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As of September 1, 2022, Altium NEXUS® as a brand name has been discontinued and all capabilities are available as part of the Altium enterprise solutions.
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Choosing the Right RFID Card Technology For Your Embedded System
As a pure introvert who fears small talk, I absolutely dread networking events. Besides maintaining endless empty chatter with strangers, picking out the best attire is challenging, especially considering my dreadful fashion sense. Thankfully, I’m much better at choosing the right type of Radio Frequency Identification or RFID card technology for my embedded system projects. What is an RFID Card? In the simplest sense, an RFID card is a token
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Creating Multiple-Part Symbols for a PCB in Altium Designer
How to create multi-part components and symbols in Altium Designer
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. Build a symbol manually or use an advanced symbol generator to do the heavy lifting of symbol creation for you.
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Old Software Doesn’t Need a Leash for New Supplier Parts Updating
Keeping track of component updates is a big job, what with change announcements coming in from vendors and distributors in random announcements and emails throughout the year. Keeping track of random notices and having a good process for implementing them is also difficult. Using schematic and PCB editors, along with local and global libraries in an organized manner helps keep component information organized and available. Use of component
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Introduction To PDN Analyzer Webinar Recap May 10, 2018
If you joined us for the May 10th, 2018, PDN Analyzer
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webinar then the following will be a recap, if not here’s what you missed. You can also view the presentation slides and recording . Key Takeaways about PDN Power Delivery Network () Design Issues Low supply voltage at load components. A low supply voltage at your loads can cause issues like processors outputting faulty logic. These things happen when there is an unexpected voltage drop
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What’s New in Altium Designer 18 Webinar Recap April 19, 2018
April 19th 2018. A beautiful thursday morning and a great day for an Altium Designer webinar. I gather my things and go to the recording studio... In case you missed our Altium Designer 18 live webinar, no worries. You can catch up here with the video recording and presentation slides. If you’re not a fan of videos I’ll try my best to summarize in the webinar notes bellow. Key Takeaways Performance Improvements Multi-threading Multithreading
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True ECAD / MCAD Co-Design Will Eliminate PCB Design Placement Errors
Have you ever had a PCB design returned to you because a component that you placed conflicted with a mechanical feature? Missing even one conflict can cause a lot of grief when it comes time to install the circuit board into the final system. It certainly did in my case where that one part ended up in a location that ultimately wouldn’t fit in the device housing. The only way my layout would work was if I cut an opening in the enclosure for a
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Introduction to Multiboard PCB Design (Part2 ): Connectors - OnTrack
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With Software for Rigid-Flex Designing, You Can Define and Animate Your PCBs
Rigid-flex PCBs can open the door of possibilities wide open for complex form factors involving limited real-estate. If implemented correctly, you could effectively use each and every wall of any shaped chassis as a mounting surface for your PCB(s). Designing these rigid-flex boards in design software, such as Altium Designer, makes it easy to visually see how your components might interact with one another once actually in a flexed or folded
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Engineers Show Us How to Build A New Car From the Ground Up
Rose Hulman FSAE Car Judy Warner : Tell us about your team, what you make, and where you compete. Anthony Lin : We are the Rose Grand Prix Engineering team from Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology and we design, build, and race a Formula style (open wheel open cockpit) race car from scratch every year. This year marks our 7th year in the competition with RGP-7 (name of our new car). We compete in the Formula SAE (Society of Automotive Engineers)
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Rapid Prototyping and Manufacturing Tips from Electronics Expert Duane Benson
Judy Warner: Duane, please share briefly about your background in the electronics industry. Duane Benson: I first burned my fingers with a soldering iron when I was about fourteen. Though I was formally trained and started my career in software development, my first love has always been electronics. My early hardware projects included an electronic stethoscope used to listen through walls for termites chewing on wood, and a caller ID device
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PCB Routing Angle Myths: 45-Degree Angle Vs 90-Degree Angle
There is nothing wrong with a healthy debate, whether it’s related to determining the worst pizza topping or the best solder mask. In the PCB editor world, a debate that plagues designers and researcher alike revolves around PCB routing angles. Should copper tracks of a PCB be routed at a 45-degree angle vs 90 degree angle PCB? With today’s equipment, however, it turns out that it usually doesn’t matter which angle you use. By utilizing modern
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Use Unique ID EEPROM in Your Embedded System to Prevent Design Counterfeiting
There’s a saying that smart people don’t always finish the race first. In college, I remember some classmates copying my assignments, only to end up getting better scores than I did. Being smart didn’t necessarily guarantee me the top grades in college and watching others achieve success based on my ideas became demoralizing. The business world is similar; it isn’t uncommon for companies to copy concepts that work well for their competitors and
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Internal Versus External Surge Protectors: What’s Best for Total PCB Protection
Whether its internal or external surge protection, your electronics device needs something to keep it healthy throughout the lifespan.
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Small Electronic Circuit Design Demands Large Amounts of Attention
With new taxes regularly introduced to the rising costs of living, it’s only a matter of time before consumers suffer from chain effects. It gets to my nerves when my favorite local restaurants increase prices or resort to reducing their serving size. Of course, I would prefer for things to stay the same but I can at least satisfy my hunger by paying a little extra. In electronics, PCB designs are also getting smaller, just like my favorite plate
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How to Use Test Points on PCB | Altium Designer
Maybe it’s because of the old memories of pop quizzes in grade school, but it seems like no one really likes the idea of “testing”. Just as the school children in “A Christmas Story” reacted badly to having to write a theme , people all over the world usually react just as negatively to the idea of taking a test. And yet, if you are going to be a circuit board designer, you are going to have to learn how to use a PCB test point. The good news is
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