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Drones, Robots and Thermal Management: OnTrack Newsletter December 2017 Drones, Robots and Thermal Management: OnTrack Newsletter December 2017 On Track Newsletter December 2017 VOL. 1 No 9 Welcome to the December issue of Altium Designer’s On Track Newsletter. In celebration of our far reaching global community, we are shining the spotlight on an impressive PCB designer from Norway this month. Tor-Anders Lunder designs boards for a startup company called Staaker which makes a tracking drone with a camera mount for sports enthusiasts. In Maker Space, we highlight a group of Brazilian Read Article
IoT Security Vulnerabilities and Buffer Overflow Internet of Things Security Vulnerabilities: It's All About That Buffer Overflow I follow a bunch of animal and nature publications, and recently the phrase ‘zombie ants,’ kept popping up in my feed. I decided to do a little digging and discovered that there’s a type of fungi - Ophiocordyceps - whose life cycle involves infecting ants that walk across its spores with fungal cells that infiltrate the ant’s central nervous system and essentially take over the ant. Once they have the ant "under its control", the fungus-infected Read Article
Interactive Routing Datasheet Interactive Routing Datasheet The PCB editor’s advanced routing engine includes push and shove, hug, walk around, and interactive length tuning modes for single-ended and differential pair routes. ™ enable complex signal-path groupings across the PCB to be tuned for any high-speed technology, with the Wizard to automate the setup of modern topologies including DDR2/3/4, USB 3.0, and more. ® provides user-guided routing automation to route and tune across defined layers Read Article
MCAD Collaboration Datasheet MCAD Collaboration Datasheet To learn more about this topic please see the full solution - MCAD Collaboration - at Altium.com. Read Article
Manufacturing Outputs Datasheet Manufacturing Outputs Documentation and Datasheet Who wants to send their masterfully designed PCB to their fabricator, only to be told that the board is un-manufacturable? This can happen for a number of reasons, including outdated supplier data, incomplete documentation, improper panelization schemes, or a lack of fabrication documentation. Instead of relying on different programs to design your PCB and generate deliverables, you need an integrated software platform that includes all the Read Article
Design Verification Datasheet PCB Design Verification Datasheet FEATURES AND BENEFITS Validate your design with XSpice before you even start laying out the board to expedite layout and prevent errors Identify power distribution network issues during the design phase Running the right simulation ensures your board will meet the design requirements DESIGN VERIFICATION Sometimes you are not sure how a design verification will behave or maybe you just want to explore a few design process ideas before committing Read Article
Data Management Datasheet Data Management Datasheet FEATURES AND BENEFITS Critical ECAD data always consistent and in- sync throughout your BU and design teams to prevent errors Leverage your ECAD data to make sound, intelligent decisions Company-wide access to pre-approved parts, lifecycle states, approved suppliers, designs, and other critical information means all designers are in sync Streamlined process to communicate and collaborate with the different stakeholders in a multi-disciplined Read Article
Component Management Datasheet Component Management Datasheet Your data management workflow should help you keep track of all your components, design data, production data, and much more as needed. A process for data governance and quality assurance starts with the right software that is tailored to the needs of your industry. PCB designers and large electronics companies all need a set of data repository and data management workflow to help them quickly access and share data with each other. When your team Read Article
Azevedo the ITAndroids: Humanoid Robot Soccer Team Azevedo the ITAndroids: Humanoid Robot Soccer Design Team Judy Warner: How long has the ITAndroids team been in existence, and how did it get started? Arthur Azevedo: The ITAndroids team was created in 2005 by Jackson Matsura. Back then he was a masters student, now he is a professor in the electronics department. Two undergraduate students and another master’s student joined the team. They won the Latin America RoboCup (LARC) 2D Soccer Simulation that year. They quickly became one of the Latin American Read Article
Meet PCB Designer Tor-Anders Lunder and the Self-tracking Drone He Helped Develop at Staaker Meet PCB Designer Tor-Anders Lunder and the Self-tracking Drone He Helped Develop at Staaker Judy Warner: Tor-Anders, will you please​ ​share​ ​a​ ​little​ ​bit​ ​about​ ​your​ ​journey​ ​to​ ​becoming​ ​a​ ​PCB​ ​​ ​and​ ​how​ ​you​ ​ended​ ​up at​ ​ Staaker? Tor-Anders Lunder: Sure. After my master’s degree at Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU) in Trondheim I had already been doing some projects involving PCB design and was curious about the whole process from design to assembly, and wanted to learn more in this Read Article
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