Article
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