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Light Pipes Explained

Light Pipes Explained What do you do if you need to protect your device from the elements, be that wet or dusty conditions, high humidity, or external EMI? Read Article

How to Use Thermocouples in Your Next Project

How to Use Thermocouples in Your Next Project Thermocouples are the final sensor type in a series where we look at all the main types of temperature sensors you might use in an electronics project. In this series, we have looked at the various ways to implement different temperature sensors in your project. At the end of the series, we’ll be putting the sensors and implementations in a head to head competition using real-world conditions. Through this real-world testing, will gain a better Read Article

Power Delivery Analysis: Getting Started with PDN Analyzer

Power Delivery Analysis: Getting Started with PDN Analyzer The content on this page refers to the legacy PDN Analyzer extension. To learn more about the workflow in the new Power Analysis by Keysight extension, please visit this page. If you’ve ever been involved in RF design, high-speed design, high current design, or all these areas combined, you know the importance of power integrity in your PCB. If power delivery in your next PCB design is a critical performance factor, you need simulation and Read Article

Digital On-Demand Manufacturing and a 32-Bit MCU PCB for Everyone

Digital On-Demand Manufacturing and a 32-Bit MCU PCB for Everyone Eli Hughes shows us how on-demand manufacturing through a PCB manufacturer's cloud platform helped him quickly produce a set of high-quality prototypes for a MCU board. Read Article

EMI filter simulation for power supplies

EMI Filter for Simulating Noise Suppression with Altium Designer 20 and Altium 365 Simulations can get very complicated, but Altium 365 helps you keep your simulation models and data organized. Read Article

Through Thick And Thin — How Do You Get High Current Into a High Speed PCB?

Through Thick And Thin — How Do You Get High Current Into a High Speed PCB? The typical large currents in today’s high speed PCB designs require a different approach. This article will describe the stackup requirements associated with these very large current PCBs and how to design them so that they can be readily manufactured properly. Read Article

The Benefits of High-Dk PCB Materials

The Benefits of High-Dk PCB Materials The terms “high-speed design” and “low-Dk PCB laminate” are often used in the same articles, and often in the same sentence. Low-Dk PCB materials have their place in high speed and high-frequency PCBs, but high-Dk PCB materials provide power integrity. Low-Dk PCBs are typically chosen as they tend to have lower loss tangent. Thus high-DK PCB materials tend to get overlooked for high speed and high-frequency PCBs. When we look at power integrity Read Article

A Guide to Challenging Projects

A Guide to Challenging Projects Starting a project? Here's an expert advise from Mark Harris to get you through challenging design projects. Read this blog and see if this method will work for you. Read Article

Cellular internet of things design and devices

Using Cellular Modules for Internet of Things Devices and Design Cellular internet of things products are widely accessible and easy to design thanks to standard cellular modem modules and transceiver components. Read Article

Determining the Parasitic Inductance of a DC to DC Converter

Determining the Parasitic Inductance of a DC to DC Converter Unwanted parasitic inductance from capacitors and transformer leakage inductance in DC/DC converters cause power instability in digital systems. Here's how you can determine parasitic inductance in your power system. Read Article

What is transfer impedance

What is Transfer Impedance in a PDN? We often talk about impedance in a PDN, but we always refer to self impedance. Here’s what you need to know about transfer impedance in your PCB. Read Article

Using Altium Designer for the Cellular Industrial IoT

Using Altium Designer for the Cellular Industrial IoT Industrial IoT can benefit hugely from cellular connectivity, and new cellular IoT hardware solutions are making it easy for innovators to build new products. Read Article

Oscilloscope Basics: A Beginner's Guide

Oscilloscope Basics: A Beginner's Guide Wondering how to use an oscilloscope? Read this guide from Mark Harris to learn more about some oscilloscope basics for new electronics engineers. Read Article

NTC Thermistors as Temperature Sensors

NTC PCB Thermistors as Temperature Sensors So what is an NTC thermistor? NTC thermistors are the most commonly used class of sensor as they are cheap, easy to use, and accurate enough for most applications. Read on to learn more about NTC and other temperature sensors. Read Article

PFC Circuit Design and Layout for Power Systems

PFC Circuit Design and Layout for Power Systems Much as we would like, the power input into a PCB is not always a clean DC or sinusoidal signal. DC coming from a rectifier will have some ripple from the output capacitor, and AC signals can contain noise or be less-than-perfect sine waves. There are some ways to correct these problems, either by choosing the right filtration circuit or by shaping the input wave to produce maximum power output to a load in the system. If you’re working with an Read Article

A Power Integrity Tutorial

A Power Integrity Primer Take a look at our power integrity tutorial to better understand PDN design for low noise and and stable power to components. Read Article

12 Ideas for Implementing NFC in Your Design

12 Ideas for Implementing NFC in Your Design Read to learn about many possibilities for NFC; some of these project ideas are taken from commercially available products or research papers; others are ideas from working through reading the NFC standard. Read Article