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21:13 Getting PCB Assembly Variants Ready For Manufacturing Watch our webinar: “Getting PCB Assembly Variants Ready For Manufacturing”. Click here. Watch Video

PCB Stackup Basics

PCB Stackup Basics How to assign layer types in a PCB? Expert Phil Salmony shares with us some of his favorite multilayer stackups, complete with guidelines. Read Article

1:7:21 How To Import Libraries and Manage Components With Altium 365 Nothing causes more worries for a designer than the PCB components. Your mind probably starts racing whenever you send out a design for fabrication and assembly, and phone calls start coming in. What did I forget? Did I use all of the correct components? Did I make a mistake that's going to cost the company? Can we meet the deadline to get the design respinned? Why can't I get this right? The problems you can experience with components and Watch Video

Microstrip Patch Antenna Calculator

Microstrip Patch Antenna Calculator for RF Designers Microstrip patch antennas are simple structures to design and fabricate, and they are very useful up to very high frequencies. Read Article

pcb patch antenna

Build Your Own Patch Antenna for Your Next PCB A patch antenna is simple to design in a PCB. These components are placed above a ground plane and require impedance matching. Read Article

Electronics Product Design

Today's PCB Designers Are Driving Electronics Product Design Professional designers know they play a fundamental role in the electronics product development process. Without circuit boards, all those semiconductors are a bit meaningless and they would not be able to provide the modern experiences we all enjoy. Even as PCB designers are so critical in the product development process, they still get the short end of the stick when it comes to product development tools. PCB design software is great for Read Article

Altium Enterprise Digital Transformation

Electrification and Digitalization are Driving the Automotive Industry It's hard to imagine that not too many decades ago, the most complicated and only "electronics" the average car had was just simply – a radio. Typically, a basic AM/FM device might have had an 8-track or a cassette player made up of a single PCB utilizing thru-hole technology and maybe an IC or two. Examples of early automotive computers / electronics. Image credit chipsetc.com Over time, advancing electronics became critical for almost every Read Article

20:20 Designing with Assembly Variants Watch our webinar: “Designing with Assembly Variants”. Click here. Watch Video

6:07 Power Integrity Analysis in Your PCB Design Software Power integrity problems can abound in modern PCBs, especially high-speed boards that run with fast edge rates. These systems require precise design of the PDN impedance to ensure stable power is always delivered throughout the system. Without carefully considering the PDN impedance, you’re at risk of creating ripple and noise in the power distribution network when fast signals switch states. As more signals switch in large ICs, the result is the Watch Video

Embedded Capacitance Materials

Embedded Capacitance Materials Overview One important material that can appear in a high-speed PCB is an embedded capacitance material. These laminates aid power integrity in small boards with high layer counts. Read Article

Moving to Altium Designer from KiCad Making a Smooth Transition to Altium Designer from KiCad Layout In this guide, we’ll focus on importing KiCad Layout PCB designs. Please refer to specific guides if you need to migrate other files. Legacy Translation Before You Begin This guide will show you how to import data from your legacy system into Altium Designer. Before importing all of your legacy data, it’s important to ask yourself, “why do I need to import my legacy data?” Below are Read Article

Hardware-Software Co-design

What's in a Hardware-Software Co-design Process Product development spans across multiple domains, including hardware and software. A co-design process for your hardware and software helps ensure your success. Read Article

Types of TVS Diode

ESD Protection Basics with TVS Diodes Learn about ESD protection basics with TVS diodes, why we need them, and what key parameters make up a typical TVS diode. Read Article

Overcoming Technological Challenges in the PCB Industry

Overcoming Technological Challenges in the PCB Industry In this episode we will discuss all about the technological challenges the industry is facing. Matt will help us understand the “ecosystem” involving the semiconductor industry, advanced packaging, and IC substrates. Read Article

How I Improved My Collaboration Efficiency with Altium 365 In my years as a practising electronics engineer, one of the most significant inefficiencies I have noticed has always been communication between teams, freelancers, contractors, and clients. This has always been the most noticeable when working with firmware developers. And it doesn’t matter if I am working with the firmware developer internally on a permanent team or if I am working with an external contractor who will develop the firmware for Read Article

Board Layer Stackup Considerations for High Speed Board Design

Board Layer Stackup Considerations for High Speed Board Design The PCB layer stackup you build to support high-speed board design needs to be engineered based on layer counts, layer thicknesses, and component lead size. Read Article

High-Speed PCB Stackup Design

The High-Speed PCB Stackup Design Challenge Stackups for high-speed PCBs can be designed many ways, but these systems must be built by balancing engineering constraints in a final product. Read Article