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Designing for Medical IoT Applications: Challenges and Considerations IoT Medical Product and Application Design: Challenges and Considerations Ideally, any technology is going to drastically affect people and the ability of people to accomplish whatever tasks they need. Yet, when new technology is entering the medical domain, the stakes are always a bit higher: one has to be cognizant that any faults, errors, or malfunctions are going to immediately affect someone’s health. Granted, not every medical device is going to be life-or-death, but they should still be considered carefully Read Article
Constraint Driven Design versus Rules Driven Design in a Unified Environment Constraint Driven Design versus Rules Driven Design in a Unified Environment One of the most important productivity tools for PCB designers is a robust design rules checking (DRC) system or a constraints checking system. DRCs and constraints help ensure a PCB layout can comply with DFM requirements, signal integrity requirements, and custom place and route requirements that are specific to your product. Different programs display design rule definitions in different ways, design rules are defined in different interfaces Read Article
how to convert schematic to pcb layout in altium How to Create a PCB Layout from a Schematic in Altium Designer You’ve done your usual excellent job of putting together the PCB schematic. The circuitry is defined and you are ready to go to PCB layout. But this time it’s a little different. Maybe your regular layout resources aren’t available, or perhaps you want to try to do your first layout yourself. Whatever the reason, you are ready to start working on the board side of PCB design, but you’re not sure how to create it from a PCB schematic in Altium Read Article
Creating a Bill of Material with PCB Design Software using Altium Designer PCB Design Software: Creating a Bill of Material using Altium Designer You’ve done it, your printed circuit board is finished and ready for PCB assembly. The schematic is finalized, the layout is checked and approved and you are ready to get this thing built. To do that though, you need to create a bill of materials. Fortunately, we are long past the days where these documents were created by hand. Every CAD system out there will automatically create a bill of materials through some library or other process. But Read Article
What's New In Altium Designer 18 Webinar Recap June 19 What's New In Altium Designer 18 Webinar Recap June 19 Altium Designer® Webinar: June 19th In case you missed our Altium 18 live webinar, no worries. You can catch up here with the video recording and presentation slides. If you’re not a fan of videos I’ll try my best to summarize in the webinar notes bellow. Most of the key takeaways will be the same as the may webinar but do take a look at the questions as they’ll be different. For future webinars if there’s something you’d like to see add it to Read Article
DDR4 routing guidelines PCB Routing Guidelines for DDR4 Memory Devices and Impedance Follow these DDR4 routing and PCB layout guidelines to ensure signal integrity and correct timing for high speed DDR buses. Read Article
The Role of Embedded Capacitors in PCB Design Role of Embedded Capacitors in Circuit Board Design Embedded SMD components like an embedded capacitor provide new levels of density that are beneficial in many systems. However, there are PCB manufacturing challenges. Read Article
Commodore 128 Principal Engineer, Bil Herd on Best Practices for Learning a New CAD Tool Commodore 128 Principal Engineer, Bil Herd on Best Practices for Learning a New CAD Tool Curious about the early days of Early Home Computer Design? Former Commodore 128 Principal Engineer, Bil Herd shares stories from his illustrious career and Best Practices for Learning a New CAD Tool. Read Article
Avoid the First Pass Perils in PCB Prototyping Runs Five First Pass Perils in PCB Prototyping Runs The first pass prototyping run for a new design is where its functionality really gets put to the test. The functionality of your PCB depends on the quality of the design you create in your CAD tools, but sometimes the prototype just doesn't function as intended. There are many possible reasons for this, which could be related to your design choices, the capabilities of your manufacturer, or both. Founders without hardware experience might Read Article
annular ring NFP Annular Rings for PCB and Nonfunctional Pads: Should You Use ‘em or Lose ‘em? Annular rings placed as non-functional pads in a PCB can affect via strength and signal integrity. Learn when to remove or keep them in this article. Read Article
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