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Connectors Benefit from Compatible ECAD/MCAD Tools

Modeling and Placing PCB Connectors Within Altium Designer ALTIUM DESIGNER The most powerful, modern, and easy-to-use PCB design tool for professional use. I/O use connectors for PCB system integration In this guide to PCB connectors, we’ll take a look at connectors within electrical systems, how they benefit from ECAD/MCAD tools, and optimal design specifics like appropriate cable connectors or gold fingers gold plating. Connectors abound on printed circuit assemblies given integrated electrical Read Article

Model Train Circuits in the Best Electronics Design Software

Model Train Circuits in the Best Electronic Model Railroad Design Software Model train circuits include multiple elements that hobbyists might find in other common electronics. LEDs, buzzers, alarms, motors, and much more can be found in model train circuits. Designing train circuit boards takes a great schematic editor and component library with real and generic components for use in a circuit board. Use the best circuit board design software to create your model train circuits and start your PCB layout in a single Read Article

Huge Vu-meter with RGB LEDs Project

Huge VU-meter with RGB LEDs Project A laboratory journal to guide you through the steps to develop a successful product that value-conscious customers are sure to love. Read Article

LLC Resonant Converter Design

LLC Resonant Converter Design and PCB Layout You can use an LLC resonant converter design to provide stable DC power in your circuits. Here’s how to layout your LLC converter design. Read Article

Circuit CAD Software for PCB Design

Circuit CAD Software for PCB Design Altium Designer is the complete circuit CAD software for PCB design. Altium Designer unifies capabilities from CAD PCB design software to help you complete challenging designs. Read Article

Comparison of PCB Material Properties for High Speed Design and HDI Boards

Comparison of PCB Material Properties for High Speed Design and HDI Boards Looking for a PCB material comparison chart? Take a look at our comparison of PCB material properties for your next high speed or HDI PCB. Read Article

How to Build a Circuit Board With Altium’s PCB Design Software

How Are Circuit Boards Made With Altium Designer Your printed circuit board (PCB) design might be designed to work correctly, but you also need to make sure it can actually be manufactured. Although a PCB manufacturer will fabricate and assemble your circuit boards for you, making sure your designs are manufacturable is about encoding DFM specifications in your design rules. With the rule-driven design features of Altium Designer, you can encode DFM specs into your PCB’s design rules; this Read Article

1:44 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 Watch Video

MIMO Antenna Design

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. Read Article

Temperature Sensor Project: Digital Temperature Sensor ICs

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. Read Article

EMI filter simulation for power supplies

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. Read Article

transmission line transfer function ABCD parameters S parameters

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. Read Article

The Basics of Signal Integrity Analysis in Your PCB

The Basics of Signal Integrity Analysis and Simulation in PCB Design Read and learn the important steps in signal integrity analysis and how these steps reveal problems in your PCB layout. Read Article

An Introduction to Wheatstone Bridges

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. Read Article

Selecting and Tracking a General-Purpose Op-Amp

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. Read Article

USB Power Delivery for Your Next Project

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 Read Article

Utilize BOM Management to Keep your PCB Design Right

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 Read Article