Podcasts

Browse and listen from our library of podcasts discussing pcb design, manufacturing, assembly, and more. You can also check out the latest podcast from OnTrack with Zachariah Peterson

OnTrack Podcast with Judy Warner

The Exciting Path to Mechatronics Engineering

The Exciting Path to Mechatronics Engineering Fergus Downey, Ph.D. student and research assistant at Curtin University in Western Australia (WA), is joining us in this episode and sharing his journey to becoming a Mechatronic Engineer. This will be a fun episode! Fergus will discuss his involvement with the Binar Space Program and give us an overview of CubeSat Read Article

3D Printing Circuit Boards for Fast Prototyping

3D Printed Circuit Boards for Fast Prototyping Sean Patterson joins us to share the technology behind DragonFly IV®, the multi-material 3D printer for electronics fabrication. He will walk us through its current capabilities, and how it can bring your electronic prototypes to the next level. Watch this episode or listen on the go. Read Article

Mastering Your PCB Design Tool as the Industry Evolves

Mastering Your PCB Design Tool as the Industry Evolves with Stephen Chavez This is a not-to-be-missed episode with a very respected electrical engineer, Stephen Chavez! Stephen encourages and motivates PCB designers like you to keep learning and succeed in the electronics industry. Read Article

Troubleshooting EMC Immunity Issues

Troubleshooting EMC Immunity: How to Identify and Resolve EMC Problems Most PCB Designers wear many hats, and one of them is to solve EMC problems. How can you acquire this skill that is not offered in the university? Watch now or listen on the go! Read Article

Taking Simulation to a New Dimension

Taking Simulation to a New Dimension Tarun and Keshav Amla from Avishtech join us in this OnTrack episode to discuss about PCB stackup simulation. Read Article

Four Commonly Held Myths of EMC Design

Four Commonly Held Myths of EMC Design “Don't gap your ground plane, there's never really a good reason to do that.” Dr. Hubing our guest for today is an EMC expert with 30 years of experience in the industry. Watch this episode or listen on the go now. Read Article

EMC on the Board and Off the Board

EMC on the Board and Off the Board We are very delighted to have Min Zhang in this episode. Min is an independent EMC consultant based in the UK. Today, we'll be talking about EMC, both on board and off the board. It will be a very interesting discussion because we will look a little bit deeper at the system level. Read Article

Mitigating Risk Factors for PCB Manufacturing Lead Times

Mitigating Risk Factors for PCB Manufacturing Lead Times How to deal with nuances in PCB design and manufacturing? In today’s episode, Dave Young the owner of Young Circuits Design and founder of BlueStamp Engineering, and Zach talk about mitigating risk factors early in the stage of electronic design. Read Article

Roughness of Copper and its Effect on Signal Integrity

Roughness of Copper and its Effect on Signal Integrity Bert Simonovich, a very well-known expert in the signal integrity community, is our guest in today’s podcast episode. He developed the "Cannonball-Huray" model a transmission line loss modeling, which has been adopted in several popular EDA tools. Read Article

Design Predictable PCBs through Simberian's SIMBEOR® Electromagnetic Signal Integrity Software

Design Predictable PCBs through SIMBEOR® Electromagnetic Analysis In this episode, the founder of Simberian will demonstrate Simbeor’s simulation capabilities and briefly educate us on rise times, signal integrity, and solving EMI. Watch how an electromagnetic analyzer can be a lifesaver to a PCB designer like you. Read Article

10-Ounce Copper PCBs and Design Library Migration

10-Ounce Copper PCBs and Design Library Migration Today’s guest is Mario Strano, the senior PCB designer at Nikola and also president of ECAD Central. We will discuss interesting topics such as designing a 10-ounce PCB, setting up clearance and creepage rules, library migration, and a 57-ounce copper board; yes, you heard that right! Read Article

PCB Design Education Through Content Creation

PCB Design Education Through Content Creation Phil Salmony, a successful youtube creator with 64.6K subscribers, shares with us how he was introduced to PCB design, his early career, and what got him to start his own Youtube channel. Watch this podcast episode and check out the additional resources below. Read Article

IPC CEO John Mitchell on the Supporting American Printed Circuit Boards Act

IPC CEO John Mitchell on the Supporting American Printed Circuit Boards Act Supply chain security and having access to trusted manufacturers in the US would be an ideal outcome of the Printed Circuit Board Act. John Mitchell talks about the role of the IPC in influencing the creation of laws relating to the electronics industry. Watch this podcast episode now or listen on the go. Read Article

The Electronics Behind a Haunting Attraction

The Electronics Behind a Haunting Attraction In this episode, a returning guest Gabriel Goldstein shares the electronics behind the thrills in escape rooms. He also generously gives some valuable advice on finding your niche and starting your own business in the electronics industry. Watch and learn from this episode. Read Article

Occam Process: Assembly without Solder

Occam Process: Assembly without Solder Have you heard of assembly without solder? In this episode, Joseph (Joe) Fjelstad founder and president of Verdant Electronics talks about the Occam process – a solderless assembly for electronics. Read Article

Resilient, Robust and Trusted Supply Chain

The Benefits of Diversifying PCB Industry Supply Chain To develop a resilient ecosystem, understanding the root cause of the PCB industry supply chain shortages is a must. Listen to Travis Kelly and Zach’s insightful conversation about PCB supply chain shortages. Read Article

Accessible Trustworthy Data for PCB Designers

Easily Find Electronic Components for Your Next PCB Design Dan Schoenfelder joins us today to discuss the most extreme problems the PCB design industry faces: supply shortages, particularly the semi-conductor products and microcontrollers. Read Article