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Flex Cost Drivers, Solar Car Drivers and DFM OnTrack Newsletter March 2018

Flex Cost Drivers, Solar Car Drivers and DFM OnTrack Newsletter March 2018 On Track Newsletter March 2018 VOL. 1 No 12 Welcome to the March edition of the Altium^® OnTrack Newsletter. We have some exceptional content for you this month—so read on! In Design Like a Girl, I interview PCB fabrication veteran and flex expert Tara Dunn of OMNI PCB who will share some insight into cost drivers for flex and rigid-flex circuits. In Next Gen Designers, I interview the Sunswift Solar-Electric team from the University of New South Read Article

Introduction to Multiboard PCB Design with Ben Jordan Join Ben Jordan in an Introduction to Multiboard PCB Design. In this episode, Part One of a Multipart Series, you will learn different approaches to Partitioning a PCB and Planning a Multiboard PCB Design Layout. See All OnTrack Newsletters here. Watch Video

RF and Microwave PCB Design with John Bushie from ASC

RF and Microwave PCB Design with John Bushie from ASC This is an episode about RF and Microwave PCB Design as well as Design for Manufacturing or DFM and it will help you to understand material choices and where to get answers about high speed laminates. Read Article

10:05 Getting Started with Design for Manufacturing [DFM] Getting Started with Design for Manufacturing is an Episode of the OnTrack Whiteboard Series. Join David Marrakchi as he gives an Introduction into Design for Manufacturing. How can you save 40% of time per production cycle and lots of money spent on re-spins? Learn some easy tricks that will help you get your design right the first time - every time. View the complete DFM Guidebook by David Marrakchi here. See All OnTrack Newsletters here. Watch Video

Student-Designed Solar Cars from Down Under

Sunswift: Student-Designed Solar Cars from Down Under Judy Warner: Please share how your team was started, how many cars you have built to date, and give us an overview of Violet. Kristian Bojidarov: Sunswift is a team of undergraduate students from the University of New South Wales who design, build and race the world’s most advanced solar-electric vehicles. With the knowledge gained since Sunswift’s founding in 1995, the team has recently completed the manufacture of our sixth vehicle, Violet Read Article

Getting a Handle on Flex Cost Drivers

Getting a Handle on Flex Cost Drivers Judy Warner: You've been in the board fabrication business for over 20 years. What factors do you see as contributing to the rise in flex and rigid-flex designs? Tara Dunn: I believe that space, weight and packaging are the primary factors driving designs to flex and rigid-flex technology. For customers that are already using flex and rigid-flex, I am seeing an increase in their percentage of new designs using flex and I am also noticing an Read Article

5 Noteworthy Women in PCB Design

5 Noteworthy Women in PCB Design Women in technology is a hot topic, especially how to get more women involved in technology-related fields. What I find most interesting about this subject is what motivates people to pursue a career in technology in the first place. In general, there are a lot of men in this field and, as a woman in tech myself, I think attracting new people to the industry is always positive. I encourage people to pursue careers in technology, no matter their Read Article

PCBs from Space to Snow Plowing OnTrack Newsletter February 2018

PCBs from Space to Snow Plowing OnTrack Newsletter February 2018 On Track Newsletter February 2018 VOL. 1 No 11 Welcome to the February edition of the Altium^® On Track Newsletter. There is justifiable concern in our industry about where the next generation of PCB designers will come from. Estimates show that in approximately ten years, 50% of currently working PCB designers will be retiring—which is an alarming statistic! Since joining Altium exactly one year ago, I have seen overwhelming evidence from around Read Article

Flex Cost Drivers and Next Gen Technologists, a conversation with Tara Dunn from OMNI PCB

Flex Cost Drivers and Next Gen Technologists, a conversation with Tara Dunn from OMNI PCB More than ever, people design with Flex and Rigid Flex for the very first time as industries drive for smaller, more user-friendly devices. Join Altium's Judy Warner and OmniPCB CEO, Tara Dunn for a conversation on industry trends and cost drivers. Listen to the Podcast: Download this episode (right click and save) Watch the video: Show Highlights: What is driving growth in the market? Space, weight, packaging. Flex is everywhere especially Read Article

