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The Challenges Of ECAD Library Management
Implementing a proper system for ECAD data management enhances team productivity and efficiency to help you deliver products on time and within budget. Read on to learn more. Has the inability to properly manage your ECAD data set back your entire design process? This is often the case for many component engineers who need a reliable resource for managing their data lifecycle. Oftentimes, electronics are in the driver’s seat when it comes to new
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Wearable Electronics Inspire Positive Attitudes Towards Fitness by Quantifying Goals
Image source: Flickr User C_osett (CC BY 2.0) For years, I would just pick a direction and start running. When I lived out in the country, my friends and coworkers would ask me how far I had gone and I’d say, “Man, I don’t know. Looped out to the third cattle guard and back. Probably at least a half-marathon, if not three-quarters.” The only way I could get an idea was by driving that same route afterwards and watching my odometer (it was about a
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Utilizing Fanout Strategies To Maximize PCB Real Estate
I have a coworker who always jokes about how “back in his day” PCB design was straightforward. While I usually take his comments as “old man” humor, I had to agree with him one day when I realized how dense my PCB designs had become. The pressure from management to make my boards smaller and smaller had resulted in some heavy routing issues and my dog bone fanout strategies were not cutting it. In designing integrated circuits, fanout refers to
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Heat Sink PCB Mounting: Maximizing Cooling with Best Design Practices for a Surface Mount
Image Source: Flickr user bengt-re ( CC BY 2.0 ) Just How Important Are Heat Sinks? It’s a hot summer day in smoggy Brooklyn… Your fan is in an awkward spot in your overcrowded apartment and you can’t shake the heat. If only you could restructure your apartment’s layout so that the fan is blowing air in your direction to cool you down. The same can be said for your printed circuit board heat sink design if your surface mount technology (SMT) heat
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Design Prep: Centralizing Your Design Data
Electronics design, like cooking, requires having the right ingredients in place to complete your creations. What if all that information was located in a single, centralized location so that everyone in the organization had access to pre-defined, pre-approved design ingredients to speed the process? Read on to learn more. I really like cooking. The satisfaction of tinkering with a recipe, and getting the flavors and balance just right. The
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How to Maximize Copper in Your PCB Design: The Pros and Cons of Copper Pouring Versus Placing
Image Source: Flickr user billautomata ( CC BY 2.0 ) There is a saying in copper pour PCB layout, “Copper is free.” It means a printed circuit board editor designer must think in reverse. A circuit board starts off as solid copper, and the copper you don’t want is removed. It is faster to build, less consumptive, and less expensive to make a printed circuit board that is mostly copper as compared to the same size board that is mostly bare
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PCB Design: Create 3D Component in a Footprint Library
In today’s PCB design process, your design and CAD tool needs to be able to integrate mechanical design workflows into an electrical design tool. Read on to learn how to create 3D component bodies in a footprint library. In today’s PCB design process, you need to be able to integrate mechanical design workflows into an electrical design tool. Transferring inaccurate design data back and forth between the ECAD and MCAD worlds not only causes
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Ruminating Rigid-Flex PCB Design
Learn about the finer points of rigid-flex PCB design with Altium expert Ben Jordan.
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The Fantastic Four Make an Appearance at the IPC Designer Council
Couldn't make it to your last IPC Council meeting? Read about some of the great insights presented during this month's meeting including a look into the future of analysis in Altium Designer
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. how's that? The Fantastic Four Make an Appearance at the IPC Council The Fantastic Four made a special appearance at the IPC Council - OC Chapter on Wednesday, March 2, 2016. Not the superheroes, of course, we’re talking about the four fantastic things that
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