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The EMC Doctor is in: Ken Wyatt on EMI and PCB Health The EMC Doctor is in: Ken Wyatt on EMI and PCB Health The OnTrack Podcast welcomes Ken Wyatt (also known as ‘the EMC Doctor’). Ken is an EMC Engineer, a prolific author on EMI/EMC related topics, and an industry consultant. Read Article
Industry 4.0 artificial intelligence applications Industry 4.0, Artificial Intelligence, and IoT in Manufacturing When it comes to electronics, consumer devices like smartphones and Alexa tend to get all the attention. However, according to Alun Morgan at Ventec International Group, “about 23% of PCBs produced worldwide are used in electronics equipment for manufacturing applications.” The numbers only go up when you include other non-consumer categories that support manufacturing operations, such as automotive, telecom, power generation/distribution, and Read Article
Stealth aircraft and quantum radar NVIDIA Jetson Nano: Lane Detection and Tracking Autonomous vehicles are slowly becoming an important part of the automotive industry. Many believe fully autonomous vehicles will soon be driving alongside humans, and technology companies are in a race to deploy fully autonomous vehicles. In December 2018, Waymo, the company that emerged from Google’s self-driving car project, officially started its commercial self-driving car service in the suburbs of Phoenix. Companies like May Mobility, Drive Read Article
Make Production Outputs a Breeze with Altium Designer’s Netlist in PCB Design Production and output files are necessary for getting your designs out into the world. Ensure that your design software is taking care to make this process as simple and easy as possible. ALTIUM DESIGNER An optimal PCB design software for your circuit board needs. As your PCB design transitions from schematic to layout and then to production, providing the right amount of intelligence for manufacturers becomes a high priority. You can add Read Article
Understanding PCB Copper Thickness in Altium Designer Understanding Copper Weight and Thickness in PCB Design 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 configuration choices for you. It is a completely different game now with multi-layer PCB designs ranging from two to over thirty layers. In addition, trace widths, ground planes, hole sizes, substrate materials, characteristic impedance Read Article
Fundamental Approach to PCB Antenna Design 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 Read Article
The Best EDA Software for PCB Design The Best Electronic Design Automation (EDA) Software for PCB Design You don’t have time for underperforming electronic design automation (EDA) tools that are difficult to learn and use, you need the best EDA software for PCB design automation that you can get; Altium Designer, available within Altium Develop. But what is EDA software? You’ve got a job that needs to be done and that means the printed circuit board design is your responsibility. You don’t have time for EDA PCB design tools that are underpowered and Read Article
PCB Temperature Won’t Overheat with Smart Checking Design Software 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 Read Article
Propagation Delay Calculators in High-Speed PCB Design 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 Read Article
PCB Panelization Software Creating Panels With PCB Panelization Software When PCBs are manufactured, they are placed into a panel which is built from sheets of PCB dielectric materials and copper. The stack-up in a panel matches the stack-up in your PCB design, and multiple copies of the PCB are arranged in the panel to produce the desired volume. Multiple software applications can be used to create the mechanical drawing and artwork for a panel. Some of this software is specialized CAM software, or a panel can be Read Article
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