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

Multi-board and Harness Design Capability in Altium Designer 23

Multi-board and Harness Design Capability in Altium Designer 23 Altium’s VP of marketing Lawrence Romine discusses the multi-board and harness design capabilities coming in Altium Designer 23. Read Article

Overcoming Technological Challenges in the PCB Industry

Overcoming Technological Challenges in the PCB Industry In this episode we will discuss all about the technological challenges the industry is facing. Matt will help us understand the “ecosystem” involving the semiconductor industry, advanced packaging, and IC substrates. Read Article

Materials Science and Manufacturing of Better PCB

Materials Science and Manufacturing of Better PCB In this episode, our guest Geoffrey Leeds the product manager at Insulectro talks about how material science can help solve the unique manufacturing challenges fabricators are dealing with HDI designs. 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

Supply Chain Strategy for PCB Designer

Supply Chain Strategy for PCB Designer Supply chain management expert Chris Cain shares his 37 years of experience and strategies to overcome electronic part shortages. Read Article

Pros and Cons of Advanced Electronic Packaging for PCB Designers

Pros and Cons of Advanced Electronic Packaging for PCB Designers Our guest Phil Marcoux is very well-known in the advanced electronic packaging community and currently working as a business mentor in the electronics industry. Today we will tackle the pros and cons of heterogeneous electronic assemblies and what we can do as an industry to move forward with it. Read Article

Cutting Edge Technology in Packaging with an Interposer

Cutting Edge Technology in Packaging with an Interposer In this episode, our guest Joe Dickson, tells us about the cutting-edge technology implemented in advanced packaging at Wus Printed Circuit International. Read Article

What is in the PCB Bill?

What is in the PCB Bill? In this episode, Representative Moore, one of the co-sponsors of H.R.7677, the Supporting American Printed Circuit Boards Act of 2022, will give us brief but insightful details about the bill. Read Article

The Promising and Challenging Future of 3D Printed Electronics

The Promising and Challenging Future of 3D Printed Electronics The business development manager of J.A.M.E.S., Alexandre Schafer talks about the organization’s vision to push the Additively Manufactured Electronic technology to become more accessible to the industry. 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

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

JITX, a Way for Hardware Engineers to Write Codes

JITX, a Way for Hardware Engineers to Write Codes Duncan Haldane, the CEO, and co-founder of JITX joins us to share a very interesting approach to PCB design. JITX is a way for hardware engineers to write code to design circuit boards. Read Article