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How the Gibbs Phenomenon Produces Measurement Artifacts
The Gibbs phenomenon is a measurement artifact that can be mistaken for real signal integrity problems like ground bounce, ringing from reflections, or resonance on short lines.
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Impedance Control: How to Specify Your Requirements for PCB Manufacturers
PCB manufacturing houses can easily accommodate impedance control requirements as long as you can specify requirements clearly. Here’s what to tell your fabricator.
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What is PCB Routing?
Learn about PCB routing techniques and how to design traces to proper routing in any device. You can access the best PCB routing features in Altium Designer.
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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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Should You Route Signals in Your PCB Power Plane?
Before you cut up your PCB power plane with signals, pay attention to things like impedance control power plane current capacity to ensure reliability.
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Upgrade from AutoCAD PCB Design Software to Altium Designer's Unified Environment
Most designers are familiar with AutoCAD electrical PCB design software for mechanical or construction drafting, and for making important engineering diagrams. AutoCAD PCB design is great for many tasks involved in electrical or mechanical engineering, but PCB designers need more than mechanical drafting tools to make advanced electronics. To get your designs to the next level, you need the best set of ECAD tools on the market, rather than using
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Antipad Diameter, Crosstalk, and IBM’s Results from IPC APEX EXPO 2021
Interlayer crosstalk begins with antipad diameters, and IBM’s results help us see how antipad diameter on back-drilled PTHs affect signal integrity.
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Serial Communications Protocols Part Six - I2C
In this next installment in our series on serial communications protocols , we’re looking at the popular I 2 C protocol. This follows on from the preceding articles where we are looking at some of the different types of Serial Communication Protocols available. These provide a practical solution to the transfer of data between devices over reasonably short distances. Typical applications include the capture of large amounts of data from data
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Serial Communications Protocols Part 5 - SPI Standard
In this next article in our series that is looking at different types of Serial Communication Protocols , we will be looking at the popular SPI protocols. This is one of many popular protocols in common usage that we will be looking at. We will provide a useful summary of each type’s advantages and disadvantages at the end of this series. SPI stands for Serial Peripheral Interface. It is a serial communication bus commonly used for short-distance
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Designing 5G PCB Devices
The next stage in the evolution of mobile telephony is here with the roll-out of 5G. The designer looking to incorporate functionality to handle 5G signals into their circuits will face some challenging issues. So, what’s so special about 5G? The main change in the jump from 4G to 5G is the frequency band at which signals are transmitted. For 4G, this band covered 0.7 GHz up to 2.5 GHz. For 5G, this new band is an order of magnitude larger, with
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The Digital Engineer's Guide to RF PCB Design Guidelines: Layout and Routing
Read our guide to learn some of the best RF PCB design guidelines for layout and routing. We’ll also look at how simulation tools can help you evaluate your RF PCB layout.
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Serial Communications Protocols - Part Four: RS-485 and Baud Rates
In Part 4 of a series of articles about some of the popular Serial Communication Protocols, we explore the popular RS-485 protocol standard.
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All About Your PCB Trace Length: How Long is Too Long?
Learn more about PCB trace length and how transmission line losses mount in your designs.
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Design by Finding RF Interference Analysis with Altium
Radio frequency interference analysis is one important task in high frequency and high-speed PCB design. Interference at radio frequencies can arise due to many simple design errors, but these problems can be easy to spot with the right PCB design tools. When you need to identify areas of a design that can create RFI problems, an automated rules-driven toolset can help. If you’re unclear on what RFI is or how you can spot areas in a design that
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How to Design and Route Your RF Filter PCB Layout
RF PCBs and mixed-signal systems are challenging for many designers. Careful attention must be paid to the PCB stackup design, process for designing transmission lines, placement of components, and floorplanning the PCB layout to ensure predictable return path. Many RF PCB layout designs will include printed elements, like an RF filter, antenna, isolation structures, and unique waveguide geometries. RF systems can make copious use of RF filters
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How to Make Copper-Clad Boards With the Best PCB Layout Software
Some designers prefer to build their own prototypes in their home or company lab as it gives them a firsthand view of potential quality problems in their boards. While designers can go this route if they’re comfortable using etchants and cleaning solutions needed to remove copper from PCB laminates, they’ll need design tools to create their etching stencils. An at-home designer will need to procure PCB copper boards to use for etching and create
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Designing Coplanar Waveguide with Ground in Your PCB
RF designs that run at high frequency need high isolation from digital components, power subsystems, and external sources of noise that can degrade signal quality. One option in many RF designs is coplanar waveguide with ground as this can be used with controlled impedance routing on external layers. When you need to use coplanar waveguide with ground routing in your RF PCB designs, use the industry’s best set of routing features. Only Altium
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