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Medical Technology Innovations and the Electronics That Enable Them Medical Technology Innovations and the Electronics That Enable Them Ten years ago, who would have thought one of the world’s largest medical equipment manufacturers, General Electric, would look to exit the industry and sell-off its medical equipment business? It is also a fact of life that changes like these tend to drive companies to look for profit opportunities in other industries. In the 21st century, with a rapidly aging global population, you have the likes of aerospace giants, such as Lockheed-Martin and Read Article
Embedded Passives Technology (resistors and capacitors) with Bruce Mahler from Ohmega Technologies Embedded Passives Technology (resistors and capacitors) with Bruce Mahler from Ohmega Technologies Learn about Embedded Passives Technology, ER - Embedded resistors, EC - embedded capacitor with Bruce Mahler from Ohmega Technologies in this OnTrack Podcast episode, the PCB design Podcast by Altium. Read Article
WARR Hyperloop Pushes Last Year’s Design Concept Even Further Elon Musk's WARR Hyperloop SpaceX Team Pushes Last Year’s Design Concept Even Further WARR Hyperloop team with Elon Musk after their 2017 win of the Hyperloop Pod competition II. Judy Warner: Please share briefly about the history of the WARR Hyperloop and the Technical University of Munich. Martin Riedel: WARR Hyperloop started out as a group of six students in the fall of 2015 and has since grown to nearly 40 students that compete in the SpaceX Hyperloop Competition every year. WARR Hyperloop is part of a larger student Read Article
Bill Brooks Accelerates Design-based Over Tool-based Curriculum Bill Brooks Accelerates Design-based Over Tool-based Curriculum Judy Warner: How long have you been designing PCBs and what led you to the profession? Bill Brooks: I’ve been designing boards since about 1970. My father introduced me to electronics. He was an aerospace professional working in R&D at Hughes Aircraft Company, UCSD, and later at Aerospace Incorporated. He decided to open up a printed circuit shop out of our garage in Vista, CA while I was still in junior high school. In 1969 he taught my brothers Read Article
Identifying Minimum PCB Trace Spacing and Width in Altium Designer Identifying Minimum Trace Spacing and Track Width in PCBs Taking the time to set up routing rules to govern a PCB's minimum trace spacing and width for your layout can be tedious. Many designers would prefer to jump in and start trace routing without going through this setup process first. This can be dangerous, though, as you may inadvertently route a trace routing at the wrong width or pack your routing in so tightly that you don't have the room to make any width corrections later on. The more rigid Read Article
Developing 3D Printed Electronics to Minimize PCB Design and Manufacturing Costs Developing 3D Printed Electronics to Minimize PCB Design and Manufacturing Costs After moving to a new city, I couldn’t resist visiting the local library to pick up my library card and explore educational resources. As I walked in, the librarian cheerfully handed me a pamphlet on using a 3D printer. I was thrilled to see how easy it is becoming to access a 3D printer. Once restricted to research universities and high-budget labs, 3D printing is now ubiquitous. 3D printed electronics are also starting to become more reliable Read Article
Use Interactive Routing to Mitigate EMI Issues from High-Speed PCB Traces Use Interactive Routing to Mitigate EMI Issues from High-Speed PCB Traces Having a robot clean the house and perform laundry chores continues to elude modern technology given intricate steps to complete each chore. Given the repetitive nature of the chores, you’d think robotic automation would be the perfect application to turn over to a robot. It turns out that cleaning the house and doing the laundry is much more complicated and too advanced for robot understanding. Only simplistic chores, like vacuuming the floor Read Article
Rigid-Flex Command Set-up and Layer Stack Design Rigid-Flex Command Set-up and Layer Stack Design Once you take that nose dive into PCB design, you start to realize how many of your home electronic devices actually work. From DVD drives to laptop monitors, and just about anything that folds, it is all made possible with rigid-flex PCBs. Rigid-flex PCB design can be a tricky beast depending on the software you’re using to create it, but at the end of the design, your printed circuit board will bend and flex like a gymnast. A rigid-flex PCB, at Read Article
The Cost of CAD Software: What Strong Design Tools are Really Worth How Much Does Cad Software Cost and Is It Worth It? We've all been there, we buy bargain products to save money only oftentimes for disappointment. This might happen when that knock-off shirt doesn't fit you properly or the cost CAD software ends up being far from what you were looking for. Although it takes money to make money holds true at times - the question still stands: How much should I invest in this software in order to achieve my desired result and how much does CAD software cost? The Read Article
PCB Routing Options to Maximize Design Adaptability PCB Routing Options to Maximize Design Adaptability Amusement parks often feature small raceways with gasoline-powered, two-passenger mini-cars going around a multi-lane track. Drivers can experience the thrill of steering and accelerating while trying to beat friends or family to the finish line. There’s a catch though. A rail-like barrier positioned in the middle of each lane prevents cars from moving from one lane to another. Consider the amusement park like a circuit: designing the amusement Read Article
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