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Look No Further than Altium Designer for the Best PCB Design Software
When it’s time to buy new PCB design software, you only want to buy the best of the best, and you’ll probably look through a PCB design software list to find the tools you need. Open source software carries zero price tag, but it simply isn’t capable of tasks professionals need to perform every day. If you’re considering a new PCB design software package, consider this first. You need all the tools the industry demands, and there is no reason to
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MIMO Antenna Design and PCB Layout Tips
Advanced products operating in the RF domain are increasingly using MIMO antenna arrays to provide high data throughput and serve multiple end users.
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Temperature Sensor Project: Digital Temperature Sensor ICs
The final article in this series looks at digital temperature sensors pitting all the sensors we’ve tested against each other in a head to head contest over a wide range of environmental conditions to allow for a comparison of their functionality, accuracy, and behavior.
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EMI Filter for Simulating Noise Suppression with Altium Designer 20 and Altium 365
Simulations can get very complicated, but Altium 365 helps you keep your simulation models and data organized.
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Transmission Line Transfer Function from ABCD and S-parameters
High frequency and data rate channels can be routed as a mode-selective transmission line. Here’s when you should consider this routing technique.
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Keep Your Eagle Software Files When You Migrate to Altium
When your free design software and other programs like designing circuit boards with Eagle Software don’t include critical design features, you’re stuck finding a workaround with another design tool. The real price of budget design software is lost time, lost productivity, and headaches that arise from inconsistent workflows and compatibility problems. When it’s time to get serious about PCB design, it’s time to look at Altium Designer. Below we
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The Basics of Signal Integrity Analysis in Your PCB
Read and learn the important steps in signal integrity analysis and how these steps reveal problems in your PCB layout.
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An Introduction to Wheatstone Bridge Circuits and Differential Amplifiers
A Wheatstone bridge circuit is a simple device for accurately measuring resistance. In this project, Mark Harris shows how to work with these circuits.
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Selecting and Tracking a General-Purpose Op-Amp
Learn the most critical parameters that should be considered when you're selecting a general-purpose Op-Amp.
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USB PD: Power Delivery for Your Next Project
Since its introduction in the late 90s, the USB standard has never ceased to grow in popularity. Multiple revisions of the standard have kept it relevant to the growing demands of data delivery, which has made it the ubiquitous choice for electronic devices. There has been a growing trend toward USB being a power delivery interface with data, rather than a data interface that can supply power, as the 1.0 specification originally intended. To
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Utilize BOM Management Software to Keep your PCB Design Right
With Active BOM you can eliminate any guesswork out of your component browser and help you to start your PCB design right. ALTIUM DESIGNER A PCB design tool to keep your PCB moving forward through all stages of production. Are you tired of waiting for other people to give you feedback on your components before you can start your work? Are you tired of budget-busting eleventh hour changes on your design due to incorrect or out-of-date component
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The Best PCB Antenna Design Software Eases Antenna Implementation
Circuit Board antenna design can be a difficult task for any software; however, that shouldn’t be a problem for Altium Designer, which can serve as your go-to BLE antenna design software and much more. ALTIUM DESIGNER Ensuring that your antenna designs are placed without issue Consumer and industrial demand have prompted the demand for smaller wireless devices. The devices support wearable technologies, Bluetooth Low Energy (BLE) applications
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PCBs vs. Multichip Modules, Chiplets, and Silicon Interconnect Fabric (2023 Update)
An article in the September 2019 issue of IEEE Spectrum claimed that silicon interconnect fabric, a method for connecting chiplets on a multichip module or advanced package, would eliminate PCBs and bulky SoCs for many applications, specifically motherboards. It's now 2023, and no one seems to have ditched PCBs yet; the demand for PCBs remains as strong as ever and is still projected to grow at double-digit CAGR. This is despite the expected
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Filter Transfer Function and Pole-Zero Analysis in Altium Designer
I remember spending hours on circuit analysis problems in my electronics classes, and I learned to analyze all sorts of filter/amplifier configurations by hand. The circuits were usually tractable with Ohm’s law and Kirchoff’s laws, as long as there was no feedback in the circuit. Circuits for advanced applications, such as wideband or multiband matching circuits for RF components, can quickly become difficult to analyze by hand. But as the
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Understanding Your PCB Netlist File
Understanding Your PCB Netlist File There are several different ways that PCB netlists are used at various stages of the electronics development process. Netlists may have different purposes and may have unique data formats, but they all provide a similar function; they list the connections of an electronic circuit. This is important for a variety of fundamental tasks in electronics and PCB layout design. Your PCB netlist file is used graphically
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PCB Simulation: How to Simulate a PCB Design
Looking for the best PCB simulator? Get started with an electrical circuit design simulation software and learn how to simulate a PCB design. Make sure you use the best PCB simulation software in Altium Designer's unified environment.
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Use Altium Designer’s IPC® Compliant Footprint Wizard to Make Unified PCB Library Footprints
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Compliant Footprint Wizard facilitates accurate PCB footprint generation for each component in Altium Designer. The footprint generation feature in Altium Designer overcomes some of the biggest productivity bottlenecks in other CAD systems, such as OrCAD/Allegro and PADS. Instead of manually creating every footprint from scratch, use the footprint generation tool in Altium Designer and our suite of automated library
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