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High Speed Design Techniques: Schematic Considerations
With my apologies to Richard Rodgers and Oscar Hammerstein for borrowing their lyrics, “Let’s start at the very beginning, a very good place to start…” In this case, however, we are going to be looking at high frequency and high speed PCB design techniques instead of a Hollywood musical, and the beginning happens to be the schematic. You may argue that the place to start would be on the ground plane itself. Board materials, layer stackup planning
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How to Choose the Best PCB Reflow Oven for Efficient PCB Solder Assembly
Whether you’re an electrical engineer or an electronics hobbyist, solder reflow ovens enable fast and convenient printed board (PCB) assembly. If you have assembled dense PCBs with many small surface-mount components or used ball grid array (BGA) devices in your designs, you have undoubtedly come across solder PCB reflow ovens. While the ambitious hobbyist may choose to build a toaster oven “reflow oven” , many businesses can save time and
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How to Choose a Solder Reflow Oven for Efficient PCB Assembly
Whether you’re an electrical engineer, like me, or an electronics hobbyist, solder reflow ovens enable fast and convenient printed circuit board (PCB) assembly. If you have assembled dense PCBs with many small surface-mount components or used ball grid array (BGA) devices in your designs, you have undoubtedly come across solder reflow ovens. While the ambitious hobbyist may choose to build a toaster oven “reflow oven” , many businesses can save
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How IBM’s 5 nm Transistors Will Enable Internet of Things Deep Learning and Other Technologies
My great grandmother was born in a time when normal people still used horses and carriages to get around. By the end of her life, she had seen jet airplanes, computers, and spacecraft. Technology in the last century accelerated rapidly, and this century promises more of the same. Moore’s Law has been one measure of the pace of advancement. While many experts have predicted its doom, Moore’s Law stands today. The most recent proof of electronic
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Auto Software Developers: ASPICE Certification and What it Means to You
Software developer certification is necessary to guarantee functional safety and quality software products in the automotive industry. The ASPICE auto software developer certifications tell customers if a developer’s products work to specification, if the developer is able to provide support for its products, and how efficiently the developer operates. In college, a few friends and I got our first taste of embedded systems programming during our
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ECAD Design Data Release Management
There is no question that many of the our recent technological advancements, have been in fact within the communication realm! From the internet, cell phones, satellites, Facebook, and so on, it’s all been geared for us to easily communicate and collaborate. However, with all this technology in the palm of our hands, many companies today still struggle communicating their ECAD data releases. Whether it is to internally collaborate with peers and
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6 Things to Have in Your Team’s PCB Design Library
Components form the building blocks of our Printed Board designs, and making the right component selections can make or break a project’s budget. Are you doing everything you can to ensure that your design is both maintained and updated on a regular basis? More importantly, how are you ensuring that only approved, ready-to-use components are being used in your current PCB designs? Read on as we reveal the 6 things you need to have in your team’s
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Automate Output Job File Processing with PCB Release View in Altium Deisgner
There are many ways to peel an orange - so to speak - and some are better than others. And when it comes to generating fabrication and assembly outputs from your designs this adage holds true. In this PCB design tip, FAE Dave Cousineau describes a re-usable, highly effective way of managing output jobs using the PCB design release capability of Altium Designer
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. Using Output Job files to define and store the necessary documentation needs for any
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Collaborative Design Part 1: Optimizing PCB Design in Teams
Electronic design isn't a solo gig anymore. Teamwork among dozens or hundreds of designers, engineers, suppliers, manufacturers, and any number of other people is essential for bringing a product to market. This blog series explores the ways to cut through the barriers and reduce some of the tedious back-and-forth dialog that slows design cycles to a crawl. In part 1, we'll take a look at what kinds of features make for effective collaboration
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Automating PCB Design Environments: How to Simplify and Automate Your PCB ECO Workflow
Shuffling different programs for your schematic and PCB layout design changes costs both time and money. Altium Designer
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tackles this issue with a unified design system that automatically transfers data between schematic and PCB using component links. Read on to learn how component links are increasing productivity by automating ECO procedures. Transferring data from schematic to PCB, or vice versa, is traditionally a task stretched across
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How to Automate Your Design Review Workflow and Process
Your typical design review workflow can be filled with endless hurdles, errors, and time-consuming processes without the right tools, but it doesn’t have to be. Learn how you can automate your design review and comparison process in Altium Designer
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. The increasing demand for smaller, more capable electronics has been a major driving factor behind the development of more complex, densely packed PCBs. Although EDA software is regularly updated to
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How to Simplify Your Output Generation Workflow
Handing your design off to manufacturing can be a project in itself. Learn how to simplify your output generation workflow in Altium Designer
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to create error-free and accurate PCB documentation for manufacturing. You’ve completed an exhausting PCB design. The project is done, right? Not at all; it simply is an intermediate point before the product enters fabrication and assembly into the final product. Handing the design to manufacturing can be
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Communicate Design Intent with the Right Output Job File
Learn how to save hours of manual labor by automating your output job file creation process using the Project Releaser in Altium Designer
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. In my previous blog post , I talked about the manual processes still being used to create professional PCB design documents like fab and assembly drawings, and how a tool like Altium Draftsman
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can help automate that process. Unfortunately, creating your drawings is only part of the battle you face when
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Experience a Completely Unified Design Environment
With today’s ever growing market expectations, strict project deadlines, and increasingly complex designs, what solutions exist to minimize the time spent switching between your design tools to complete projects? Now you can successfully deliver products on time and within budget in a completely unified design environment. Read on to find out how. Do you feel like your schematic and pcb tools are from different planets? Are you still using a
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Quickly Identify and Correct Mistakes with Electronic Rule Checking
A product lifecycle management (PLM) tool allows users to access all data related to corporate products. This includes all component and design data, but also other critical data such as cost, preferred suppliers and other relevant corporate data. They integrate data, processes, business systems, and ultimately people, offering unrivaled transparency into extended enterprise. PLM systems allow companies to manage information throughout the entire
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Assembly Variants Management Systems Keeps Designs Synchronized
Altium Designer gives you a robust centralized variant management system. You can define any number of design variations of a base design, then manage component parameters and configure the variant components as fitted, not fitted, or alternate parts. As these variants share the same bare board and have impact on the assembly process only, we call these assembly variants. Now you will see how variant management in Altium Designer can harmonize
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