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via impedance calculator Why Most Via Impedance Calculators Are Inaccurate Via impedance calculators are only useful in the low frequency range, where impedance control is typically not needed. Read Article
buck converter simulation Buck Converter Simulation in Altium Designer Are you designing a step-down switching power supply? It helps to perform a buck converter simulation during circuit design. Altium Designer makes it easy to perform a buck converter simulation directly from your schematic. Read Article
pcie 6 Overview of the PCIe 6.0 Standard In this article, we give an overview of changes in the PCIe 6.0 standard as it has been currently published by PCI-SIG. Read Article
Cost Comparison: Subtractive vs. Semi-Additive Cost Comparison: Subtractive vs. Semi-Additive Expert Tara Dunn discusses the significant benefit of the 3D additive manufacturing process in space savings associated with routing at 15 or 25 microns compared to the standard 75 microns. Read now and learn more about cost comparison with the subtractive process. Read Article
The Promising and Challenging Future of 3D Printed Electronics The Promising and Challenging Future of 3D Printed Electronics The business development manager of J.A.M.E.S., Alexandre Schafer talks about the organization’s vision to push the Additively Manufactured Electronic technology to become more accessible to the industry. Read Article
SPI vs. I2C SPI vs. I2C: How to Choose the Best Protocol for Your Memory Chips Which protocol is best for accessing memory chips? The differences between SPI vs. I2C for this application will be examined in this article. Read Article
SPI Trace Impedance Is There an SPI Trace Impedance Requirement? There is no SPI trace impedance requirement or termination requirement. If this sounds surprising, read this article to see why. Read Article
Mitigating Risk Factors for PCB Manufacturing Lead Times Mitigating Risk Factors for PCB Manufacturing Lead Times How to deal with nuances in PCB design and manufacturing? In today’s episode, Dave Young the owner of Young Circuits Design and founder of BlueStamp Engineering, and Zach talk about mitigating risk factors early in the stage of electronic design. Read Article
The Skin Effect, Current Density, and the Electromagnetic Field The Skin Effect, Current Density, and the Electromagnetic Field Do you know how the skin effect alters the electric and magnetic field around a transmission line? We’ll address an important misconception in this article. Read Article
The Newest Upgrades to Altium Designer 22.7 The Newest Upgrades to Altium Designer 22.7 July 22, 2022 ONTRACK BI-WEEKLY New This Month in Altium Designer Altium Designer 22.7 gives users productivity during schematic capture with the newest productivity upgrades in the schematic editor. This month’s announcement focuses on new schematic capture upgrades: Control of Paste Mask Output for Variants - Users can now control Paste Mask outputs for a variant as part of that variant’s definition. When enabled, the paste mask for that Read Article
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