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Creating Components in Altium 365 at Warp Speed Creating Components in Altium 365 at Warp Speed In this article, Ari Mahpour shows you how to add components to your Altium 365 library leveraging the Component Search Engine from Samacsys or SnapEDA. Read on to discover the effectiveness of these free resources on the Cloud. Read Article
Solidworks PCB to Altium Designer Solidworks PCB to Altium Designer Read Article
Ultra HDI - More Frequently Asked Questions Ultra HDI - More Frequently Asked Questions What is Ultra-HDI? There is a lot of conversation about “Ultra-HDI” especially with all of the anticipated work being done as part of the CHIPS Act. In my experience, Ultra-HDI means different things to different people depending on where their capabilities and expertise are. IPC has created a working group to address ultra-HDI and their position is that to be considered ultra-HDI, a design needs to include one or more of the following parameters Read Article
How to Design a Bias Tee for a Power Amplifier How to Design a Bias Tee for a Power Amplifier Bias tees are used in some RF systems to separate AC and DC power along a particular line. Learn more about bias tee design in this article. Read Article
Security on CAN bus with Ken Tindell Security on CAN bus with Ken Tindell A lot of interesting facts about cyber security and automobile hacking that you would not want to miss! Watch through the end and make sure to check the additional resources below. Read Article
RF Power Amplifier Module PCB Design RF Power Amplifier Module PCB Design We’ll examine how to design a PCB with a power amplifier. This module generates its own source signal using a VCO. Read Article
Achieving Diversified Electronics Supply Chain Achieving Diversified Electronics Supply Chain In this episode, we continue the discussion on diversifying the electronic supply chain. Our guest Case Engelen the CEO of Titoma shares his insight about moving some of the manufacturing to other Southeast Asian countries and South America. Read Article
PCB Manufacturing Then and Now A Lookback to the Evolution of the PCB Industry with Happy Holden Happy Holden, a legend in the PCB Industry and one of our favorite Altium Industry Expert contributors gives us a trip to his 53 years of experience in the industry. Read Article
37:00 Effectively Using Design Reuse Blocks Watch our webinar: “Effectively Using Design Reuse Blocks”. Click here. Watch Video
Impedance Management Through PCB Stackup Design With Reference Planes Impedance Management Through PCB Stackup Design With Reference Planes Learn design strategies for using controlling impedance and controlled dielectric in your PCB for accurate manufacturing. Read Article
Trace Resistance vs Trace Impedance When Trace Resistance Trumps Trace Impedance Trace resistance, trace impedance, plane resistance, and plane impedace: when do you need to worry about all of these quantities? Resistance and impedance both are important in small traces and fat rails on a PCB, both internally and externally. Sometimes a new designer entering the world of impedance controlled buses might think they have a trace resistance target, when really they have a trace impedance target. While in power electronics, we Read Article
Inverted-F Antenna Inverted-F Antenna Design For a PCB Learn how to design an inverted-F antenna for an RF PCB layout. Read Article
Pole-Zero Analysis and Transient Analysis in Circuit Design Pole-Zero Analysis and Transient Analysis in Circuit Design Here’s how pole-zero analysis as part of transient analysis can help you identify underdamped responses, zero-output frequencies, and much more. Read Article
Power Testing PCB Automated PCB Testing With FixtureFab In this episode, Zach is talking with the co-founders of FixturFab, Duncan Lowder and Joe Selvik about power testing the PCB using automated test fixtures and turnkey systems. Read Article
How to Use SFP Connectors in Your PCB Layout How to Use SFP Connectors in Your PCB Layout SFP connectors are used to route data into fiber optic transceiver modules, which are normally found in high-speed networking equipment. Today, however, I’ve had multiple design requests that involve the use of fiber transceivers outside of a data center environment. Newer systems in sensor fusion, MIMO systems, rugged OpenVPX switches, and some industrial robotics need to stream huge amounts of data back to a workstation or server, with data Read Article
How To Learn PCB Design How To Learn PCB Design This handy compilation of PCB design learning resources will keep your PCB design skills on top of the game. Read Article
CP2102 USB to UART Module CP2102 USB to UART Module PCB Design Project See how to use the CP2102 in a new project for a USB to serial converter module. You can use the same steps to place this on a larger PCB. Read Article