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Choosing Equivalent ICs in Your PCB How to Find Equivalent ICs in Your PCB When I was younger, I would routinely open up old or broken electronics just to see how they worked. I didn’t start to understand how they worked until I was older, but I always marvelled at the mass of components and the complexity with which they were laid out on a circuit board. I would even have fun connecting from different devices in the hopes that I could resurrect a broken device. ICs in your PCB have a number of specifications that must Read Article
Adding Fabrication Tolerance Options to Your Manufacturer Deliverables PCB Manufacturing Tolerances: Adding Fabrication Tolerance Options to Your Manufacturer Deliverables Much as we would like, no manufacturing process is perfect. Every process produces slight errors in part sizes or placement, and PCBs are no different. Since some PCB applications have very tight tolerances, you’ll need to specify your tolerance requirements for your manufacturer. Let alone maintaining secure understandings of solder mask and solder placement, material thickness specifications, or any surface mount components - designating your Read Article
How Integrated PCB Design Software Helps you Manage Documentation and Outputs How Integrated PCB Design Software Helps you Manage Documentation and Outputs If you’re like me, then you’re a hardware fanatic. You’re the type that enjoys creating and watching your ideas come to life before your eyes. The last thing you want to do is sit behind a desk and create change orders, bills of materials, and assembly plans for your new product. What if there was a way to cut down the time required to generate these important documents? With deliverables and documentation requiring standardized formats and Read Article
SMART System for Data Management SMART System for Data Management I have seen it, and perhaps you have too, where excessive design problems and too many re-spins of a PCB design can be attributed to just one thing; improper data management. I worked with a company once that considered half a dozen board spins acceptable just to iron out all the library problems. These kinds of problems can be greatly reduced and even eliminated with careful data management. The SMART system spells out a data management process Read Article
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31:18 Altium Designer Productivity: Jump Start your Altium Designer Projects Creating a new PCB project in Altium Designer can be quite a bit of work, especially if you want all the bells and whistles on it. The same goes for the production of CAM data at the end of the project. In this presentation, Casper dives deep into this matter and explores several strategies for setting up a coherent system of templates, libraries, design rules, output jobs, etc. that will help you jump start new designs and race to production. He Watch Video
1:25:04 PCB Design Best Practices: Routing Techniques in Altium Designer Explore methods for advanced routing in this presentation with expert Mike Creeden of San Diego PCB and David Marrakchi. View the presentation slides: Sign up to pre-register for AltiumLive next year or try Altium Designer today. Watch Video
42:31 Challenges in the Design of Lab-on-PCB Platforms Lab-on-Chip technology aspires to shrink biomedical laboratories in few cm microchips, in a technological revolution step analogous to the introduction of computer technology in the 20 th century. In this presentation Dr. Moschou provides an overview of this technology and its impact on healthcare. She focuses on manufacturing techniques for integrated Lab-on-Chip biomedical diagnostic chips and in particular the Lab-on-PCB technology that has Watch Video
41:17 Parts Stress and Derating: Thermal Analysis & Electrical Stress Derating Integrated in Altium Designer Imagine that you are at a ski site and you sit on a ski lift, which can carry a max of 60kg according to the manufacturer's specification while your weight is 66kg. That is only 10% above the maximum allowed weight. Will you worry? Of course. A good ski lift designer will use a safety factor and will design it several times stronger which can hold, for example, 300Kg taking into account the possible weight of the skiers. In electronics, it is the Watch Video
45:02 Multichannel Design in Altium Designer Do you need eight identical A/D converters on one PCB? Or do you have several similar DDR3 memory banks on your FPGA design? Save time and minimize design risk using "multichannel" design features inside Altium Designer. This session will be a live, hands-on demonstration using Altium Designer, showing concepts and implementation of simple multichannel designs on schematic and PCB levels, then advancing to more complex approaches. We will Watch Video
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