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Schematic Design Review Checklist

Schematic Design Review Checklist This article is a simple, no-frills checklist to help you check schematics. Read now and avoid schematic design mistakes that could make their way into prototypes or production without a second thought. Read Article

H-bridge Full Wave Rectifier

Beginner's Guide to H-bridge Full Wave Rectifier Design Need to start a new power conversion design? You’ll probably need an H-bridge full-wave rectifier to produce a stable DC output. Read Article

Getting Started with ESP8266

Getting Started With ESP8266 A project overview on getting started with the ESP8266 device. Expert Ari Mahpour reviews the benefits of using a device such as the NodeMCU board from HiLetgo and how to get up and running with a few examples. Read Article

ESD Protection Circuit Design

Beginner’s Guide to ESD Protection Circuit Design for PCBs Circuit protection from transient voltages and currents can be applied with ESD protection circuit designs. Learn more about these circuits in our guide for new engineers. Read Article

DNP in BOM and PCB assembly

Best Practices for DNI/DNP Components in Your PCB BOM You can use the DNI/DNP designation on components in your PCB BOM to create design variants as long as you’ve created your layout correctly. Read Article

best circuit schematic editor

Use the Best Circuit Drawing Software With SPICE and Schematic Capture Use the best circuit schematic editor to create your next electronic design and start your PCB layout. Read Article

Which Types of Opto-Isolators Are Right For Your Signal?

Which Type of Opto-Isolator Is Right For Your Circuit? An optoisolator is an electronic device that can be used to pass information between a diode without passing an electrical current. Because there is no need to directly pass voltage or current between the inputs and outputs in an optoisolator circuit, these components can be used to provide electrical isolation in two regions in a PCB. Opto-isolators act as a protection mechanism, ensuring that harmful electrical currents cannot flow across the Read Article

MOSFETs in series

Should You Use Power MOSFETs in Series? In this article, we look in greater depth at how to properly use combinations of MOSFETs in series compared to their use in parallel. Read Article

Circuit Diagram Maker: Your Guide to Building with Altium Designer

Online Circuit Block Diagram Maker: Your Guide to Building PCBs with Altium Designer Some PCB design software packages make you feel like you’ve been bamboozled. On one hand, you’re told that you’ll have access to tools that will let you move through the entire design process. Then all of a sudden, you can’t finish your design without purchasing critical features as add-ons. Only Altium Designer integrates all the best design tools in a single circuit diagram maker. You can get access to free versions that include critical design Read Article

Reference Designators

Altium Designer Helps You Track Reference Designators on Your PCB Make sure you use the correct reference designators in your PCB and in your drawings, schematic sheets, and circuit board layout. Read Article

Step Up Into Altium Designer from PCAD

Step Up Into Altium Designer from PCAD The original goal of PCAD, to give PCB designers the best tools possible, lives on today in Altium. Altium Designer is made for designers like you and will import your legacy PCAD designs so you can continue your work. ALTIUM DESIGNER CAD software that will continue through the years. Back in 1982, an innovative new PCB design software CAD tool called P-CAD was introduced to the world. This PCAD PCB design tool quickly outgrew its competition and Read Article

Altium Designer’s Free PCB Viewer Download Allows You to Explore Your BRD Files

Altium Designer’s Free PCB Viewer Download Allows You to Explore Your BRD Files Today, it almost seems that there are as many PCB design file formats as there are PCB manufacturers. Using a custom file format is advantageous when working with the originating company’s program. However, there are many times when you need the capability to view or use non-native files. This can be a challenge when working with most PCB software companies, but not Altium. Altium offers a free online BRD file viewer powered by the Altium 365 Read Article

PCB schematic netlist

The Anatomy of Your Schematic Netlist, Ports, and Net Names Your schematic netlist will create the link between components as you build your schematic sheets. See how your schematic sheets enable usage of net names and ports to help you stay organized. Read Article

Pi Filter Designs for Power Supplies

Pi Filter Designs for Power Supplies In this article, Expert Mark Harris will be looking at the low-pass filter arrangement. He will cover basic principles all the way to design constraints. Read now to learn more. Read Article

An Overview of Dual Power Supply Design

An Overview of Dual Power Supply Design In this article, you will learn about the numerous types and configurations for designing PCB with a dual power supply. Mark Harris included bonus design tips. Read Article

Designing for the FPGA Pin Mapper

Designing for the FPGA Pin Mapper It is a well-known fact that FPGA IO names must meet specific syntax requirements in Verilog or VHDL. The naming convention used in Altium Designer schematics doesn’t always meet these criteria specified by the hardware description languages (HDL). As a result, there can often be a mismatch between PCB net names and the actual FPGA signal names. As more users experiment with the FPGA Pin Mapper tool in Altium Designer, they will discover that the Read Article

Get the Most From Your Power Supply Design Software

Get the Most From Switching Your Power Supply Design Software to Altium Power supplies can be difficult to design and layout as they require attention to safety and efficiency. Everything from isolation to thermal management needs to be considered in these systems, and designers need to have a complete set of design features to create reliable power supplies. In addition, power supplies tend to have mechanical constraints imposed by the enclosure, and these need to be considered when creating a PCB layout for a power Read Article