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Plated Through-Hole Vias in mmWave PCBs
Plated through-hole vias in mmWave PCBs can ruin signal integrity in your RF interconnects if not implemented properly. Learn how to size and place stitching vias in this article.
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Automated PCB Routing With the Situs Topological Autorouter
This page looks at the Situs Topological Autorouter. This part of the PCB Editor uses topological mapping to define the PCB routing path and convert this to a high-quality route.
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How Non-functional Pads Affect Your PCB Design
Non-functional pads are sometimes framed as an all-or-nothing debate, and the debates about reliability and effects on signal integrity abound. Should you keep them on your vias, or should you remove them from all vias? Like any design decision there are tradeoffs to balance, and typically one aspect of a design will take precedence over all others. Because there is no generalized rule about the use of non-functional pads, designers should
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How to Select Copper Foil for High-Frequency PCB Design
Learn how to choose the right kind of copper foil for your high frequency PCB stackup. The same ideas apply to selection of copper for high-speed PCBs.
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Why Most Via Impedance Calculators Are Inaccurate
Via impedance calculators are only useful in the low frequency range, where impedance control is typically not needed.
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Overview of the PCIe 6.0 Standard
In this article, we give an overview of changes in the PCIe 6.0 standard as it has been currently published by PCI-SIG.
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Is There an SPI Trace Impedance Requirement?
There is no SPI trace impedance requirement or termination requirement. If this sounds surprising, read this article to see why.
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The Skin Effect, Current Density, and the Electromagnetic Field
Do you know how the skin effect alters the electric and magnetic field around a transmission line? We’ll address an important misconception in this article.
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Should You Place Teardrops on Differential Pairs?
We’ll look at an interesting question from an OnTrack podcast guest about teardrops on differential pairs. Will they create signal integrity problems?
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PCIe Routing with AC Coupling Capacitors
AC coupling capacitors remove DC offset so that high speed PCIe lanes can operate properly. Learn more about PCIe AC coupling capacitor selection and placement.
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The Best PCB Design Software Downloads
There are many PCB design software packages available for download or purchase. Newer designers and startups who are just starting out will likely build up their skills from a free software program just to get to a proof of concept and initial design of a prototype. Once a design has been proven and it is time to design for a real product, a new designer or startup startup company will need to make the switch over to a paid software package. To
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A Brief Study of Stubs on a PCIe Connector
Stubs are an important topic in high-speed PCB design, and there is a longstanding guideline that stubs should always be removed from all vias on high-speed digital interconnects. While stubs are bad for high-speed lines, they do not always need to be removed. What is more important is to predict the loss profile and frequencies, and to floorplan appropriately to try and prevent such losses. In this article, I’ll look at some simulation results
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How to Start an FPGA PCB Layout For Your Embedded System
FPGAs are key elements that aid innovation in advanced embedded systems where ready-made SoCs may not be available. See why you should use an FPGA in your embedded system.
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Addressing Skew Sources in High Speed PCBs
Sometimes, when we talk about skew, we aren't as specific as we should be. Most discussions of skew and jitter deal with the type of skew incurred during routing, namely due to length mismatches in differential pairs and fiber weave-induced skew. In fact, there are many different sources of skew that contribute to total jitter on an interconnect, and it's important to quantify these in serial and parallel buses that require precise timing control
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Pin-Package Delay and Via Delay in High Speed Length Tuning
Take a look at the inside of some integrated circuit packages, and you’ll find a number of wires bonded to the semiconductor die and the pads at the edge of the component's package. As a signal traverses makes its way along an interconnect and into a destination circuit, signals need to travel across these bond wires and pads before they are interpreted as a logic state. As you look around the edge of an IC, these bond wires can have different
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How to Successfully Design With a BGA
What's the first step in designing with a high pin count BGA in your PCB? You'll start with floorplanning, fanout, and layer assignment to aid routing.
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Properties Panel Routing
Routing is one of the most time-consuming stages of PCB design. Altium Designer has a large set of tools that allow you to do it as accurately and quickly as possible. This document will help you to learn how to manage your routing effectively and use it to its fullest extent. The basis of PCB topology development in Altium Designer. By offering powerful routing tools, the system provides comprehensive settings. All groups of settings are
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