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Student Rocket Team Oronos Polytechnique Shoots for the Stars with PCB Designs

Student Rocket Team Oronos Polytechnique Shoots for the Stars with PCB Designs In this interview I talk with Nathanael Beaudoin-Dion, Avionics lead for the Oronos Polytechnique Rocket team from Polytechnique Montreal Technical University. Each year in June, Oronos competes in the Spaceport America Cup, the world’s largest rocketry competition which takes place in New Mexico at the only commercial spaceport in the world. Enjoy this article as well as the photos of their rockets and videos from this inspiring team. Judy Read Article

Draftsman: What’s New in Altium Designer 19

Draftsman: What’s New in Altium Designer 19 Draftsman^® has been a valuable asset to designers since Altium Designer 16. Although some users may have found it to be incomplete due to their unique board requirements, Draftsman has helped many designs go to production. Since its introduction Draftsman has evolved more and more into what it is today: a robust, stable, and powerful PCB drawing editor, specifically made to help designers automate their fabrication and assembly drawing process Read Article

OnTrack Newsletter: Why Use a Service Bureau? Multilayer Design Tips, Steps to a Good Design Release - January 2019

OnTrack Newsletter: Why Use a Service Bureau? Multilayer Design Tips, Steps to a Good Design Release - January 2019 OnTrack Newsletter JANUARY 2019 VOL. 2 No 9 “AT YOUR SERVICE” Insights from a PCB Design Service Bureau Companies and design teams look to professional PCB design service providers to support their product development for a variety of reasons. In this article, we talk with Scott Miller, CEO of Freedom CAD, about what dynamics, benefits, and potential concerns come into play when contracting with a design service provider. READ FULL ARTICLE TRICKS Read Article

How to Design With a DP83848C Ethernet PHY

How to Design With a DP83848C Ethernet PHY In my university days, high-speed internet was non-existent. Online gaming was often limited to Starcraft or Warcraft, played over the Local Area Network (LAN). Friends would gather and start battling each other from different computers within a house, with cries of victories reverberating through the walls. It’s possible to be an awful Warcraft player and still design great PCBs. However, if you fail to understand the LAN and its underlying Read Article

Looking Forward What to Expect After Switching from OrCAD

Looking Forward What to Expect After Switching from OrCAD In my collection of tools out in the garage, I have a pair of tin snips far older than I am. I inherited this defective tool from my father, and it may be 80 years old for all I know. These tin snips are difficult to use because they’ve become dull and loose due to their age, but it was hard for me to make a change because they belonged to my dad. The tin snips frustrated me, so I would find ways to work around them. Finally, after being fed up Read Article

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The Need To Control Routing Impedance

The Need To Control Routing Impedance The design approach of controlled impedance routing is a key ingredient of high speed PCB design, in which effective methods and tools must be adopted to ensure the intended high speed performance for your PCBs. So unless you carefully design your routes within your PCB, the impedance would be uncontrolled, and its value would vary from point to point throughout the trace. And because your PCB traces don’t act like simple connections at high Read Article

Weekly Digest: New Content from Altium

Weekly Digest: New Content from Altium In this article, we’ve collected everything published this week to share learning opportunities and insights for our users and followers. Those of you who know Altium, know that you can count on us to provide resources for growth and development in the PCB Design industry. Those of you who are new to our resources - welcome! Get ready to expand your knowledge. AltiumLive Munich AltiumLive Munich brought together experts from different industries Read Article

Pipelining Your Design File Process with Manufacturing Output Files

Pipelining Your Design File Process with Manufacturing Output Files An effective PCB design process requires that every step be mapped out and connected together so that the data flows through the design naturally. This type of data management is also known as “pipelining,” and its intention is to guarantee that the design data moves systematically from step to step without any interruption. With advances in today’s PCB design tools the first part of pipelining PCB design data, the component selection process has Read Article

Migrating From Cadence OrCAD® To Altium Designer®

Migrating From Cadence OrCAD® To Altium Designer® This guide is intended for understanding Cadence OrCAD to Altium conversion. Even if you opened Altium Designer the first time and are not familiar with working with this software yet, this guide will allow you to significantly speed up exploring its basic features. The guide was written by highly experienced experts of Cadence OrCAD / Allegro PCB Designer and Altium Designer features who studying these widely used software systems for years Read Article

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