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Weekly Digest: Optimize Your Documentation and Workflow Weekly Digest: Optimize Your Documentation and Workflow Get the latest information from Industry Experts, Altium webinars, videos and more to help you maximize your productivity. We know it takes a lot to go from design to assembly and fabrication so we’re working on providing the most in-depth information to help designers with the most challenging questions. Let us know what questions keep you up at night or consider joining our expert team of writers. New Articles on the PCB Design Blog Check out Read Article
Selecting FR4 Alternative Materials for Multilayer PCB Substrates Selecting FR4 Alternatives of PCB Substrate Materials for Multilayer Boards You don’t have to settle for FR4 for your next multilayer PCB. Read more on selecting other PCB substrate materials. Read Article
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What to Look for in a Board Fabricator with Steve Williams What to Look for in a Board Fabricator with Steve Williams Steve Williams, President of TRAC shares his tips on what to look for in terms of certifications to source the ideal, reliable board fabricator supplier who will get the job done. Watch full episode. Read Article
Flexible Circuit Stiffener Options Flexible Circuit PCB Stiffener Options It is common for a flexible circuit stack-up to include a PCB stiffener, read about the different PCB stiffener options here. Read Article
Surfing 3D PCB CAD from Inside the Grey Tsunami Surfing 3D PCB CAD from Inside the Grey Tsunami APEX San Diego – Riding my long skateboard through the streets of the Gaslamp I must have been quite a sight in my suit and tie. Fresh off the IPC APEX show floor, I was carving turns through traffic, heading back to my hotel after spending several hours discussing the positive wave of 3D PCB CAD with some industry colleagues. Suddenly, I heard two guys laugh and shout at me from the crowded street corner: “Hey, you’re too old to be ridin’ a Read Article
Project Management Tools Project Management Tools My first opportunity to use a project management technique was the Gantt Chart as part of my Engineering Senior Project while in college. At that time, it was all manual. Today, numerous software packages offer it along with other project visibility techniques (Figure 1): Gantt Chart Pert Chart Critical Path Analysis Affinity Diagrams Gap Analysis TimeLine Figure 1. Some of the visualization tools used for project management [1]. No matter what Read Article
Preparing Documentation for Output – Who needs What? Preparing Documentation For Output – Who Needs What? While there are many ways to develop documentation for a board, it is important to realize the need to give separate information to each manufacturing process. Read this article to learn more. Read Article
Team Development for PCB Designers Team Development for PCB Designers There Are Lots of I’s in The Word Team The old adage is there is no “i” in the word team. But, in reality, there are a lot of “I’s”—interface, interaction, intercommunication and integration to name a few. In today’s global supply chain (I use the acronym GSC) economy, product development rarely, if ever, rests with just a handful of individuals or even a handful of companies. In the highly competitive electronics market sector, there are Read Article
Rigid Outer-Layers to Reduce Cost Rigid Outer-Layers to Reduce Cost Why is a 4-layer Rigid Flex Less Expensive than 3-layer Rigid Flex? Designing flex and rigid-flex can be tricky. Not only do you need to design for a product that will bend, fold and flex, you are working with different materials and fabrication processes. Plusm it is difficult to clearly communicate how the part should flex in final application. Typically, the goal is to use the most cost-effective stack up that meets both your electrical and Read Article
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