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PCB Manufacturing Then and Now A Lookback to the Evolution of the PCB Industry with Happy Holden Happy Holden, a legend in the PCB Industry and one of our favorite Altium Industry Expert contributors gives us a trip to his 53 years of experience in the industry. Read Article
Impedance Management Through PCB Stackup Design With Reference Planes Impedance Management Through PCB Stackup Design With Reference Planes Learn design strategies for using controlling impedance and controlled dielectric in your PCB for accurate manufacturing. Read Article
Trace Resistance vs Trace Impedance When Trace Resistance Trumps Trace Impedance Trace resistance, trace impedance, plane resistance, and plane impedace: when do you need to worry about all of these quantities? Resistance and impedance both are important in small traces and fat rails on a PCB, both internally and externally. Sometimes a new designer entering the world of impedance controlled buses might think they have a trace resistance target, when really they have a trace impedance target. While in power electronics, we Read Article
Inverted-F Antenna Inverted-F Antenna Design For a PCB Learn how to design an inverted-F antenna for an RF PCB layout. Read Article
Pole-Zero Analysis and Transient Analysis in Circuit Design Pole-Zero Analysis and Transient Analysis in Circuit Design Here’s how pole-zero analysis as part of transient analysis can help you identify underdamped responses, zero-output frequencies, and much more. Read Article
Power Testing PCB Automated PCB Testing With FixtureFab In this episode, Zach is talking with the co-founders of FixturFab, Duncan Lowder and Joe Selvik about power testing the PCB using automated test fixtures and turnkey systems. Read Article
How to Use SFP Connectors in Your PCB Layout How to Use SFP Connectors in Your PCB Layout SFP connectors are used to route data into fiber optic transceiver modules, which are normally found in high-speed networking equipment. Today, however, I’ve had multiple design requests that involve the use of fiber transceivers outside of a data center environment. Newer systems in sensor fusion, MIMO systems, rugged OpenVPX switches, and some industrial robotics need to stream huge amounts of data back to a workstation or server, with data Read Article
How To Learn PCB Design How To Learn PCB Design This handy compilation of PCB design learning resources will keep your PCB design skills on top of the game. Read Article
CP2102 USB to UART Module CP2102 USB to UART Module PCB Design Project See how to use the CP2102 in a new project for a USB to serial converter module. You can use the same steps to place this on a larger PCB. Read Article
Electronics Industry Insights for PCB Designers and Engineers Electronics Industry Insights for PCB Designers and Engineers February 10, 2023 ONTRACK BI-WEEKLY As the electronic industry conference season rolls on, companies are grappling with a shifting supply chain landscape and disruptive technologies in AI, energy, and wireless. Leading Insights Apple Takes Greater Control of its Supply Chain Apple will be the first to revolutionize its supply chain by incorporating more of their in-house built chipsets into new products. Will other tech companies follow suit Read Article
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