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Manually Creating Component Footprint 4 Steps on How to Create a Component Footprint in Altium Designer When laying out your printed circuit board, it is critical that you know how to create footprint for your design components. Some components are quite common or they come in standardized packages, making footprints easy to find. In some cases, footprint generation may need to be done by yourself, and you’ll need to use information directly from the component’s datasheet. If the footprint is incorrect, the part pins may not align with PCB pads or Read Article
Best Practices for Design Synchronization Best Practices for Design Synchronization Best Practices for Design Synchronization Altium Designer® features a robust library and component management system comprising many different component types. There are methods for creating different components within the program and ensuring that the data synchronization is maintained throughout the creation and management of them, to better streamline the various models of your component library and create a more fluid design flow. This paper Read Article
Rigid-Flex PCB Design Guidelines Rigid-Flex PCB Design Guidelines Download this free ebook to learn about rigid-flex PCB design and manufacturing. These guidelines help ensure your flex PCB is reliable and manufacturable with high yield. Read Article
Aspect Ratios and Their Importance to Multi-Layered PCBs PCB Design: What are Aspect Ratios and Why Are They Important? The aspect ratio of a via in a PCB is an important parameter that determines its reliability, and in some cases, its electrical performance. Read Article
wave soldering To Wave or Not To Wave: Wave Soldering Advantages and Disadvantages When can your design be created to use wave soldering? Learn more about the DFM choices that could force you into wave soldering. Read Article
Rigid Flex PCBs and Your Future: Smart, Effective Designing Rigid Flex PCBs and Your Future: Smart, Effective Designing Oftentimes, in terms of PCB design, we are tasked with fitting a square peg into a round hole. Fitting thousands of various components onto a board no larger than a dollar bill, and maybe even a quarter, we always seem to be limited to the 2D plane of predetermined space within our equipment or device. We’ve all been there: after putting the finishing touches on a PCB design, you take a look at the space requirements of the device only to find Read Article
Save Your Lunch Break: Proper PCB Design Software Reduces Development Time Save Your Lunch Break: Proper PCB Design Software Reduces Development Time I’m normally a well-mannered guy, but when someone messes up my schedule, those manners fly right out of the window. Last week, when my 15-minute lunch break was ruined because of a missed order, I was complaining to my managers and struggling to keep my rage under control. When it comes to managing my time, I have high standards. Choosing the right PCB design software to optimize development time is no exception. At the peak of my freelance Read Article
8-bit vs. 32-bit MCU: Choosing the Right Microcontroller for Your PCB Design 8-bit vs. 32-bit MCU: Choosing the Right Microcontroller for Your PCB Design I have very bad shopping habits when it comes to electronic gadgets. Torn between buying a new laptop or upgrading my tablet to an iPad Pro, I end up purchasing both and getting an endless lectures from my fiancé. Thankfully, I’m more decisive when choosing between 8-bit vs 32-bit microcontroller devices for my hardware design. They’re not too different in terms of cost, and one is more powerful than the other. To make the right choice, however Read Article
The Game Stays the Same: Helping PCB Designers with Their Career Growth The Game Stays the Same: Helping PCB Designers with Their Career Growth Walking around the grade school near my house today, I noticed a father practicing baseball with his young son. Now around here, it’s still rainy and freezing cold, so they were bundled up and wisely under the covered portion of the playground. I didn’t know whether to applaud their dedication, or classify them as a couple of nuts. I decided to go with the dedication angle, and admittedly, it was great to see the dad’s excitement when his boy Read Article
Automating Your BOM System for PCB CAD Library Quality and Compliance Automating Your BOM System for PCB CAD Library Quality and Compliance Some years back I was helping my son organize his finances, and he was explaining to me how he didn’t need to track anything because all of that information was available to him online. The benefits that online banking provides are fantastic for sure, but they don’t quite cover everything. I asked him how he was tracking the checks that he had written which hadn’t cleared yet, and he dismissed me with a wave of his hand. These days, after several Read Article
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