Holistic Product Design for Electrical Engineers with Jeremy Blum - AltiumLive Keynote

Medical wearables need to be sleek, unencumbered, and compact; able to collect meaningful medical data with few (or no) wires attached to the patient. This creates demand for flexible PCB layouts. While you’re trying hard to push the limits of space, to use smart materials, and to minimize its footprint, it can be damn annoying when you fall out of a board outline (particularly when dealing with an irregular board shape). Read on to find out how

A source of PCB malfunctions during PCB manufacturing, especially in outdoor environments, comes from moisture on the boards. Fortunately, there are several options for protecting your boards when they are deployed. Read on to learn which is best for your application. I once had an outdoor sensor system with a custom PCB protective coating that would stop recording data for two hours at dawn every day. This was not because the board needed its

Pin headers are one of the common components in PCBs, but they have a specifications that is not always considered: the plating material. The material you see in PCB pin headers, connectors, pogo pins, and through-hole posts is just a plating, and it is deposited over a base metal that provides the main structural properties. While it might seem like a minor detail, pin plating is a big determinant of reliability in pin connections, just as it is