Jeremy Blum at Shaper Tools and the CNC Router Revolutionizing Hardware Design

Jeremy Blum at Shaper Tools and the CNC Router Revolutionizing Hardware Design Jeremy Blum is working at Shaper, reinventing hand held power tools starting with the revolutionary CNC router, Shaper Origin. Join Altium’s Judy Warner and Jeremy for a conversation on making tools for making things. Listen to the Podcast: Download this episode (right click and save) Watch the video: Show Highlights: Shaper is a human in the loop company CNC, or computer numerical control varies in implementation. Large CNCs can be Desktop size Read Article

From Tape-ups to ActiveRoute, a discussion with Charles Pfeil

From Tape-ups to ActiveRoute, a discussion with Charles Pfeil Join Charles Pfeil and Judy and take a look back on the days of manual design, before exploring today’s very different eCAD competitive landscape in the second episode of OnTrack Podcast. Read Article

Multi-board Design, a discussion with Ben Jordan

Multi-board Design, a discussion with Ben Jordan Join Altium’s Judy Warner and Ben Jordan for a conversation on Multiboard PCB design. Listen to the Podcast: Download this episode (right click and save) Watch the video: Show Highlights: Many different product areas are being impacted by developments in Electronics, opening new frontiers - beauty products, wearables Electronics are replacing things that traditionally were not electronics Electronics product development are increasingly driven by Read Article

The PCB Design Podcast with Judy Warner

The PCB Design Podcast with Judy Warner Listen to the new PCB Design Podcast featuring Judy Warner and special guests, brought to you by Altium and the OnTrack Community. Listen to all the episodes here or on your favorite Podcast app. Feel free to comment below if you can't find us on your favorite platform and we'll make sure you can! Listen to all the latest OnTrack episodes below. Latest Episodes: Trade In Your Outdated PCB Design Tool & Unlock 45% OFF Altium today! Click here to Read Article

Left Hand Robotics Autonomous Snowbot

Left Hand Robotics Autonomous Snowbot Judy Warner: Shane, so nice to meet you. Before we get started, I just had to ask what the story is behind your unique name? Shane Zinner: In this area, there was an American Indian Chief Niwot or Left Hand (-ed) (c. 1825–1864) who was a tribal leader of the Southern Arapaho people and played an important part in the history of Colorado. Many 'Left Hand' things, such as Left Hand Canyon, Left Hand Brewery, and the town of Niwot, Colorado were Read Article

James MacKinnon’s Career Path to NASA

James MacKinnon’s Career Path to NASA Judy Warner: James, please share a little bit about your academic background and how you learned to design PCBs. James MacKinnon: In my junior and senior year at the University of Florida I had some classes where we were required to do some fairly simple PCB design. Basically, if you don't pass those classes, then you don't graduate. And since it's an EE-type class, they want you to create a PCB. They were simple circuits for junior design Read Article

Modern DFM, Princeton University, and Uniquely Shaped PCB Design OnTrack Newsletter January 2018

Modern DFM, Princeton University, and Uniquely Shaped PCB Design OnTrack Newsletter January 2018 On Track Newsletter VOL. 1 No 8 Happy New Year and welcome to the January edition of the Altium^® On Track Newsletter! In Designer Spotlight, we bring you a fresh perspective on DFM and prototyping with industry veteran Dirk Stans, owner of Belgium-based PCB manufacturer Eurocircuits. In Next Gen Innovators, we give you a glimpse under the hood of another impressive Formula SAE contender, Princeton University’s Racing Electric team. In the On Read Article

9:06 What are Embedded Passives/Actives and how to use them? In this Episode, John Magyar is talking about Embedded Components and the Differences between SMT Passive, SMT Active, Embedded Passive and Embedded Active. Learn more about Embedded Components and how to use them. Please leave your comment and share this video with fellow Engineers. See All OnTrack Newsletters here. Watch Video