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PCB Design Career and Team Tips Presentation PCB Design Career and Team Tips Presentation Become an expert PCB Designer when you use Altium Designer software. Benefits to the Unified Data Model Approach include not just time savings, but the potential of the Unified Data Model Approach is limitless. Consider the big picture and the very details that impact your projects' success. Click the PDF above to read more about PCB Design Career & Team in this presentation overview. Or view the original content here: ​How to Become a PCB Read Article
Model Copper Roughness Properly, a Discussion with Bert Simonovich Model Copper Roughness Properly, a Discussion with Bert Simonovich Discover how to model copper roughness properly with insights from industry expert, Bert Simonovich. Nail down your design to achieve consistent result. Listen to this podcast episode to learn more. Read Article
Keep Your Altium Designer PCB Layout in Line with Grids and Grid-Selection Shortcuts Keep Your Altium Designer PCB Layout in Line with Grids and Grid-Selection Shortcuts The grid system in a printed circuit board design CAD program is a great tool for a PCB designer, and it's a system worth knowing. Altium Designer® has a well designed grid system that you can use to your advantage in your PCB designs and schematic captures. Before all the different snap and placement utilities that are now available in CAD systems, we used to have to constantly manipulate the grid to place objects at different locations. It Read Article
Generate Gerber Files in Altium Designer Step-by-Step from Schematic to PCB How to Make PCB Gerber Files in Altium Designer Step-by-Step Looking for the best approach for CAM jobs? Learn how to make PCB Gerber files in Altium Designer from your circuit board layout. Altium's CAM tools can help you quickly create PCB Gerber files. Read Article
GPS Antennas in Your PCB Design: You Won’t Get Lost Again GPS Antennas in Your PCB Design: You Won’t Get Lost Again Going on hunting trips with my grandpa as a kid, we would carry a rather large GPS-navigator to help us keep from getting lost in the woods. It had a huge antenna sticking out the top and its battery never lasted longer than a few hours. Fast forward 20 years, and including GPS capabilities in your PCB design has become easier than ever. Many new consumer devices include GPS PCB antenna modules in their design. If you don’t have GPS or RF-design Read Article
Dual-Band PCB Antenna Design: Keeping Your EMI In-Line Dual-Band PCB Antenna Design: Keeping Your EMI In-Line If you were born in the 1980’s or earlier, you probably remember those old brick-like cell phones and their giant antennas. Fast forward to the present, and most people don’t even realize that their smartphones have antennas. Proposed antenna designs have come a long way since the 80’s, and new antennas can send and receive in more than one frequency band. As the mobile and IoT industry continues to advance, electronic devices continue to use Read Article
Preventing Ground Loops in Your PCB Design Preventing Ground Loops in Your PCB Design I think we’ve all been there. You buy that awesome stereo system only to hear that familiar humming sound in the background. When you take it back to the store the clerk blames the manufacturer. What components are to be considered a problem? The decoupling capacitor or ground wire? How about the bypass capacitor or PCB ground loop design interference? The stereo manufacturer will blame the component manufacturer and the component manufacturer Read Article
Understanding Ground Planes in Your Two-Layer PCB Understanding 2-Layer PCB Ground Planes Like many designers, my first board was a 2-layer board, and it didn't use a PCB ground plane. It wasn't very elaborate, just an amplifier with some connectors and a connection to a DAQ module that interfaced with a LabVIEW app. When you're designing with through-hole components on a copper-clad perfboard, there's no way to create a solid ground region anywhere on the board, and your grounding strategy will suffer for it. If you watch the Read Article
Cave Markings and Circuit Boards: How to Read PCB Layout Assembly Drawings How to Read PCB Assembly Drawings Here is a complete list of information PCB designers can get from a PCB assembly drawing. This information helps with design re-spins or rework, as well as mechanical design. Read Article
3D Printing and PCB Design: Good Things Come in Three Introduction of 3D Technology in PCBs: 3D Printing and PCB Design Early experimental jets from the design table to wind tunnel tests of models to actual piloted flight at a rapid rate. During the 1950s, aircraft designers relied on slide rules and blackboard mathematics rather than computer processing and virtual simulations. When a test pilot climbed into a cockpit, he climbed into an untested prototype. Some flights went very well and set speed and altitude records, while other flights… didn’t. As with Read Article
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