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How to Design a Printed Circuit Board How to Design a Printed Circuit Board in 10 Easy Steps Learn how to design a printed circuit board (PCB) and the standard workflow used in the industry. We'll cover schematic capture, PCB layout, and generating printed circuit board design outputs in Altium Designer. Read on to learn the universal PCB design steps. Read Article
BONUS episode: All About Design007 Resources All About PCBs: Design007 Magazine Resources Looking for PCB Design resources? Learn all about the PCB Design Magazine designers love, Design007, from iConnect007 in today's OnTrack Podcast episode with Andy Shaughnessy. Watch or listen now. Read Article
Let Them Build Robots! All About AltiumLive Let Them Build Robots! All About AltiumLive Learn all about AltiumLive: PCB DESIGN SUMMIT, the premier tech conference for PCB designers, brought to you by Altium. Watch or Listen to this OnTrack special episode today! Read Article
Determining Impedance with a Microstrip Line Calculator Determining Impedance with a Microstrip Line Calculator Whether you’re new to PCB design or you’ve made your career out of it, there are many times in RF and high speed design where you need to design microstrip and stripline traces to have a specific impedance. This is done by adjusting the width of the line until the desired impedance value is reached. It's important to understand where impedance calculators are applicable as different calculators include specific assumptions on dielectric Read Article
Transmission Line Calculators in PCB Design Transmission Line Delay Calculators in PCB Design Transmission lines are one of those deceptively complex things that make modern life possible. What seems like a simple metal cable is, in fact, a precisely engineered system. Traces on PCBs are no different, and they are like the blood vessels that power your electronic devices. So what is a transmission line anyway? This term was initially adopted to create the analogy between traces on a PCB and civilian power lines. The term “transmission Read Article
DDR3 Memory Interfaces and Topologies in PCB Design DDR3 Memory Interfaces and Topologies in PCB Design In the World Memory Championships, individuals compete in memory sports by memorizing as much information as possible within a specific timeframe. The championships include ten different disciplines that cover numbers, binary digits, playing cards, random lists of words, names and faces, historic dates, abstract images, and speed cards. No one has tested the World Memory Champion against DDR3 memory and no one really knows how the World Memory Read Article
Copper Wrap Plating in Your PCB Copper Wrap Plating in Your PCB No one wants to purchase a new electronic device, only to have it fail a week later. I’ve had the same flat screen monitor for over five years, and it is probably the toughest electronic device I’ve ever owned. If you love reliable designs, then you probably pay attention to industry standards designed to improve device lifetime. Via plating in a PCB should be reliable enough that it can withstand shock and thermal cycling. This is where plating Read Article
Bil Herd on Changing CAD Tools and Making Your Own Part Libraries . Watch Video
Injection Molded Structural Electronics and Designing in a 3D Space Injection Molded Structural Electronics and Designing in a 3D Space Injection Molded Structural Electronics means integrating electronics inside 3D electronics to create smart surfaces. This and more in today's episode with Sini Rytky and Tuomas Heikkilä from TactoTek. Read Article
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