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Double-sided PCB soldering Best Design Practices for Double-Sided PCB Reflow Soldering with SMD Parts Read our guidelines for designers who want to ensure successful double-sided PCB soldering. Read Article
Invest in Your Career: Take Time to Explore and Be Creative Invest in Your Career: Take Time to Explore and Be Creative Get out (or online) and learn! This episode with Tomas Chester is all about engaging and contributing to the design community. Watch it now or listen on the go. Read Article
decoupling capacitor optimization Decoupling Capacitor Optimization and Resources for Power Integrity Decoupling capacitor optimization is more than a buzzword, it’s all about selecting the right set of capacitors to keep power stable in your PDN. Read Article
Temperature Sensor Project: Analog Temperature Sensor ICs Temperature Sensor Project: Analog Temperature Sensor ICs Learn more about the fourth class of temperature sensors in a series of articles that are all about measuring temperature. Discover their advantages and disadvantages as well as common topologies for their implementation. Read Article
Raspberry Pi microcontroller Raspberry Pi Enters the World of Microcontrollers Learn more about the new Raspberry Pi microcontroller, its specifications, and ideal applications. Read Article
Underwater ROV Design and Component Selection Underwater ROV Design and Component Selection Underwater ROVs need to obey the same reliability standards as other high-performance, high uptime products like aerospace and military systems. High reliability is all about component selection and designing boards that are fully manufacturable while keeping a system safe. The DFM features, supply chain tools, and design verification engine in Altium Designer give underwater ROV builders a complete package for electronics design and fabrication Read Article
Enclosures for Flex, Rigid-flex, and Multiboard Designs How to Use ECAD/MCAD Co-design for Your PCB Enclosure and Board Layout Printed circuit boards are fun to design and lay out, but a PCB will need an enclosure to hold it mechanically stable. PCB enclosures can be purchased off-the-shelf or they can be custom-designed in MCAD tools. No matter which route you take to create your enclosure, you’ll need to import your PCB layout into MCAD tools to ensure your board and components will not interfere with the enclosure. When you’re working with a complex layout, multiboard Read Article
How to Prepare Your Project for PCB Cart Manufacturing with Altium Designer How to Prepare Your Project for PCB Cart Manufacturing with Altium Designer The electronics industry is massive and there are plenty of PCB manufacturers to choose from for your next order. When you need to prepare your next board for fabrication and assembly, how can you quickly generate deliverables for manufacturers like PCB Cart? Instead of generating all manufacturing documentation manually, designers need an easy way to create deliverables for fabrication and assembly. If you plan to work with PCB Cart to produce Read Article
The Best High Voltage PCB Design Software Package The Best High Voltage PCB Design Software Package Of all the different boards a designer can create, a high voltage PCB design can be complicated and requires strict attention to safety. If not laid out correctly these boards can be safety hazards or can fail to function on first power up, leaving a designer with wasted time and effort. In the best case, the board will function reliably for a long period of time thanks to correct layout practices. When you’re planning your next high voltage PCB Read Article
Stay Productive When You Switch to Altium Designer Upgrade from AutoCAD PCB Design Software to Altium Designer's Unified Environment Most designers are familiar with AutoCAD electrical PCB design software for mechanical or construction drafting, and for making important engineering diagrams. AutoCAD PCB design is great for many tasks involved in electrical or mechanical engineering, but PCB designers need more than mechanical drafting tools to make advanced electronics. To get your designs to the next level, you need the best set of ECAD tools on the market, rather than using Read Article
PCB power plane current density How to Calculate PCB Power Plane Current Capacity Do you know how much current your power plane can accommodate? Learn more about PCB power plane current capacity in this article. Read Article
media independent interface ethernet links Decoding Media Independent Interface (MII) in Ethernet Links Learn about media independent interface variants for routing Ethernet links, including gigabit variants for 1 GbE and faster links. Read Article
Fostering Innovation in a Post-Covid World Fostering Innovation in a Post-Covid World What’s in your soft skill toolbox? Eli Hughes is a true full-stack hardware engineer and a co-founder of Tzero Brew. He joins the OnTrack podcast to share his insights on how to foster innovation, manage upstream failure, build trust with your fellow engineers and stakeholders, and develop your soft skills—and other non-technical skills we use to communicate with each other and solve problems effectively. Listen to the Podcast: Download this Read Article
Best DC Laboratory Bench Power Supplies of 2021 Best DC Laboratory Bench Power Supplies of 2021 A guide to workbench power supplies, related requirements, technological tradeoffs, and recommended brands and models. Read Article
Design Your Small Circuit Board in Altium Designer Design Your Small Circuit Board in Altium Designer Large circuit boards, small circuit boards, and anything in between might seem like they need separate sets of PCB layout features. In reality, your PCB design software shouldn’t delineate your PCB design based on size. Whether you need to design a large or small circuit board, a design application with high-quality CAD tools will help you get the job done quickly and prepare your board for production. Small circuit board designs are much easier Read Article
Working Through Circuit Simulation Free Often Won’t Work, Try Altium Designer Working Through Circuit Simulation for Free Often Won’t Work, Try Altium Designer Electronic Design Automation (EDA) software provides the tools that support the design and analysis of electronic devices, systems, and printed circuit boards. Within this broad definition of EDA software, some companies offer free PCB design programs while others focus on schematic capture, mixed-signal simulation, Very Large-Scale Integration (VLSI) circuit design, and customizable design rule checking. While many EDA software applications Read Article
photodiode circuit Photodiode Circuit Simulation and Design for Your PCB Your design tools should give you an easy way to create circuit diagrams, simulate electrical behavior, and start a new PCB layout. A photodiode circuit is important in many applications, ranging from simple ON/OFF light detection to receiving digital data in an optical fiber. These semiconductor devices are similar to a regular diode, but they can be difficult to simulate without the right component models and circuit design tools. With Altium Read Article