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NTC Thermistors as Temperature Sensors

NTC PCB Thermistors as Temperature Sensors So what is an NTC thermistor? NTC thermistors are the most commonly used class of sensor as they are cheap, easy to use, and accurate enough for most applications. Read on to learn more about NTC and other temperature sensors. Read Article

PFC Circuit Design and Layout for Power Systems

PFC Circuit Design and Layout for Power Systems Much as we would like, the power input into a PCB is not always a clean DC or sinusoidal signal. DC coming from a rectifier will have some ripple from the output capacitor, and AC signals can contain noise or be less-than-perfect sine waves. There are some ways to correct these problems, either by choosing the right filtration circuit or by shaping the input wave to produce maximum power output to a load in the system. If you’re working with an Read Article

Grooming the Next Generation of Electronic Designers

Grooming the Next Generation of Electronic Designers Learn about Altium's commitment to advancing electronic design when it comes to the next generation! Read Article

Eli Hughes on Becoming a Full Stack Hardware Engineer

Eli Hughes on Becoming a Full Stack Hardware Engineer Robotics, undersea vehicles, space science, and Electrical Engineering instructor... Eli Hughes has led an interesting career. Now an acoustics guru and co-founder of Tzero, he joins OnTrack to discuss guitar pedals, the secret of overcoming imposter syndrome, and his company’s surprising approach to beer fermentation monitoring. Read Article

CAN-Bus: The Protocol

CAN-Bus: The Protocol and Tutorial Read part 2 of the CAN bus series to understand the high-level layers of CAN bus and what makes the bitstream unique. Read Article

A Power Integrity Tutorial

A Power Integrity Primer Take a look at our power integrity tutorial to better understand PDN design for low noise and and stable power to components. Read Article

CAN-Bus: Introduction and History

CAN-Bus: Introduction and History Take a look at our controller area network bus introduction. You'll learn about the history of CAN buses, their purpose, and how they were created. Read Article

Temperature Sensor Project: Intro

Temperature Sensor Project: Intro In this project we will build a range of PCBs which will cover all the temperature sensor types and circuits to implement them. Read Article

Why You Should Stop Hanging on to Legacy Design Rules

Why You Should Stop Hanging on to Legacy Design Rules How to avoid problematic ‘legacy design rules’ that no longer apply to today’s technology. Watch and learn in this OnTrack episode with Eric Bogatin. Read Article

World-Class Electrical Engineering Courses with Rolf Ostergaard

World-Class Electrical Engineering Courses with Rolf Ostergaard Denmark also has a robust tech industry. On several occasions, Speeding Edge partnered with Rolf Ostergaard, founder and owner of EE-Training, to present our two and three-day training courses in Copenhagen and Aarhus, Denmark as well as in Stockholm and Malmo, Sweden and Oslo, Norway. Read Article

12 Ideas for Implementing NFC in Your Design

12 Ideas for Implementing NFC in Your Design Read to learn about many possibilities for NFC; some of these project ideas are taken from commercially available products or research papers; others are ideas from working through reading the NFC standard. Read Article

buck converter simulation

Buck Converter Simulation in Altium Designer Are you designing a step-down switching power supply? It helps to perform a buck converter simulation during circuit design. Altium Designer makes it easy to perform a buck converter simulation directly from your schematic. Read Article

Modeling Capacitor Impedance Vs. Frequency Using an Excel Spreadsheet

Modeling Capacitor Impedance Vs. Frequency Using an Excel Spreadsheet As noted in an earlier article, based on class notes from our two-day design course, getting the power subsystem design correct is the most challenging aspect of today’s high-speed PCB design process. A major aspect of this process is modeling the power supply to ensure that it will function properly in the end product. A critical part of this modeling effort focuses on being able to model capacitor impedance vs frequency. This is simple enough Read Article

Low Noise, Low EMI Power Distribution

Low Noise, Low EMI Power Distribution This board has several loads on it, but it is purely a distribution board with no regulation. The main loads are the hefty 5V Tilta nano focus motor, 5V SDI to HDMI converter, 5V Tilta follows focus control, and the battery voltage powered monitor. Out of these, only the SDI to HDMI convert needs remotely clean power. The motor, however, is very electrically noisy, so it needs good isolation. Read Article

Chip for the most powerful quantum computer 2020

Honeywell Claims the Most Powerful Analog Quantum Computer of 2020 Quantum computing is about more than qubit count. See why Honeywell claims to have the most powerful quantum computer of 2020. Read Article

Component Library Structure

Component Library Structure Learn the roles, permissions, component revisions, and lifecycles of our Component Library. It's essential to have them in place now rather than later because it's difficult to change them once you begin to actually start with coponents! Read Article

DDR3 vs. DDR4 — Lots Of Memory At Very High Speed

DDR3 vs. DDR4 — Lots Of Memory At Very High Speed When it comes to memory capacity and how it’s incorporated into the present day and next-generation design, much like every other aspect of high-speed design, it’s all about accessing large amounts of data at very high speeds. The evolution of double data rate (DDR) memory has been pretty dynamic over the years. The original DDR was first introduced in 1998 followed by DDR2 in 2003, DDR3 in 2007, DDR4 in 2014, and DDR5, which has an estimated Read Article