OnTrack

OnTrack with Zachariah Peterson discusses PCB design, manufacturing, and everything in between. Judy interviews inventors and experts in printed circuit board design, fabrication and assembly to learn what's next for electronics, hardware, and system design. OnTrack also publishes a monthly newsletter available here.

Better Thermal and Power Efficiency for Your PCB

Better Thermal and Power Efficiency for Your PCB Our guest Steven Schnier, Systems Engineer for Power Management at Texas Instruments generously shares the different strategies for designing better thermal and power efficient PCB. Read Article

Henry Crandall

Making Smart Wearable Devices Smarter Making wearable smart devices smarter, is one of the heavily invested research in the tech industry today. Henry Crendall talks more about it in this episode. Read Article

Reverse Engineering: Is it Worth it?

Reverse Engineering: Is it Worth it? Pierce Design’s Ethan Pierce will share his insight into reverse engineering with PCEA. We will also discuss firmware reverse engineering. Read Article

PCB Manufacturing

PCB Manufacturing: Then and Now In this episode, we have the pleasure of having Gene Weiner, a true gem in the industry! This is a rare opportunity to learn from an expert who has helped shape the electronics industry for more than 60 years now. Read Article

System Level Qualification in Simulation

System Level Qualification in Simulation Keysight's Tim Wang Lee will share his early days as a prodigy with Dr. Eric Bogatin. We will also discuss the importance of simulation and measurement to achieve signal integrity for your PCB design. Read Article

Promoting the Electronics Industry to Younger Generation

Promoting the Electronics Industry to the Next Generation Charlene Gunther, the Senior Director of the IPC Education Foundation talks about IPC’s efforts to involve students in engaging activities that will introduce the electronic industry to them as early as high school. Read Article

Security on CAN bus with Ken Tindell

Security on CAN bus with Ken Tindell A lot of interesting facts about cyber security and automobile hacking that you would not want to miss! Watch through the end and make sure to check the additional resources below. Read Article

Achieving Diversified Electronics Supply Chain

Achieving Diversified Electronics Supply Chain In this episode, we continue the discussion on diversifying the electronic supply chain. Our guest Case Engelen the CEO of Titoma shares his insight about moving some of the manufacturing to other Southeast Asian countries and South America. Read Article

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

Power Testing PCB

Power Testing PCB 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

The Exciting Path to Mechatronics Engineering

The Exciting Path to Mechatronics Engineering Fergus Downey, Ph.D. student and research assistant at Curtin University in Western Australia (WA), is joining us in this episode and sharing his journey to becoming a Mechatronic Engineer. This will be a fun episode! Fergus will discuss his involvement with the Binar Space Program and give us an overview of CubeSat Read Article

3D Printing Circuit Boards for Fast Prototyping

3D Printed Circuit Boards for Fast Prototyping Sean Patterson joins us to share the technology behind DragonFly IV®, the multi-material 3D printer for electronics fabrication. He will walk us through its current capabilities, and how it can bring your electronic prototypes to the next level. Watch this episode or listen on the go. Read Article

Mastering Your PCB Design Tool as the Industry Evolves

Mastering Your PCB Design Tool as the Industry Evolves with Stephen Chavez This is a not-to-be-missed episode with a very respected electrical engineer, Stephen Chavez! Stephen encourages and motivates PCB designers like you to keep learning and succeed in the electronics industry. Read Article

Troubleshooting EMC Immunity Issues

Troubleshooting EMC Immunity: How to Identify and Resolve EMC Problems Most PCB Designers wear many hats, and one of them is to solve EMC problems. How can you acquire this skill that is not offered in the university? Watch now or listen on the go! Read Article

Taking Simulation to a New Dimension

Taking Simulation to a New Dimension Tarun and Keshav Amla from Avishtech join us in this OnTrack episode to discuss about PCB stackup simulation. Read Article

Four Commonly Held Myths of EMC Design

Four Commonly Held Myths of EMC Design “Don't gap your ground plane, there's never really a good reason to do that.” Dr. Hubing our guest for today is an EMC expert with 30 years of experience in the industry. Watch this episode or listen on the go now. Read Article

Solder Formula for High Quality and Reliability PCB

Solder Formula for High Quality and Reliability PCB Listen or watch through the end. This is a great opportunity for PCB designers to learn about soldering products that are used for printed circuit board assembly. Read Article