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VNA measurements

What VNA Measurements Can Teach You About Your PCB Substrate Your VNA measurements reflect important properties about your PCB substrate material. Here’s how substrate material properties appear in your VNA measurements. Read Article

Graphene electronics applications

Graphene Electronics Might Power Your Next Circuit Board It’s time to ditch the battery, your next PCB might be powered by graphene electronics. Read Article

Adding Arduino Boards to Your Integrated Components Libraries

Adding Arduino Boards to Your Integrated Components Libraries An Arduino board is a great way to include standard functionality in your next PCB. If you want to use an Arduino board in your PCB design software, you’ll need to include Arduino boards as part of your component libraries. This allows you to incorporate Arduino boards into your electronics schematics, layouts, and bills of materials. You can use Arduino boards as the backbone for your next product, or as part of a larger multi-board system Read Article

Protel PCB Design Software has Rebranded to Altium Designer

Protel PCB Design Software Rebrands to Altium Designer Protel PCB isn’t gone, it has been rebranded and enhanced as Altium Designer. ALTIUM DESIGNER The most powerful, modern, and easy-to-use PCB design tool for professional use. You don’t have to look very hard to find software such as Protel PCB design software or Diptrace still in use. Since the mid-1980s, Protel has been used for PCB design in companies all over the world as well as in universities for teaching circuit design and in homes for the Read Article

PCB layout microstrip to waveguide transition

How to Design a Microstrip to PCB Waveguide Transition Here’s how you can design a microstrip to waveguide transition for your RF PCB layout. Read Article

Backplane design

High Speed Backplane Design and PCB Layout Tips Here’s how you can design a microstrip to waveguide transition for your RF PCB layout. Read Article

How to Choose the Best PCB Manufacturer for Your Project

How to Choose the Best PCB Manufacturer for Your Project Here’s how you can find and qualify the best PCB manufacturer for your new product. Read Article

How Antipads Affect Signal Integrity in Your Multilayer PCB

How Antipads Affect Signal Integrity in Your Multilayer PCB Antipads in your PCB can create a signal integrity problem if not used properly. Here are some guidelines to help you get started. Read Article

How to Involve Customers in PCB Product Development

How to Involve Customers in PCB Product Development Follow our guide to learn how to involve customers in your PCB product development process. Read Article

PCB design for DDR5 vs DDR6

DDR5 vs. DDR6: Here's What to Expect in RAM Modules What can designers expect in DDR5 vs DDR6 RAM? Here’s what you can expect for your next memory device. Read Article

Five Issues Your Assemblers Want You to Avoid

Five Issues Your PCB Assemblers Want You to Avoid Learn the five tentpole problems your manufacturers have to deal with, and how avoiding these simple issues will speed your projects through assembly. Read Article

Altium Designer keyboard shortcuts

My Favorite Altium Designer Keyboard Shortcuts and Viewing Features If you want to be more productive in PCB design and layout, try out these common Altium Designer keyboard shortcuts. Read Article

PCB Prototype Board Layout Software

PCB Prototype Board Layout Software That Helps You Scale Your PCB design software package includes the tools found in simpler prototype board software. Learn more about these software packages here. Read Article

LM358 op-amp circuit PCB layout

Layout for an LM358 Op-amp PCB Circuits and Modules LM358 op-amp circuits are simple, yet they are still useful for low frequency analog applications. Here’s one example of a PCB layout you can create in Altium Designer. Read Article

PCB manufacturing quality control

Managing PCB Manufacturing Quality Control in the Cloud You and your manufacturer can track quality problems and correct at the design level when you use cloud tools for PCB manufacturing quality control. Read Article

California electric cars

California Bets on Electric Cars and Plans to Ban Gasoline Car Sales by 2035 Governor Gavin Newsome is betting on California electric cars. Get ready for a big shift in PMIC and battery markets. Read Article

LLC Resonant Converter Design

LLC Resonant Converter Design and PCB Layout You can use an LLC resonant converter design to provide stable DC power in your circuits. Here’s how to layout your LLC converter design. Read Article