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Created: August 28, 2018
Updated: March 16, 2020

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Choosing A Converter or Regulator For your Power Supply Design This article will go on a brief tour of the main choices in DC power supply design. It tackles converters and regulators, linear and switch mode, and isolation consideration. Read now to learn more. Read Article

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8 Things you Need to Know about Copper Copper roughness has an impact on high-speed digital designs. Choose your copper wisely. John Coonrod gives us pro tips when picking the most suitable copper to use on your next design. Read Article

What is schematic capture? Create an optimum PCB layout with minimum effort. Basic principles and rules of thumb in creating a schematic. Read Article

Switching Power Supply Filter Design When optimizing your filter performance, it is important to choose your components wisely. This article will serve as your comprehensive guide, read now. Read Article

Power Supply Filtering Options This article will help PCB designers identify the filter requirements, select the best options and locate the optimum places within the circuit design to incorporate filtering. Read Article

Pi Filter Designs for Power Supplies In this article, Expert Mark Harris will be looking at the low-pass filter arrangement. He will cover basic principles all the way to design constraints. Read now to learn more. Read Article

Mechanical and Electrical Design Come Together With Altium’s MCAD CoDesigner Electronics designers working in small design houses or in large enterprises often encounter a common set of challenges when interfacing with mechanical designers. For many new products, the mechanical form factor requirements will constrain the electrical design in terms of physical layout, location of interfaces, and component selection. For many electronic products, flex and rigid-flex board designs require careful modeling of the mechanical Read Article

What is the difference between ECAD and MCAD? Accurately design PCBs and enclosures with an integrated ECAD/MCAD solution in a virtual environment. Mark Harris gives us more info in this article. Read it now. Read Article

How to Use Ferrite Beads, Chips, Cores, and Plates Are you using ferrite beads correctly in your PCB layout? Learn more about all the different uses for ferrites in your PCB. Read Article

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