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IPC CEO John Mitchell on the Impact of COVID-19 on the Electronics Supply Chain The SARS-CoV-2 crisis has had an unprecedented impact on the electronics industry. Here, Dr. Mitchell discusses the IPC’s role in mitigating those industry-wide effects. Read Article

Chris Carlson's Time Saving Tips for PCB Design Chris Carlson, Snr FAE at Altium and accomplished Electrical and Electronic Engineer shares the expertise of his 23-year career in development, documentation, manufacturing, application engineering, and customer support. According to an Aberdeen study, 61% of a designer’s time is spent doing non-direct, design-related activities, such as sourcing components, document control, and so much more. Chris is here to help you improve your efficiency and Read Article

Signal Integrity Evangelist Eric Bogatin, our Expert Insider to DesignCon 2020 Signal integrity expert, Dr. Eric Bogatin, joins us in this episode to talk about the upcoming DesignCon conference and expo that will be held in Santa Clara, CA January 28th through January 30th. Dr. Bogatin shares information about the presentations he’ll be giving; this includes a 2-part S-Parameter master class, speed training about understanding TDR measurements, and a session tackling tricks the experts use to get more out of their Read Article

Exploring Arduino is Now Expanded and Updated by Jeremy Blum The Altium OnTrack Podcast with Judy Warner welcomes one of the Hardware design community’s brightest stars, Jeremy Blum. Jeremy recently released a new version of his book that is a heavily expanded and updated edition. Exploring Arduino, has helped people around the world and now you can get a completely up-to-date version, which you can buy now. Jeremy is a two-time AltiumLive keynote speaker and has also been featured on this podcast twice Read Article

Ben and Judy 2019 Wrap-Up Welcome the year-end wrap with Ben Jordan, where we’ll discuss routing engines, RF and microwave and high-speed design, and how they differ. We’ll talk about signal integrity, and discuss what 2020 and beyond will hold for design. And lastly, we’ll share some resources and links as our holiday gift to you. Listen to the Podcast: Download this episode (right click and save) Watch the video: Show Highlights: The recent launch of Altium Designer 20® Read Article

Simberian’s 3D Field Solver in Altium Designer Simberian makes a physics-based 3D field solver tool that helps measure not only the traces on your board but also the materials. Altium recently entered into a formal partnership with Simberian, and Roger Paje - VP of Global Marketing, discusses with us how this impacted Altium Designer® 19 and 20, and what’s we’ll see going into Altium Designer 21 and beyond. Listen to the Podcast: Download this episode (right click and save) Watch the video Read Article

Patrick Züger Talks About the Altium Designer 20 New and Exciting Features Patrick Züger from GPV Switzerland, a massive fabricator and assembly facility across Europe and China, delivered a great talk at AltiumLive in Europe. He shares his feedback and design process with and as an Altium Designer® Beta User. We discuss his initial impressions of Altium Designer 20. Listen to the Podcast: Download this episode (right click and save) Watch the video: Show Highlights: As a CID+ Hardware/PCB designer in a global EMS Read Article

TE Connectivity Paving the Way into 100 GBps Data Rates Nathan Tracy and Justin Pickel from TE Connectivity discuss how they’re feverishly paving the way to 100 gigabits per second data rates! They tell us about how this will affect your design as well as the whole infrastructure of our industry. Get ready to drink from the fire hose... Listen to the Podcast: Download this episode (right click and save) Watch the video: Show Highlights: Justin has been with TE’s high-speed data development group for Read Article

Saving Time Routing in Altium Designer 20 Mark Ross is a long-time Altium Beta user and our guest in this podcast episode to share his insights and the value he gets from being a Beta user. He also chimes in on a long list of questions about what he thinks of Altium Designer 20. He gets into the details on this latest release of Altium Designer and what sets it apart from other eCAD packages, the most significant new feature, and - are there any designs the tool can’t handle? Listen in Read Article

Max Seeley and Carl Schattke on AltiumLive 2019 Recording from AltiumLive Europe—we have Max Seeley, Lead Electrical Engineer at 3M's Digital Solutions Group and Carl Schattke, Lead PCB Design Engineer from a well-known electrical vehicle manufacturer for a coffee-table chat about the value of attending and being involved with tech conferences like AltiumLive. Max and Carl also share with us how they came up with their presentation ‘Schematic to PCB Design: Passing the Baton Like a Champion’ Read Article

Mike Konrad on Design for Reliability Mike Konrad’s passion is educating people about cleaning their boards at assembly. If you care about Design for Reliability (DfR), you’ll learn a lot from this podcast. Mike is President & CEO of Aqueous Technologies, which manufactures, sells, and supports machines that clean circuit boards after reflow, with the goal to remove ionic residue and eliminate the chance of electrochemical migration. He is also a fellow-podcaster; hosting a show Read Article

Altium VP, Lawrence Romine on Altium Designer 20 Listen to the Podcast: Lawrence Romine, VP of Corporate Marketing for Altium discusses what new features you can expect from Altium Designer® 20, which will be available later this year. Download this episode (right click and save) Watch the video: Show Highlights: Lawrence has been with Altium for almost 15 years. At the time, the move to offshore manufacturing was prevalent and his previous experience with semi-conductors and FPGAs fit in well Read Article

Shaper Engineer Jeremy Blum on Arduino and Building Consumer Products Listen to the Podcast: Download this episode (right click and save) Watch the video: Jeremy Blum is the Director of Engineering at Shaper, a start-up company that built the world's first handheld CNC technology for woodworking. Jeremy talks about his keynote speech at the AltiumLive PCB Design Summit on October 21 - 23 in Frankfurt, Germany. His talk is about product development and lifecycle management from a holistic approach to engineering and Read Article

Happy Holden the Father of HDI PCBs Happy Holden, known as the father of High-Density Interconnect and the author of The HDI Handbook, is this episode’s fascinating guest. We’ll discuss how Happy went from a small-town boy to a first-name basis with legends Bill Hewlett and David Packard, the founders of HP. Happy will be a keynote speaker at our AltiumLive Annual PCB Design Summit in Frankfurt, where he’ll discuss smart factories and how we’re going to get to the point of having Read Article

Get Inspired by Major League Hacking with Jonathan Gottfried Jonathan Gottfried is co-founder of Major League Hacking, or MLH, the official student hackathon league. Major League Hacking’s vision is to inspire students worldwide from both traditional and non-traditional backgrounds. They’ve influenced new generations of engineers; from software, hardware, and mechanical disciplines in the events they have thrown worldwide. Learn more about Jonathan and his inspiring work at MLH. Listen to the Podcast Read Article

Carl Schattke - Designing Complex Boards Today in the studio, we welcome Carl Schattke, who works for a leading electric vehicle manufacturer. Carl has almost forty years of experience in PCB Design and will teach us about the things he thinks about when designing very complex boards. He’ll discuss what he’s going to cover as a keynote at AltiumLive in Frankfurt, October 21st through 23rd, and he’ll tell us more about a talk he’s co-presenting with Max Seeley from 3M, in which they’ll Read Article

Bob Martin Goes From Prototype to Production with an Arduino Board Listen to the Podcast: Today we speak with Bob Martin, a Senior Staff Engineer with Microchip. Bob is also known as ‘the Wizard of Make’, and today he’ll discuss his AltiumLive Keynote on October 11th in San Diego, where he’ll teach on how to go from prototype to production with Arduino Board, transitioning it into a production-ready board that you can manufacture. Download this episode (right click and save) Watch the video: Show Highlights: Bob Read Article