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FR4 Dielectric Constant and Material Properties
Wondering what is FR4? FR4 is by far the most popular set of PCB substrate materials. Here is how FR4 dielectric constant and your material properties will affect your next PCB.
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How the Best Integrated PCB Libraries Compare Electronic Components to Lower Development Costs
With development schedules becoming tighter and technology advancing at an ever faster pace, designers and engineers need tools that help them cut development costs and stay competitive in every way. This means designers need supply chain tools that help them compare electronic component prices and manage their fabrication data in a single program. Each integrated library helps lower development costs and time by providing the supply chain
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Automate Front End Engineering Processes with Kent Balius
This episode is all about smart engineering. Learn how an automated process can help increase your profits and revenues.
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How to Navigate the Perils of the PCB Design Review Process: An Overview
Whether you’re a first-time designer or a hardened veteran, the integrity of your designs relies heavily on inspecting a product for design errors before production. What can be done to identify design flaws while staying productive? Before a new design is sent into production, it's critical to put the design through a PCB design review so that design errors can be identified before manufacturing. In many cases, a design will pass rules checks
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Sync Your Electronics Inventory Management System With the Cloud
Do you use internal databases and tracking tools for electronics inventory management? Sync your inventory management system with the cloud.
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Detroit Become Human Cosplay with Flexible PCBs and CircuitPython
A Father’s Story for “Introduce A Girl To STEM Day”
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Working with Customer PCB Fabrication Data Through the Cloud
Manufacturing won’t begin until you can receive and inspect PCB fabrication data from customers. Here’s how Altium 365 helps by bringing design and fab data into Altium Designer.
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Looking Forward: 2021 PCB Industry Trends and Events to Watch for
Where are we going in these crazy times? Mike Buetow shares with us what to look out for, the current trends, and what will help you be a better design engineer in 2021.
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Remotely Powering Devices, Wirelessly
With electronic devices being available in smaller and smaller sizes and the prevalence of wi-fi networks, the rise of remote monitoring devices around the home and the workplace continues to grow. Smart heating solutions now place sensors in every room, monitoring everything from temperature to occupancy to provide a highly efficient zonal heating system. Intruder detection systems no longer require thousands of meters of wiring to be installed
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Guidelines for Creating Useful PCB Schematic Symbols
The PCB schematic symbols that you use to represent the components are at the heart of your schematic design. The quality of the PCB symbols and how it is arranged can be one of the most critical factors influencing your schematic’s readability. Poor quality PCB schematic symbols will lead to an unreadable schematic sheet that is difficult to understand. I created the largest open-source library for Altium Designer over five years ago, initially
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Using a Thermal Camera for PCB Inspection and Diagnostics
There has likely been a time when you’ve powered on a freshly built prototype for the first time, only to find you’ve hit the current limit on the lab power supply. Even as you increase the current limit to way beyond what you would expect your board to draw, the lab power supply is still limited. If it’s safe, you poke around the board with your finger, but you can’t feel any parts that are hot to the touch. Also, probing around with a
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What Does AMD’s Purchase of Xilinx Mean for the Electronics World?
Who is Xilinx? While AMD is focused on microprocessor production, Xilinx is a specialist producer of FPGA (field-programmable gate arrays), which are particularly useful for telecommunications applications, and the development of 5G across the world has opened up significant growth in this sector. The expected number of new 5G cellular base stations required over the next five to ten years will be in the millions. Xilinx has been one of the front
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IPC-2551 Digital Twin Standards Released
Read our brief on the new IPC-2551 standard and how digital twins might be used in the PCB industry.
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S-Parameter Measurements and Errors in Power Integrity
No matter where you look, it seems S-parameters never go away! They are mandatory tools for understanding some systems, such as an interconnect or antenna, while other network parameters can sometimes give a better conceptual understanding of electrical behavior. These parameters are normally reserved for signal integrity among electronics engineers, but if you look hard enough, you’ll find that S-parameters are also used for power integrity
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Create a High Current Buck Converter Circuit Controller for Voltage
Mark Harris continues a deep dive into high current buck converter design with off-the-shelf components. We include component choice and PCB layout plus all the calculations and guidelines.
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Smart Micro Fan Controller
If you’ve ever had to wear eye protection for an extended period of time, especially if you have prescription inserts in that eye protection, you’ve probably noticed fogging can be a major issue. Last year I designed and 3D printed a small fan unit that mounts a 25mm x 25mm x 10mm fan on each side of a military eye protection. It directs a small flow of air over the inside of the lenses and keeps them clear even during physical exertion on cool
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Complete Guide to PCB Component and Design Reuse in the Cloud
Isaac Newton once said "If I have seen further it is by standing on the shoulders of Giants." Not all designs need to be remade from scratch, and if you organize your designs properly you can easily reuse your old design data in a new project. PCB design reuse practices are great for cutting down design time and ensuring all your products live up to the same level of quality. It’s all about making sure the knowledge you’ve gained from building
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