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Why You Need to Ask the Questions
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Customizable Layer Stack Table
Place and customize a layer stack table including width, text, and alignment directly in your PCB workspace.
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About the Altium Designer 19.1 Update
In this video, Ben Jordan talks about the Altium Designer 19.1 software update, what’s new with some features and bug fixes, and why anyone with Altium Designer should update to this latest release.
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Greg Papandrew on His Background and the Buyers of Today
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Greg Papandrew on the Need to Train Buyers
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Greg Papandrew on Better Board Buying
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Greg Papandrew on the Importance of Good Customer Service
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Passive Intermodulation in PCBs for 5G Systems
5G networks are coming. Are your PCBs ready? Anyone pays attention to the top bar on their phone has noticed the 4G indicator. If you use a major wireless carrier in the U.S., you’ll likely see 5G in the top bar once you buy your next smartphone. 5G systems designers, especially PCB designers, will need to work with higher frequencies, faster data rates, lower power budgets, and plenty of other performance requirements. Nonlinearity will also
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Clearing Up Trace Impedance Calculators and Formulas
While it might not be obvious to the casual or to those who think the mathematics underlying PCB design is largely settled, there is plenty of disagreement regarding the right formula to calculate trace impedance. This disagreement extends to online trace impedance calculators, and designers should make themselves aware of the limitations of these tools. The Problem with a Trace Impedance Calculator If you use your favorite search engine to find
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Budgetary Quote Early in the Design Process
New products that will be produced in high volumes always start with a prototype, and multiple boards will end up being built throughout the product design and development process. Costs involved have to be scrutinized along the way and at each stage in prototyping, and one way to do this is to request a budgetary quote for your design. Budgetary quotes provide an estimate for procuring the PCB, assembly services, and the parts in the assembly
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Benchmarking Practices and Process for PCB Designers
Benchmarking is a company-wide process for analyzing company performance against industry leaders. Companies use it to better understand how their top products perform and allows them to develop plans to improve or adapt specific technologies or practices. Benchmarking uses a set of metrics to measure performance, such as cost per unit of measure, productivity per unit of measure, cycle time of x per unit of measure or defects per unit of measure
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Why PCB Data Management is Important
Recently, I celebrated a birthday. Although I do not want to give away my age, let us say I can easily order from any senior menu in a restaurant. I realize the older I get that either I am slowing down or things are speeding up. I concluded it was a bit of both, but much more of the latter. In the words of Charles Dickens in the literary classic A Tale of Two Cities: “It was the best of times it was the worst of times.” Those in the electronics
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PCB Designers Motivated by Data Quality
When you look at the many steps involved with a single PCB design, it is easy to get lost in those details. Figuring out our next steps is often overwhelming. When that happens to me, after taking a deep breath, I repeat a common phrase that has become my professional mantra. “Eat the Elephant.” The old riddle is, how do you eat the elephant? Answer: One bite at a time. It is a skill to take a massive project and break it down to its parts
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Weekly Digest: John Coonrod and PCB Industry Experts
This week topics explored on the PCB Design Blog include common routing topologies for memory applications, power delivery systems design, and successful electronics assembly. Read on for this exclusive information from PCB Industry Experts and find all the articles and videos we’ve published this week in one convenient location. If you’ve got burning questions, let us know, and remember to tag us on social media if you’d like to share your
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PCB Library Standardization: How to Build a Clean and Consistent PCB Data Library
Judy Warner: Cherie, before we get started, please take a moment to define what a “library” is and what the full scope of that entails. Cherie Litson: Most of us would define a “library” as a consistent file of symbols and a consistent file of footprints (decals, land-patterns, etc.) connected with some form of a database. You don’t even need to have the database, just a good schematic symbol file and a footprint file and a method to link them
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