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What You Need to Know About Choosing Embedded Modems for IoT

What You Need to Know About Choosing Embedded Modems for IoT IoT enables you to control devices over the internet. If you grew up in an era where the Internet existed without Google, you may be as amazed as I am to see how far technology has evolved. It would have been beyond my wildest imagination to think about machines conversing intelligently on the Internet without much human intervention. Back when I was introduced to the online world, it took several minutes to simply load a single page of sports Read Article

AutoRouter and Massive Potential for Routing Ease

AutoRouter and Massive Potential for Routing Ease I once owned a little pop-up tent trailer, and hooking it up to my car was a very involved process. My wife would use a combination of hand signals and shouted instructions to guide me in as I moved the car back and forth in order to position the hitch perfectly under the trailer coupler. One day my father in-law-was helping me and I started my lengthy explanation to him of the hitching process. Without saying a word he simply reached down Read Article

Comparing Electronic Prices with Supply Chain Visibility

Comparing Electronic Prices with Supply Chain Visibility Thankfully, I’m no longer a broke college student that has ramen every other day for dinner. But the spending and budgeting habits I developed during that period of my life have stuck with me and served me well into adulthood. I’m not eating ramen anymore, but I still keep an eye on my monthly budget. If you’re considering which components to include in your next PCB and are trying to formulate a production budget, you’ll need access to supply Read Article

Impedance and PCB Etching: Utilizing Altium Designer for Your Board Needs

Impedance and PCB Etching: Utilizing Altium Designer for Your Board Needs Today’s high-speed PCB designs require that the design engineer take charge of how the circuit board will be built. There was a time where PCB construction specifics were handled by manufacturing engineers in another department, or even in another company. How the board was built up didn’t have an important effect on the signal performance, and the purpose of the design team was to simply create electrical circuitry that performed the function Read Article

Preparing for Manufacturing with PCB Panelization Software

Preparing for Manufacturing with PCB Panelization Software If you work in manufacturing or you plan to produce a new product, productivity is the name of the game. Ever since the Industrial Revolution, the focus has been producing more widgets per man hour, and PCBs are no different. When you’re bringing a new product to market, why pay more for your order than you need to? One way to improve productivity in a PCB manufacturing process is to use the proper panelization scheme. If you have the right PCB Read Article

Utilizing Layout Options for Rigid-Flex Design

Utilizing Layout Options for Rigid-Flex Design If you own an electronic device that folds, bends, twists, or deforms in some way, it most likely contains a rigid-flex PCB. These circuits contain many of the elements in any PCB, like traces, vias, and even components mounted on a flexible ribbon. However, getting started with a comprehensive design for these circuits requires the right software specifically built for rigid-flex boards. Form factors are becoming more specialized and demanding Read Article

Weekly Digest: Printed Electronics and PCB Design

Weekly Digest: Printed Electronics and PCB Design We’ve collected everything published this week to bring our readers resources to read, watch and listen to all in one place. This week we’ve explored Printed Electronics on the podcast by discussing materials and modern applications of the technology. We’d like to take an opportunity to share a few other recent resources on the topic: Printed Electronics Whiteboard Video with David Marrachki How to Design Printed Electronics in Altium Designer 19 Read Article

Impedance Controlled Routing for Boards Made in Altium Designer

Impedance Controlled Routing for Boards Made in Altium Designer The 3D field solver in Altium Designer makes impedance controlled routing easy and lets you create design rules for your system. Read Article

The Right Tools Will Help Your PCB Layout Time Estimation

The Right Tools Will Help Your PCB Layout Time Estimation To accurately know how to plan for your PCB design, you need the right tools to help with your PCB layout time estimation. ALTIUM DESIGNER Giving the most accurate results from a PCB design software out there. When exploring a new printed circuit board design, it is beneficial to estimate how long it will take to complete the layout. This will allow for production and test to be properly scheduled plus synchronize the release of the design with Read Article

48:57 High-Speed Board Design Rules to Get Your PCB Designed Right the First Time Understanding the principles of signal/power integrity and EMI by the electronic engineer is necessary, but unfortunately our experience does not guarantee the successful functioning of the system. Converting the principles into quantities built by the PCB layout designer will bring us closer to this goal. This lecture will cover 10 critical issues regarding the return current path and bypass capacitors roles, cross talk by coupling, Faraday Watch Video

PCB Design Process Concepts

PCB Design Process Concepts Have you ever seen a architectural masterpiece like the Golden Gate bridge or maybe an historic building like the Paris’ Notre Dame Cathedral? Then wondered how they came up with that idea and how they executed? A few words come to mind: Planning, planning and adjusting. PCB and SOC Package Design is sort of like that, meaning it is truly a puzzle of parts, circuit interfaces, power planes, thousands of signals, via transitions and many design Read Article

Weekly Digest: Altium at IPC Apex Expo Week in Review

Weekly Digest: Altium at IPC Apex Expo Week in Review In this article, we’re rounding up and collecting everything we’ve published this week for our readers. It’s the weekend and a lot of people are coming out of IPC APEX and DesignCon. See our very own Judy Warner discuss our goals for the industry in this video interview by Kelly Dack at I-Connect007. Get ready to expand your knowledge. It’s been a busy week! Altium Videos on YouTube Stop by the Altium or Altium Designer^® Youtube Channels and keep Read Article

Choosing Equivalent ICs in Your PCB

How to Find Equivalent ICs in Your PCB When I was younger, I would routinely open up old or broken electronics just to see how they worked. I didn’t start to understand how they worked until I was older, but I always marvelled at the mass of components and the complexity with which they were laid out on a circuit board. I would even have fun connecting from different devices in the hopes that I could resurrect a broken device. ICs in your PCB have a number of specifications that must Read Article

How Integrated PCB Design Software Helps you Manage Documentation and Outputs

How Integrated PCB Design Software Helps you Manage Documentation and Outputs If you’re like me, then you’re a hardware fanatic. You’re the type that enjoys creating and watching your ideas come to life before your eyes. The last thing you want to do is sit behind a desk and create change orders, bills of materials, and assembly plans for your new product. What if there was a way to cut down the time required to generate these important documents? With deliverables and documentation requiring standardized formats and Read Article

SMART System for Data Management

SMART System for Data Management I have seen it, and perhaps you have too, where excessive design problems and too many re-spins of a PCB design can be attributed to just one thing; improper data management. I worked with a company once that considered half a dozen board spins acceptable just to iron out all the library problems. These kinds of problems can be greatly reduced and even eliminated with careful data management. The SMART system spells out a data management process Read Article

2019 Five Tech Predictions — The Decade of Disruption

2019 Five Tech Predictions — The Decade of Disruption We’re coming in for a wild ride in 2019. The last few years have been pretty crazy, and 2019 looks to continue to amplify this highly innovative and disruptive trend. While some may be nervous about trends in technology such as artificial intelligence, I'm still quite optimistic. The most long-term successful aspects of our civilization are those that rip apart on a regular basis. Frequent disruption allows for people to start anew and create Read Article