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ISO 13485 Compliance: Tools for PCB Designers and Manufacturers Your Altium 365 workspace and Concord Pro can be used as part of a QMS system for ISO 13485 compliance. Here’s how cloud collaboration helps manufacturers. Read Article

Transforming PCB Design with Altium Designer and Altium 365 Matthew Lightsey, founder and principal designer of Granite Summit Designs, based in Warwick, Rhode Island, is no stranger to this challenge. His firm specializes in designing custom PCBs, used in everything from data acquisition systems, high-resolution printers to mobile TV and broadband satellite receiver/transmitters. The designs are used in commercial, industrial, aerospace and defense industries. Read Article

World-Class Electrical Engineering Courses with Rolf Ostergaard Denmark also has a robust tech industry. On several occasions, Speeding Edge partnered with Rolf Ostergaard, founder and owner of EE-Training, to present our two and three-day training courses in Copenhagen and Aarhus, Denmark as well as in Stockholm and Malmo, Sweden and Oslo, Norway. Read Article

12 Ideas for Implementing NFC in Your Design Read to learn about many possibilities for NFC; some of these project ideas are taken from commercially available products or research papers; others are ideas from working through reading the NFC standard. Read Article

Buck Converter Simulation in Altium Designer Are you designing a new power supply? It helps to perform a buck converter simulation during circuit design. Altium Designer makes it easy to perform a buck converter simulation directly from your schematic. Read Article

Low Noise, Low EMI Power Distribution This board has several loads on it, but it is purely a distribution board with no regulation. The main loads are the hefty 5V Tilta nano focus motor, 5V SDI to HDMI converter, 5V Tilta follows focus control, and the battery voltage powered monitor. Out of these, only the SDI to HDMI convert needs remotely clean power. The motor, however, is very electrically noisy, so it needs good isolation. Read Article

Component Library Structure Learn the roles, permissions, component revisions, and lifecycles of our Component Library. It's essential to have them in place now rather than later because it's difficult to change them once you begin to actually start with coponents! Read Article

Single Cell Lithium Polymer Battery Charger Project Learn how to create your first Altium project. This simple example shows you how to build a low-cost USB powered single cell lithium polymer battery charger. Read Article

How Material Characteristics Factor into High Speed PCB Signal Performance Evaluating laminates for a particular PCB implementation can be a complex, multilevel process, especially when it comes to the operation of key components on the board, such as high-speed differential pairs. This article will examine some of the factors that come into play with the evaluation process: materials with a low dielectric content versus materials that are low loss; comparing the advantages and disadvantages of each of them; taking into Read Article

What Happens to Layer Changing Vias When Using PCI Express at Higher Speeds? In our one, two and three-day courses, which we conduct at technical and trade conferences as well as at private on-site classes, we will frequently be asked about particular technology trends and their impact on current design undertakings. Of late, a number of these questions have focused on how the use of PCI Express (also known as PCIe) at higher frequencies impacts layer changing vias. This article will address layer-changing vias, which Read Article

Selecting and Tracking a General-Purpose Op-Amp Learn the most critical parameters that should be considered when you're selecting a general-purpose Op-Amp. Read Article

RGB + White LED Strip Controller I’ve been playing around with RGB LED strips recently for lighting up my test equipment rack as well as some display shelves. On the display shelves, I have the RGB LED strips behind the shelves, which gives a great definition to the objects on the shelf. But I also want to have a high CRI white LED strip on each shelf to light up the objects. Typical RGBW LED strips available through online marketplaces do not have very good white LEDs, and I’m Read Article

This is the DRC You Need to Add I was impressed that, right out of the box, the stock Design Rule Checks (DRCs) in my copy of Altium 20 pretty much covered all the bases on how to make a “standard” Printed Circuit Board (PCB). Altium defaults to “10 mil” rules, which means that the standard spacing and widths of copper tracks is 10 mils. What's more, most of the other spacings also default to 10 mils; pads to tracks, through-holes to other pads or vias. The exceptions being the Read Article

Know the Power Dissipation Understanding power dissipation of an individual component, an electrical block, or even the whole electronics system is essential for electronics engineers. It is important not only to avoid exceeding the maximum limits of components but also to calculate unknown parameters in input or output sides because power dissipation is related to system voltage and current. In this article, I describe my practices for analyzing power dissipation in Read Article

Building the Library - Unified Data Model Introduction This may come as a shock to some, but I was raised on a farm back in Pennsylvania. Every spring, we would prepare for the planting season. It was amazing to me to take the seeds, plant them in the field, tend them, and in time end up with a crop. Within each one of those seeds was packed with an untapped potential to produce something amazing. In the same way, in the PCB Design field, we have untapped potential available to us in the Read Article

Planning for the Future with Cirris Systems and Altium Technological advancements have been a hallmark of the past few decades, from the widespread adoption of internet technology to the smartphones and wireless devices we rely on every day to stay connected. While few could have predicted the speed at which technology has grown since 1984, back when Salt Lake City’s Cirris Systems was a startup company, designing products by hand on a humble kitchen table. Since then, they’ve become a major leader Read Article

Git Tagging and Git for Hardware Development in Altium Designer The concept of revisioning in electronics design has stayed fairly standard across the industry. A revision will typically consist of a letter and sometimes contain a number. There are many other revision schemes which people have experimented with, but, from my experience, the standard letter revision seems to be prevalent within our industry. One question that I have always asked myself is: What happened to all the revisions in between? I Read Article