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Common Signal Integrity Pitfalls with Hans Klos

Common Signal Integrity Pitfalls with Hans Klos Join us as Hans and Judy discuss the HyperLynx Connector tool, their upcoming webinar collaboration, and common signal integrity pitfalls. Read Article

3D Printing PCBs

3D Printing PCBs and Generating Printing Models Altium Designer® offers a fully integrated environment for generating instructions for 3D printing PCBs. Use the MCAD/ECAD collaboration tools in Altium Designer for PCB design and integration with mechanical design tools. Read Article

Save Money and Keep PCB Costs Down with Consistent Documentation Tools

Save Money and Keep PCB Pricing Down with Consistent Documentation Tools Calculating PCB costs requires professional PCB drawing tools with mechanical and electrical standards incorporated intelligently for aggressive pricing. But how to reduce PCB cost? ALTIUM DESIGNER PCB design tools are capable of tracking costs and keeping production expenditures within the budget. Produce low-cost instructions with elegant drill files Calculating printed circuit board fabrication and assembly costs requires knowledge of the Read Article

When Should You Use a Flex Circuit?

When Should You Use Flexible Printed Circuit Cables? The two predominant reasons for using flex or rigid flex, are to solve a packaging issue or reduce the space and weight of the electronics package. These two are often interrelated and space, weight and packaging, (SWaP) will continue to be a driving force in PCB design. Read Article

How to Use Thermocouples in Your Next Project

How to Use Thermocouples in Your Next Project Thermocouples are the final sensor type in a series where we look at all the main types of temperature sensors you might use in an electronics project. In this series, we have looked at the various ways to implement different temperature sensors in your project. At the end of the series, we’ll be putting the sensors and implementations in a head to head competition using real-world conditions. Through this real-world testing, will gain a better Read Article

learn pcb design online

Where You Can Learn PCB Design Online If you’ve wanted to learn more about PCB designing and how to use CAD tools, it can be difficult to find comprehensive resources online. Now with Upverter Education, you can access a comprehensive set of courses alongside browser-based design tools. Upverter Education can help you how to learn PCB design online. Read Article

Include IC Pin Numbers in Your Altium Designer Parts Data

Include IC Pin Numbers in Your Altium Designer Parts Data When you create components, you’ll really be creating 3 different CAD models: a schematic symbol, PCB footprint, and 3D model. Integrated circuits need multiple pieces of information, including courtyards, IC pin numbers, designators, and electrical simulation models to be most effective in your PCB design and analysis tools. If you’re working with most CAD tools, you won’t have the features you need to perform all of these tasks. Enter Altium Read Article

Quickly Replicate Circuits with a Connection Room in Your PCB Layout

Quickly Replicate Circuits with a Connection Room in Your PCB Layout Modern PCB designs can get very complex, and designers need tools to help them stay organized. Schematic sheets are a great start, but simply organizing different circuit blocks into different schematics is not enough to ensure your designs are organized. Altium Designer unifies your schematic design and PCB layout tasks into a single program, and it includes a PCB connection rooms feature to keep your circuit blocks synchronized. Here’s how you Read Article

SnapEDA Google for Electronic Components with Natasha Baker

SnapEDA Google for Electronic Components with Natasha Baker Natasha joins us to discuss the origin of SnapEDA, its free automated part builder, Instabuild, and what transparency means to engineering. Read Article

Sharing Inside and Outside Your Altium 365 Workspace

Sharing Inside and Outside Your Altium 365 Workspace Forget about sending emails with design data. You can use sharing in Altium 365 to give anyone access to your PCB projects within a web browser. Read Article

2020 Holiday Gift Ideas for Your Favorite Engineer

2020 Holiday Gift Ideas for An Engineer Check out our list of the best holiday gifts for engineers in 2020. Read Article

DDR5—What’s New On The Memory Horizon

DDR5 Speeds—What’s New On The Memory Horizon Earlier this year, I wrote an article on the various iterations of double data rate (DDR) memory and, specifically, the differences between DDR3 and DDR4. Following the introduction of the first DDR memory back in 1998, successive iterations of DDR have been delivered to the market always to improve two key features: data bandwidth and data speed. DDR5 is now on the horizon, and it offers significant benefits over the previous version, DDR4. This Read Article

2x thru de-embedding test fixtures

How 2x Thru De-embedding is Used in Interconnect Characterization 2x thru de-embedding is one of many important tasks in high bandwidth interconnect characterization as part of test and measurement. Read Article

The Key Aspects Of PCB Documentation

The Key Aspects Of PCB Specification Documentation In all of our classes and consulting activities as well as the numerous articles we create, we always stress the importance of PCB documentation. Along with the PCB Fabrication Specification, this documentation is crucial to ensuring that a PCB is built right the first time and every time thereafter. Because the creation of this documentation occurs later during the design process, this step is given short shrift and/or not enough attention. When Read Article

PCB 3D Design Software Helps You Build Advanced Products

PCB 3D Circuit Design Software Helps You Build Advanced Products New products are intimately designed to fit their enclosures, and getting the design right takes the right set of PCB design tools. When you can see your entire board, you can spot layout errors and component collisions and make sure your new circuit board will fit inside its enclosure easily. Now you can design and evaluate all aspects of your circuit board layout when you use the native MCAD tools in Altium Designer’s complete PCB design Read Article

planar transformer PCB layout

How to Create a Planar Transformer PCB Design A planar transformer design in a PCB layout takes up less space than a comparable through-hole transformer. Here’s how you can design and place a planar transformer. Read Article

PCIe 5.0 signal integrity NVMe card

PCIe 5.0 Signal Integrity and Analysis PCIe 5.0 signal integrity follows many trends from other high speed signaling standards. Learn more about this high speed signaling standard in this article. Read Article