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Should a Capacitor Be Used For ESD Protection? Should a Capacitor Be Used For ESD Protection? Capacitors are not capable of fully protecting a system from ESD, other components are also needed for comprehensive protection. Read Article
Why Are Advanced Car Radars Using So Many Antennas? Why Are Advanced Car Radars Using So Many Antennas? Advanced car radar systems rely on large virtual arrays for high-resolution imaging, long range, and/or tracking of multiple objects. Read Article
The Current State of AI in PCB Design in 2023 The Current State of AI in PCB Design in 2023 Your favorite machine learning, optimization, and generative AI algorithms may soon be used in your favorite PCB design program. Now that ChatGPT has become a household name and competitor companies are developing their own GPT equivalents (Claude, LLaMa, etc.), EDA startups are looking at how to leverage these tools to help PCB designers and engineers be more productive. With so many industries touched by automation and AI, it was only a matter Read Article
How to Build a Hardware Startup: Beginning to Realize Your Electronics Dreams How to Build a Hardware Startup: Beginning to Realize Your Electronics Dreams Every hardware startup has questions on funding, sourcing, testing, and manufacturing. Let’s go step-by-step through the main questions. Read Article
Electronic Hardware Startup Tips: From Idea to Manufacturing Electronic Hardware Startup Tips: From Idea to Manufacturing AI, smart devices, proliferation of high compute to the edge, and ubiquitous integration of just about every electronic devices have put us solidly in what some call the Fourth Industrial Revolution. The history of the past two decades of technological development is one where the barriers to entry into market have never been lower, including for innovators who have never built a piece of hardware. Therefore, it should come as no surprise that we Read Article
Better Thermal and Power Efficiency for Your PCB Better Thermal and Power Efficiency for Your PCB Our guest Steven Schnier, Systems Engineer for Power Management at Texas Instruments generously shares the different strategies for designing better thermal and power efficient PCB. Read Article
40:50 MCAD-ECAD Collaboration Workflow We invite you to watch our webinar, during which the Altium Product team members will demonstrate the most efficient MCAD-ECAD collaboration workflow and answer questions. Watch Video
Crosstalk Reduction and Elimination Techniques in Altium Designer Crosstalk Analysis, Reduction, and Elimination Techniques in PCB Design Whether you're designing a digital board with a ton of traces, or an RF board operating at very high frequencies, any electronic device with propagating signals will experience crosstalk. It's simply a matter of whether that crosstalk is so extreme that the system fails to function, or whether crosstalk is within some acceptable limit. There is no universal level of "acceptable" crosstalk levels, but if you do find through simulation and Read Article
n What's New in Altium 365 - May 2023 The latest Altium 365 updates are here. Read now to learn more. Read Article
47:22 What’s New In Altium Designer: Mid-Year Update Discover the new features in Altium Designer 23 and how they can be incorporated into your workflow. Watch Video
PCB manufacturing startup The Startup's Guide to PCB Manufacturing When it’s time to scale your PCB into high volume manufacturing, where exactly should you produce? Read Article
Fabrication Notes: Communicate Clearly Fabrication Notes For Rigid-Flex PCBs Read Article
Inspire and Educate through Open-Source Hardware Products Inspire and Educate through Open-Source Hardware Products Lukas Henkel will share with us what made him interested in designing electronics, some details about the development of his Open-source laptop project, and will even give us a sneak peek of the actual design development on Altium Designer. Read Article
Addressing Forward and Backward Crosstalk in PCB Design Addressing Forward and Backward Crosstalk in PCB Design Crosstalk in high-speed PCB design appears FEXT and NEXT, and it depends on the rise time of signals traveling on transmission lines. Read Article
soc2 Altium Achieves SOC 2 Type 2, Reinforcing Commitment to Data Security and Compliance We are pleased to announce the successful completion of the Service Organization Control (SOC) 2 Type 2 certification. Read Article
supply chain The Emerging Role of Mexico in the Electronics Supply Chain In this insightful discussion, Andrew sheds light on Mexico's distinctive edge in electronics production. Furthermore, he provides us with a comprehensive comparison of the logistical aspects between Mexico and China's production processes. Read Article
g Altium Announces Launch of Altium 365 GovCloud Altium 365 GovCloud is a dedicated region operated by Altium, exclusively managed by U.S. Persons, and located within the AWS GovCloud region in the United States. Read Article