Mobile menu
PCB Design
Easy, Powerful, Modern

The world’s most trusted PCB design system.

Learn More

PCB Design

Cover Photo for Altium 365 Review Inside Altium 365: A Power User's First-Hand Review Ted Fryberger, an experienced engineer, shares his experience working with Altium 365, the first cloud-based electronic product design platform. Read his review! Read Article
Efficiency And Noise Top 10 Switching Regulator Modules Top 10 Switching Regulator Modules Discover the top 10 switching regulator modules based on efficiency and noise levels in this comprehensive analysis. Voltage regulators play a crucial role in electronic devices, and this article provides valuable insights into real-world performance, helping you choose the right regulator for your specific circuit design. With in-depth testing and a scoring system, the article highlights the top-performing regulators while addressing the challenge of limited and inconsistent datasheet information. Explore the results and make informed decisions to enhance your circuit's efficiency and reliability. Read Article
3D Printing For Electronic Lab Organization 3D Printing For Electronic Lab Organization 3D printing technology offers electronic designers fantastic opportunities to improve their development processes, produce product mock-ups and even create custom parts for their production devices. However, the benefits of 3D printers don’t end there; they can have another equally important purpose in your design process, namely, helping you organize your electronics lab space so you can work smarter. Lab Space Issues The typical electronics lab Read Article
Modular Electric Powertrains Modular Electric Powertrains As a part of this chat, Zach and Mohamed cover how long it takes to introduce new concepts to the market, how Scalvy's tech works, AI integration, and much more. Read Article
A Learning Exercise - Voltage Regulator Testing Fixture A Learning Exercise - Voltage Regulator Testing Fixture In this article, Mark Harris looks at how to pull the imperfect prototype back on track with some ideas for future improvements. Read Article
spi pull-up resistors You Don't Need Pull-up Resistors on SPI Lines Pull-up resistors are not required on SPI lines. There are certain instances where they can be used without affecting the functionality of the push-pull buffer. Read Article
Using ChatGPT to Analyze Your Test Data How to Use ChatGPT to Analyze Power Test Data In this article, Ari Mahpour talks about how to best utilize ChatGPT to analyze your battery or power test data. Read Article
SIG/GND/SIG + PWR/GND Stackup SIG/GND/SIG + PWR/GND Stackups: Will This Work in 4-Layer PCBs? The most popular 4-layer PCB stackup is signal/GND/GND/signal, but what about signal/GND/PWR/GND? Read Article
embedded systems testing How to Design for Test in Embedded Systems Embedded systems can take a design for test approach in system development and testing. Read Article
PCB design job interview guide PCB Design Interview Questions: A Guide for New Engineers Newer PCB designers: here’s what you’ll face during your first round of job interviews. Follow these tips if you want to make an impression. Read Article
Sales, Marketing, and the PCB Industry Sales, Marketing, and the PCB Industry In this episode, Dan Beaulieu, founder and owner of Db Management Group shares the PCB industry's broad marketing trends including how it's stuck in the past, the declining trade show industry, how sales reps can stay relevant, and much more. Read Article
Top 3 Multi-Board PCB Connectivity Errors Top 3 Multi-Board PCB Connectivity Errors Multi-board PCB design errors almost always come back to some element of connections between boards. Here’s how to fix them. Read Article
Metyos & the Future of Wearable Medical Devices Metyos & the Future of Wearable Medical Devices Zach and Paul Durand-Estèbe, Lead Electronic Developer at Metyos have a fascinating conversation about how Metyos is contributing to the future of wearable medical devices. Read Article
Rigid Flex PCB’s: Advantages and Challenges Rigid-Flex PCBs: Advantages and Challenges Rigid-flex PCB technology merges rigid boards' stability with flexible circuits' flexibility. Read this article to learn about Rigid-flex PCB technology's advantages of space efficiency, reliability, durability, and complexities associated with bend radius considerations, material selection, and challenges related to signal integrity. The successful design of rigid-flex PCBs requires collaboration, thorough testing, and meticulous planning. Read Article
Quality Reports, Vendor Models, & EDI CON Quality Reports, Vendor Models, & EDI CON In this episode, Benjamin Dannan, defense & aerospace contractor. talks about power integrity, high amps, quality reports, vendor models, the importance of verification, and much more. Read Article
Lid Assembly Design Part II Concept Phase – Lid Assembly Design Part 2 We are continuing the journey through lid assembly design on our Open Source Laptop project. Designing a test adapter — Layout Now we have to put all of our work in an actual hardware design. The layout of this board is straightforward, as we only have one high-speed interface to pay special attention to. The DisplayPort interface can de-skew up to 20UI per specification. UI is short for Unit Interval which is the reciprocal of the bit rate. For Read Article
intrusive soldering When Should You Use Intrusive Soldering? Your PCB assembler can offer intrusive soldering as an assembly option. Here’s how it works and what not to do to your PCB footprint. Read Article