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Electronics Industry Insights for PCB Designers and Engineers Electronics Industry Insights for PCB Designers and Engineers January 27, 2023 ONTRACK BI-WEEKLY The start of 2023 kicked off with CES, and now the industry is full speed ahead on developing hardware for the most advanced technologies of our time. The industry will start to see greater development in energy technologies, renewed push into 5G deployments, more companies operating in space, and AI systems tying it all together. Leading Insights Say Goodbye to 3G The beginning of 2023 marked the official end Read Article
Focus on Embedded Development for PCB Designers Focus on Embedded Development for PCB Designers January 13, 2023 ONTRACK BI-WEEKLY As we look forward to 2023, major players in the industry are looking closer at integrating advanced technologies like edge computing, 5G, and AI into product ecosystems. As devices get smarter, embedded developers need to work closer with PCB layout engineers to ensure designs are solvable while also being functional. Here are some of the newest developments in the embedded space. Leading Insights What’s Next Read Article
What Are Netlists in PCB Design Projects? What Are Netlists in PCB Design Projects? Your CAD system should not force you to manually work with netlists. Instead, learn about netlists and how advanced CAD systems automate their usage in PCB design, layout, and testing. Read Article
How to Design a Coaxial Probe Feed for a Patch Antenna How to Design a Coaxial Probe Feed for a Patch Antenna Coaxial probe feeds can be used to connect to your patch antenna. See how this works in this design example. Read Article
Picotest’s Water Cooled Probe Picotest’s Water Cooled Probe Having Steve Sandler in this episode is such a treat! He talks about his presentations at the upcoming DesignCon 2023 in Santa Clara. He gives us a deep dive into some very complex engineering topics, including measuring of the PDN Flatness and the state space model. Read Article
nRF52 PCB layout Getting Started With nRF52 MCU in a PCB See how to get started with the nRF52 in a PCB layout. We’ll show how to use the fine-pitch BGA package version of this component. Read Article
Accessible Education for PCB Designers Accessible Education for PCB Designers In this episode, we are fortunate to have two passionate educators in the industry, Mike Buetow and Mike Creeden. We will talk about the PCEA’s efforts to use all possible platforms to promote educational programs for design engineers. Read Article
FPGAs Are Moving Beyond Prototyping FPGAs Are Moving Beyond Prototyping Our guest Mark Oliver gives us a very insightful use of FPGA as an efficient custom silicon solution and will go deep on the importance of RISC-V for processor designs. Read Article
How Embedded Design Teams Can Simplify I/O and Routing How Embedded Design Teams Can Simplify I/O and Routing Each member of an electronics product design team can take concrete steps to simplify I/O selection and routing in embedded systems design. Read Article
How Altium 365 Can Help You With the PCB Assembly Process How Altium 365 Can Help You With the PCB Assembly (PCBA) Process Engineers no longer need to flip through paper printouts or navigate CAD software while working on board assembly. Read Article
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