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Structuring Your Design Data Management to Avoid Design Missteps When it comes to PCB design, one very important aspect of the overall process is proper data management and documentation. While the immediate consequences may not be as apparent, mismanagement of your data can have both a direct and indirect effect on your project and design. Proper implementation of data management and documentation ensures the organization, traceability, accountability and reproducibility of your design data. Read on to learn Read Article

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Optimize Software Development for Cars with Standalone Debugging Tools Expensive to license software development toolsets can cause bottlenecks in your company’s software development process. Standalone debuggers will help distribute the workload for faster, less expensive, development. When I bought my last car, the salesman upsold me on the newer model with heated seats. Well, in the heat of the moment I had forgotten that I live in California. I ended up paying a lot more for a car with heated seats that I only Read Article

How Cutting Edge PCB Design Has Enabled the Nest Thermostat to Transform Homes Not exactly the most thrilling thing in the world. Growing up in the northeast, the thermostat was always a point of contention in my household. It was never set high enough - only 60 degrees in the middle of January! My parents, being the practical people they are, wanted to save energy. If everyone is out at school or work all day, then there’s no point having the heat on full blast. “Besides, you can just put on more layers” they would always Read Article

Why You Should Take a Modular Approach to PCB Design for Internet of Things Applications As engineers, one of our worst nightmares is doing the same pointless thing over and over again. Adopting a modular design philosophy for Internet of Things PCBs will save you from that monotony. Optimize your design process and save time, money, and sanity, by reusing your PCB designs. Read on to find out more! While in college I did several projects with Arduino boards. I started with the basic Arduino Uno, but later bought several different Read Article

Flexible PCBs and the Internet of Things: How the Landscape of PCB Design is Rapidly Changing The Internet of Things is a new category of exciting gadgets and appliances transforming the consumer market. However, developing that smartwatch isn’t as easy as putting it on. PCB designers are encountering unique challenges when developing powerful hardware solutions for these products. These PCB’s have to pack performance into a small space while preserving reliability and product budget. Thankfully, recent improvements to an oft-overlooked Read Article

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Which Altium PCB Design Software is Right For You? Confused as to which Altium professional PCB design product is right for you? Are you a just looking to dip a toe with CircuitMaker®? Are you a professional PCB just starting out or are you a full blown Printed Board design maestro who needs all the flexible horsepower that Altium Designer® offers? Find out what Altium software is right for you. Our CMO, Ted Pawela, recently did a live interview with the folks over at Adafruit. One of the Read Article

The Best PCB Design and Manufacturing Practices for Moisture Management A source of PCB malfunctions, especially in outdoor environments, comes from moisture on the boards. Fortunately, there are several options for protecting your boards when they are deployed. Read on to learn which is best for your application. I once had an outdoor sensor system with a custom PCB protective coating that would stop recording data for two hours at dawn every day. This was not because the board needed its beauty rest before it went Read Article

How to Design High-Density PCBs With Buried and Blind Vias The modern is always being pushed to go smaller and cheaper. Blind and buried vias can help you save space and money on your high density PCB layout (HDI). Blind and buried vias help reduce outer layer usage, leaving more room for SMTs and BGA breakout channels. Read on to find out more! Moore’s Law predicts that the number of transistors in integrated circuits (ICs) will double approximately every two years. This law has held true since 1965 Read Article

Why You Need Integrated Circuit Simulation Integrated Simulation: integrated simulator, or simulating ICs? You aren’t a newbie anymore but here’s why we say keep the integrated simulator in your toolkit. As your career progresses, you become more confident. You’ll tend to collect circuits you know work well in different designs - power supplies, filters, oscillators, etc. Most of the time these reusable blocks will work great in any place you choose to use them, but using simulation can Read Article

When to Use PCB Thermal Pads or Paste for Thermal Management Design It’s rare that one will offhandedly know which thermal interface material will work the best for their PCB thermal pad. This article weighs the advantages and disadvantages of thermal pads vs. pastes with these helpful guidelines. Read on to find out more! I used to live in Alabama, which I casually referred to as Hell in the summertime. Lots of heat, lots of humidity, lots of sweat. I am thankful, though, that I don’t have to experience the heat Read Article

High-Speed PCB Design Principles: Keep Traces Short and Direct Your signals travel at the speed of light, and so does their EMI. As you know, high-speed PCB design can often have issues with EMI. This EMI risk can come from long traces that form transmitting or receiving antennas. Longer traces also cover more distance, which increases the chances that sensitive circuits are affected along the way. Using short traces that take direct paths will help reduce EMI risk from both antennas and trace proximity. I Read Article

ASPICE Auto Software Developer Certification and What it Means to You Software developer certification is necessary to guarantee functional safety and quality software products in the automotive industry. The ASPICE auto software developer certifications tell customers if a developer’s products work to specification, if the developer is able to provide support for its products, and how efficiently the developer operates. In college, a few friends and I got our first taste of embedded systems programming during our Read Article

High-Speed PCB Differential Pair Routing to Preserve Signal Integrity Proper routing of differential pairs in high-speed digital circuits is necessary for preserving signal integrity. Follow these differential pair routing guidelines and leave your EMI troubles behind. I once went on a blind date with a woman who, unbeknownst to me, was always late. I got to the restaurant right on time and waited for 20 minutes before I figured I had been stood up. As I was about to leave, my date arrived. If she’d been 5 minutes Read Article