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5 Myths about PCB Design-Busted!
Our industry changes everyday, and we need to make sure we keep up. Design constraints today may not be an issue tomorrow, so make sure you’re following fact and not fiction. Here are 5 myths of PCB design. There are a number of guidelines to PCB design, to help you create circuit boards that are low-power, bug-free, and generally functional. Some of these guidelines can be bent occasionally, depending on what your design needs, like component
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How to Optimize Your Power Distribution Network in Only Four Steps
Modern designers face a problem that we traditionally did not have to think about: Power Distribution Network () integrity. We have all seen the need for signal integrity for decades, but power integrity has fallen to the wayside for just as long. Traditionally we have had plenty of space to use dedicated power planes that easily supplied our designs with everything they required for operation. But as we continue to push the physical limits of
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How to Address Design Issues Before It’s Too Late
What measures do you take to see past the quality testing of your PCB to ensure you never have to worry about issues post-production? The key lies in analysis automation. Read on to learn more. “ I ran PDN Analyzer
™
on a board currently in fabrication and already caught a mistake I made. I had a footprint peppered with vias and forgot to make them blinds and they were eating up my power plane. is proving to be a very useful tool to identify these
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Altium Designer 2016 Roadshow Recap - Technologies, Predictions, and Passions
From Berlin to the Bay Area and beyond, we journeyed across the globe to share our vision for future of electronics design with our customers at this year’s Altium Designer
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Roadshow Series. What does the future hold for Altium? Read on to find out. From Berlin to the Bay Area and beyond, we journeyed across the globe to share our vision for future of electronics design at this year’s Altium Roadshow Series . This event has always been something
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Reporting Now in On-Demand Licensing
You’ve been asking for greater visibility and reporting functionality for your Altium On-Demand Licenses, and we’re delivering. Read on to learn about the three new reasons to start using On-Demand Licensing. Three New Reasons to Start Using On-Demand Licensing Fellow engineers, you’ve been asking for greater visibility and reporting functionality for your Altium On-Demand Licenses, and we’re delivering. With the arrival of Altium Designer
®
, we
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Using 3D STEP Models to Reduce PCB Design Respins
Integrating mechanical design workflows into electrical design tools has become a necessary component of today’s successful PCB design processes. But transferring inaccurate design data back and forth between the ECAD and MCAD worlds can not only cause frustrations felt by both design teams but can also drastically increase the number of design spins required to fit a PCB into its final assembly. Regardless of the electrical design tool’s 3D
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Supporting Seamless Design Communication with 3D PDFs
With the increasing complexity of modern PCB designs, effectively communicating design intent is a growing challenge that threatens both speed-to-market and overall production costs. In the race to bring quality products to market before your competition, information has to be shared quickly and efficiently while clearly conveying critical aspects of the design. But how can you go about doing that? Leveraging Native 3D
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PDF Exporting One way of
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The Top 6 DFM Issues in PCBs That Affect Every Design
As a PCB Designer, you have to manage a variety of different requirements and expectations. There are electrical, functional, and mechanical aspects to consider. In addition, the PCB layout has to be produced in a timely manner, with the best possible quality, at the lowest possible cost. And through all of these requirements, you also need to factor in DFM (Design for Manufacturability). It’s a big part of the PCB design process and one which
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Hardware Engineers Who Design Tomorrow
Everyone has a personal story about the things that brought them into hardware engineering. Mine stems from a desire to work on designing new technology to make people’s lives better. Designing new technologies can have ripple effects that you could never predict. What is your dream project? Learning to drive is one of the greatest experiences of my life. I grew up a couple miles from the Pacific Ocean in Southern California and remember driving
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Getting Your Layer Stack Done Right the First Time
Failure to properly design the layer stack is a common mistake in PCB assembly. This blunder often occurs during the final stages of fabrication, but can easily be prevented by including the appropriate features in the beginning stages of PCB design. Read on to learn about what layer stackup features you’ll want to include in your design. One of the most common mistakes during the PCB fabrication process is improper layer order. If left unchecked
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How to Adopt Signal Integrity Analysis in Your High-Speed Design Process
As our designs become more complicated, the risk of signal integrity issues increases. Adopting signal integrity simulation in your design process can mitigate risks and preserve resources. Read to learn more. The way signals operate in reality is often very different from the theoretical applications taught in universities, and as a consequence, moving from theory to practical application can often lead to unpredictable results. A signal can be
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Backdrill it Baby - How to Reduce Signal Distortions on Your PCB
Over the years, engineers have developed several approaches to deal with noises that can distort high speed digital signal integrity in printed circuit board backdrill designs. And as our designs push new boundaries, so does the complexity of our techniques to cope with new challenges. Today, the speed of digital design systems is in the GHz, a speed that creates more prominent challenges than the past. And with edge rates at the picoseconds, any
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The Transition of Transistors: A Transistor History Timeline
Even if you’re not an electrical engineer, chances are you still love technology and all it offers, whether it be for work or pleasure. We all get caught up in the buzz when a new processor comes out and hear things like how Intel is using a 14nm (nanometer) technology and has over a billion graphene transistors. But what exactly is this technology and for what device? Back to the Basics As complicated as the world of engineering can be
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Autorouting, or No Autorouting? A History of Failed Design Automation
Learn about the complete history of EDA design automation and the evolution of PCB autorouting technology from the 1980s to today. Welcome to the world of electronics. It’s 2016, and we’re now seeing more technological sophistication than in any other period in human history. Just this year alone autonomous vehicles have began their introduction into the public sphere, rockets are being re-landed from space for reuse with finely tuned precision
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How to Save Time Managing Your Component Libraries
Component management is a time-consuming and frustrating process that takes valuable time away from other important tasks, but what if there was a way to auto-fill the necessary information for your components? Read on to learn how Altium Vault
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mitigates the management process with the use of a component template. Let us take a look at a pattern library and our component definition. Perhaps one of the most tedious jobs in the ECAD world is
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The Do’s and Don’ts of PCB Design
How can you become a better PCB designer? You know all the basics of printed circuit boards, but you want to go beyond that. Accomplish truly great things, and take your place amongst the legends of what is PCB design. So what can you do? What is it that separates the best PCB design pros from everyone else, and what does it take to be like them? How can you become a better PCB designer? You know all the basics of printed circuit boards, but you
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Is IPC-2152 Holding Your Power Integrity Back?
For most designers, the Power Distribution Network (PDN) is a foreign and intimidating part of the PCB design process. But achieving optimal PDN performance is not as complicated as it seems. For many designers, the Power Distribution Network (PDN) is a foreign and intimidating part of the PCB design process. But achieving optimal PDN performance is not as complicated as it seems. In fact, the fundamental goal of optimizing your PDN can be as
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