The PCB is designed and formed as a stack of layers. In the early days of printed circuit board (PCB) manufacturing, the board was simply an insulating core layer clad with a thin layer of copper on one or both sides. Connections are formed in the copper layer(s) as conductive traces by etching away (removing) unwanted copper. Fast forward to today, where almost all PCB designs have multiple…
The traditional approach to circuit board design has been to place the components on the top and bottom surfaces of the board. This process is well supported by circuit board assembly houses, which typically use automated pick and place machines to position each component, ready to be soldered onto the surface. The ever-increasing demand for smaller and more integrated electronic products,…
How many of us got into electronics because we were drawn by the myriad of cool switches, knobs, lights and other suitably gadget-centric controls? Fast forward a good few years and that allure is still there, only it is now replaced with the "Snazzy GUI" factor - electronic products that have a sleek, sexy interface. Central to these ever-advancing (and shrinking) product interfaces is touch…
The Technology Current technologies for fabricating printed electronic circuits include: Laser Direct Structuring - used when fine conductor structures are required. 3d printing - Molding DuPont InMold - a circuit is printed onto a plastic substrate, which is then thermoformed and injection molded into the final product shape. Two shot molding - this is a good approach for large quantities with…
When using a Standalone or Private Server license, you may need to reactivate/refresh that license to be able to access and use the wire bonding functionality. For a Standalone license, this is performed from the License Management view. For a Private Server license hosted in the Altium On-Prem Enterprise Server or Altium Infrastructure Server, this is performed from the Admin – Licenses page of…
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