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Creating High Pin Count Schematic Symbols Quickly
Making schematic symbols is quick and painless when you use regular expressions and leverage Altium Designer’s expansive toolkit.
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Frequency Modulation Simulation in Altium Designer
When working with analog signals, you need to ensure your device is operating linearly in order to prevent problems like harmonic distortion during operation. Nonlinear interactions in analog devices lead to distortion that corrupts a clean analog signal. It may not be obvious when an analog circuit clips just from looking at your schematic or datasheets. Instead of tracing through your signal chain manually, you can use simulation tools to get
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Reduce Development Time for Electronics with Modular Design Tools
If you want to get to market quickly, you’ll need to reduce development time for your new product If you’re an entrepreneur and you have a great idea for a new product, it’s in your best interests to get through the development phase and bring your product to market quickly. The challenge is to quickly create a new system that provides the functionality your target market demands without sacrificing quality. With software development, it’s quite
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Long Live EDA: Modular System-level Circuit Engineering Online
Modular instruments like this are much easier with online electronics design software If you’re familiar with the electronics design automation (EDA) industry, you’ll find plenty of similarities. These important software platforms have been the mainstay of electronics development since the 1980’s. Although there is plenty of differentiation between different products, as well as various levels of integration, these platforms have always seemed
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Getting Started in Altium Designer: The Schematic
A schematic is a way to record an idea. Schematics are drawings or diagrams that are used to communicate electronic ideas to others. You may have never thought about it, but anyone who understands electronics can look at your schematic and understand your idea, no matter what language they speak! Schematics are a universal “language” for recording and sharing electronic ideas. Here’s the official definition from IPC-T-50 (Terms and Definitions)
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Unique Flex Termination Methods
I think it is important to know that basically any connector you would select for rigid printed circuit boards can also be assembled to a flexible circuit. Traditional thru-hole and SMT connectors, high density circular connectors, D-subminiature connectors, pin and socket connectors, leaded and unleaded, are all options to consider with flexible materials . That said, I am going to veer slightly off topic with the caution to NOT forget to review
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Embedded Optical Interconnects in PCBs for Ultra High Speed Design
Most PCB designers—except those that work on optical transceivers—are probably not aware of the coming revolution in silicon photonic integrated circuits (PICs), electronic-photonic integrated circuits (EPICs), and greater proliferation of embedded optical systems outside of telecom. Applications outside of telecom (for example, military and aerospace systems) that require massive data transfer rates already make use of fiber optics for embedded
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Ethernet Layout Routing Guidelines and Standards: MAC, PHY, and RJ-45 Connectors
Magnetics termination has little to do with actual magnets. Here are some important ethernet layout routing guidelines to ensure signal integrity.
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PCIe Layout and Routing Guidelines
Opening up a computer as a kid and staring at the complicated mess of card slots, chips, and other electronics on a motherboard always made me wonder how anyone could keep all the details about PCB layout straight. Learning more about PCB design for computer architecture and peripherals made me appreciate the dedication PCB designers have for building great electronic devices. Modern GPU, USB, audio, and networking cards can all run on the back
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Identify Vendor Parts Early: Manage BoMs Proactively With Consolidated Part Sourcing
Walking a tightrope requires intricate balance. Simply visualized as a walker and a rope in space. Simple moves into complexity when the walker’s senses are skewed to balance. Careful placement of each foot pulls from neurological pathways communicating intricate information simultaneously. Should information fail to arrive when the foot is moving may push the walker off the rope. Managing Bills of Material from early circuit concept through
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Altium Vault Streamlines Product Development Process With Early Access to Component Sourcing and Costing Instead of Placeholders
The product development process for printed circuit assemblies is highly dependent on complete Bills of Material. Complete Bills of Material list the PCB along with all components soldered or adhered onto the board to make the assembly. Components are unavailable early in the product development cycle because EDA libraries are antiquated and lack current parts information when circuit designers are drawing schematics. To stay on the development’s
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All About Grounding in Electronics Design and PCB Layout
The concepts of grounding techniques, earthing, making PCB ground connections, and PCB chassis ground are all very convoluted in electronics, despite international standards that have tried to separate concepts and terminology. Grounding is important in every aspect of electronics design, electrical work, and of course, in PCB design. All circuits will need a reference connection, which is something that we call ground, but the exact reference is
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An Introduction to Multi-board Design in Altium Designer
Brain games are a good way to stay sharp. One of my favorite ways to implement this is by doing daily puzzles. Although I love the crossword puzzles where you complete the words from a given clue, I think puzzles that require you to put the pieces together can be the most challenging, especially when it is a group activity. It reminds me of one of the more daunting problems for engineers and PCB designers, which is multi-board design. Not only
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Multi-Directional Communication for Easy Mechanical and Electrical Collaboration
My neighbor and I were sitting on the patio one summer dreaming up a Christmas display that would span both our yards. Engineers, right? Ambitious project, for sure, but we had fun visualizing Santa and his reindeer flying across our two roofs. We’d use LED light strings to span the rooflines and we’d incorporate controllers to synchronize Christmas music. Several months later after summer had turned to Fall, in comes the neighbor with a CAD
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Leave Translation Magic in the Hands of Altium Import Wizard
Having a wizard do your bidding is great when convoluted tasks need some hocus pocus. Removing tortuous steps to get a solution is the goal. A wizard moves pesky tasks to forgotten trials by doing the heavy lifting. Need your PCB files translated? Call the wizard. PCB design toolsets would benefit from well-placed wizards able to perform intricate tasks like file translation. File translation is needed when importing document containers
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How to Design a Printed Circuit Board in 10 Easy Steps
Learn how to design a printed circuit board (PCB) and the standard workflow used in the industry. We'll cover schematic capture, PCB layout, and generating printed circuit board design outputs in Altium Designer. Read on to learn the universal PCB design steps.
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PCB Creator's Digital Library Management for Circuit Boards: More Than a Few Shelves
When you hear the word “components”, it’s natural to think about ICs, LEDs, resistors, and all the other electronic hardware that goes into building a PCB. But in terms of PCB design software, there is a lot of information that goes into any component. Every component has an associated symbol, footprint, pin arrangement, and other properties that are used by your PCB design software. With so many components available on the market and with
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