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Cellular internet of things design and devices

Using Cellular Modules for Internet of Things Devices and Design Cellular internet of things products are widely accessible and easy to design thanks to standard cellular modem modules and transceiver components. Read Article

Tips for Managing the Hardware Development Cycle

Tips for Managing the Hardware Development Life Cycle Your PCB design team needs to stay productive. Here’s how you can control the hardware development cycle when working remotely. Read Article

Determining the Parasitic Inductance of a DC to DC Converter

Determining the Parasitic Inductance of a DC to DC Converter Unwanted parasitic inductance from capacitors and transformer leakage inductance in DC/DC converters cause power instability in digital systems. Here's how you can determine parasitic inductance in your power system. Read Article

Value chain management for PCB design

Making Value Chain Management Work for Electronics Exploring and tracking projects as part of value chain management is possible with the right set of managed design data tools in the cloud. Read Article

I2C vs SPI vs UART for LCD screen

UART vs. SPI vs. I2C: Routing & Layout Guidelines If you’ve never worked with an MCU and programmable ICs, here are some routing and layout guidelines on I2C vs. SPI vs. UART. Read Article

PCB conformal coating types on a bare board

PCB Conformal Coating Types: Which is Best for Your New Board? There are many PCB conformal coating types that can be used to protect your board from excess moisture and corrosion. Read Article

Coming Soon: Altium CircuitMaker Pro®

Coming Soon: Altium CircuitMaker Pro® In 2015, Altium released Altium CircuitStudio® to best meet the needs of casual users, hobbyists, students, and PCB design aficionados on a budget. Learn about the new version coming to the public! Read Article

Temperature Sensor Project: Resistance Temperature Detectors (RTD)

Temperature Sensor Project: Resistance Temperature Detectors (RTD) In this part of the series, we’re looking at Resistance Temperature Detectors (RTD), which are among the most accurate temperature measuring elements we have easy access to. Read Article

The Basics of Signal Integrity Analysis in Your PCB

The Basics of Signal Integrity Analysis and Simulation in PCB Design Read and learn the important steps in signal integrity analysis and how these steps reveal problems in your PCB layout. Read Article

Automated Mirroring Between Concord Pro and Your Git Server

Automated Mirroring Between Concord Pro and Your Git Server You can create a Git server mirror of your Altium Concord Pro server. This gives you a simple way to create a backup for projects from an on-premises Concord Pro instance. Read Article

Using Altium Designer for the Cellular Industrial IoT

Using Altium Designer for the Cellular Industrial IoT Industrial IoT can benefit hugely from cellular connectivity, and new cellular IoT hardware solutions are making it easy for innovators to build new products. Read Article

Just How Constant Is the Dielectric Constant of PCB Materials?

Just How Constant Is the Dielectric Constant of PCB Materials? One of the crucial material factors that we address in our classes is the dielectric constant or relative dielectric constant, e r. This is sometimes called Dk by laminate suppliers. Sometimes, product developers are not clear as to the role the dielectric constant of PCB materials plays in a design, how to measure it, how to account for it, how it varies with frequency, and how to know if the dielectric constant data provided by the laminate Read Article

Temperature Sensors: Positive Temperature Coefficient (PTC) Thermistors

Temperature Sensors: Positive Temperature Coefficient (PTC) Thermistors This is part 3 of our project to test every type of temperature sensor with all the standard implementations/topologies. If you want to add a temperature sensor to your project, this series has you covered with all the options covering the full range of precision and cost. At the end of the series we’ll be building a pair of host boards for all the sensor cards we have developed which will allow us to test, compare and contrast the different Read Article

An Introduction to Wheatstone Bridges

An Introduction to Wheatstone Bridge Circuits and Differential Amplifiers A Wheatstone bridge circuit is a simple device for accurately measuring resistance. In this project, Mark Harris shows how to work with these circuits. Read Article

Navigating PCB Footprint Landmines

Navigating PCB Footprint Landmines Altium Concord Pro™ as a standalone product and brand name has been discontinued and the capabilities are now available as part of our Altium enterprise solutions. Learn more here. Introduction “How did this happen?” was the question that everyone was asking. We had just got back from the Assembly House, a new PCBA, and I knew by the adverse reaction that something had gone wrong. I know for most reading this, this scenario doesn’t happen to you Read Article

Power Integrity for EDA Tools

Heidi Barnes, Senior Application Engineer and Power Integrity Product Owner Heidi Barnes is an anomaly in the PCB design world—a long-time, senior-level woman, and hardware engineer, whose career has been steeped in a wide variety of experiences with numerous technologies. Within the industry, she is widely recognized for her knowledge and expertise. Heidi holds five patents, was awarded the NASA Silver Snoopy for her work on hydrogen fire and gas detection, she is the author of over 20 papers on signal integrity and Read Article

Oscilloscope Basics: A Beginner's Guide

Oscilloscope Basics: A Beginner's Guide Wondering how to use an oscilloscope? Read this guide from Mark Harris to learn more about some oscilloscope basics for new electronics engineers. Read Article