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Samtec & Altium Streamline Your PCB Design Process - AltiumLive 2022 Don’t spend any more time thinking about connectors than you have to. Altium’s rich design tools with Samtec’s product flexibility and automated design tools ensure the fit and function you need without system redesign. Watch Video

Nexar & Altium 365: Reinventing the Business of Electronics - AltiumLive 2022 It is fairly common to find multiple on-board sources of energy causing EMI on today's portable, mobile, and IoT devices. The EMI from these energy sources can couple and often interfere with the receiver performance of cellular, GPS, and other wireless modules. This presentation describes methods for identifying, characterizing, and reducing the coupling from these energy sources. Highlights: How Altium 365 Works Changes to routine capabilities Watch Video

Altium Designer Best Practices (Part 2) - AltiumLive 2022 This session will cover best practices of using the schematic to convey design intent using net classes and rules. Attendees will also learn to build complex design rules using priorities and classes for components, rules, and nets. Highlights: Working with the ActiveBOM document during the design process Understanding design requirements Role of synchronization Importance of appropriate clearance in the design process Using rooms in the Watch Video

Designing to Prevent Change Orders: Part 2 - AltiumLive 2022 You as a product designer can prevent changes from impacting your production and cost once it’s in manufacturing. We’ll talk about it from a contract manufacturer’s perspective, and give you insights that we see on a common basis that will help you streamline your manufacturing process. Watch Video

Designing to Prevent Manufacturing Change Orders - AltiumLive 2022 You as a product designer can prevent changes from impacting your production and cost once it’s in manufacturing. We’ll talk about it from a contract manufacturer’s perspective, and give you insights that we see on a common basis that will help you streamline your manufacturing process. Highlights: Using efficient design to prevent changes from impacting the production costs How the design and manufacturing process are effected by different types Watch Video

53:54 Stop Getting Stuck - AltiumLive 2022 Order from chaos. Train your engineer. Scope the ECO. Breaking down barriers and predicting and assessing and solving the puzzle. Using design and collaboration tools effectively Design PCBs with a Free Trial of Altium Designer Highlights: Importance of a sequenced scene of the changes Areas of communication that present challenges with changes to boards Risks that come with changes Looking at density to approach difficult design changes Tools Watch Video

How Resilient Does Your BOM Look? AltiumLive 2022 Learn how to ensure resilience of your BOMs using Octopart’s supply chain information within Altium Designer and how the newest Nexar API integrated within your MRP/ERP system can make a positive difference for you! Watch Video

Physics of failure

Physics of Failure Analysis for PCBs and Electronics Assemblies See why high reliability designs are approached with techniques known as Physics of Failure. Read Article

#PCBeTheChange Student Design Competition Winners Announced! | Upverter Education

#PCBeTheChange Student Design Competition Winners Announced! | Upverter Education Announcing the winning teams of the Upverter Education #PCBeTheChange student design competition! Read Article

level up pcb manufacturing

Eliminating Nuances in the PCB Manufacturing Processes with Amit Bahl of Sierra Circuits PCB What is a PCB designer's role in improvement of manufacturing processes and capabilities? Let’s talk about design WITH manufacturing with Amit Bahl, the director of sales and marketing at Sierra Circuits. Read Article

risk vs reward

SAP and mSAP: Risk Vs. Reward During the recent IPC APEX expo, there was a lot of discussion about SAP, or semi-additive PCB processes. As with any new technology in PCB manufacturing, there were people that are excited to jump right in with SAP and start designing with much finer feature sizes and work through the inevitable changes to the traditional thought process. Others are in a let’s wait and see mode and of course, there are a few skeptics of SAP as well. There were a Read Article

Nucleo Shield Multi-Board Design

Nucleo Shields Multi-Board Design Learn how easy it is to create multi-board projects in this practical project article. Mark Harris covers why you would break larger boards into sub assemblies, and connection options between sub assembly boards. Read Article

EnviroSense WiFi Weather Station Multiboard Design

Wireless Module Designs: EnviroSense WiFi Weather Station Multiboard Get started with surface mounted sub-assemblies in this hands-on wireless module designs project. Mark Harris demonstrates the advantages of multi-board assemblies when creating your own surface mount module. Read Article

Transformer Theory Made Simple

Transformer Theory Made Simple Transformers used for 50/60 Hz power conversion must be physically larger than those used in wall-warts. Read this article and you will understand why. Read Article

5 day chip supply

What Would You Do With a 5 Day Chip Supply for PCBs? US companies are reduced to a 5 day chip supply due to demand pressures and a long-lasting shortage in semiconductors. Read Article

Mode conversion

A Guide to Mode Conversion, Its Causes, and Solutions Differential pairs are most often discussed in terms of their impedance and length matching tolerance, both with the goal of ensuring proper termination at the receiver and suppression of common mode noise. On interconnects, such as board-to-board connections or cascaded transmission line arrangements, you have an important EMC compliance metric that is sometimes overlooked. This is mode conversion, which can be visualized in an S-parameter Read Article

Differential stripline impedance calculator

Differential Stripline Impedance Calculator Try our differential stripline impedance calculator, built based on Wadell’s equations. Read Article