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Utilizing Fanout Strategies To Maximize PCB Real Estate 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 Read Article
Maximizing PCB Cooling with Best Design Practices for Surface Mount Heat Sinks 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 Read Article
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Design Prep: Centralizing Your Design Data 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 Read Article
How to Maximize Copper in Your PCB Design: The Pros and Cons of Copper Pouring Versus Placing 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. Picking Read Article
Creating 3D Component Bodies in a Footprint Library 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 Read Article
Rigid-Flex PCB Design Ruminating Rigid-Flex PCB Design Learn about the finer points of rigid-flex PCB design with Altium expert Ben Jordan. Read Article
The Fantastic Four Make an Appearance at the IPC Designer Council 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®. 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 Read Article
The Wild West of PCB Design - Part Choice Showdown The Wild West of PCB Design - Part Choice Showdown Does your part selection process ever feel like a wild west showdown, where every stakeholder is out to protect their own self-interests at the expense of your own? Learn how to turn your part choice selections into a win-win for your entire design team with a new feature in Altium Designer® 16. Link Does your part selection process ever feel like a scene from a wild west movie, where every stakeholder is out to protect their own self-interests Read Article
Altium Designer 16 Is Now Available Altium Designer 16 Is Now Available Altium Designer® 16 is here! This release is available now as a free upgrade to all Altium Subscription customers and can be downloaded on the Altium Products Download page. Not an Altium Subscription customer? Contact our support team now to upgrade. This release is all about tapping into your true design potential and includes powerful new features to accelerate your PCB design workflow. From productivity-focused enhancements to intelligent Read Article