Have you ever designed a product only to have it fail electromagnetic interference (EMI) tests for emissions or immunity? If you have, then next time, you can follow some basic design steps to reduce ...

By Alexsander Tamari, Technical Marketing Engineer, Altium What works for two engineers sharing a schematic rarely works for a team of twenty. Passing files around via email threads or a shared ...

For predictable PCBs, stop thinking in terms of voltage and current and start thinking about energy propagation with field containment. They called me “Professor” when I worked part-time as an ...

I was looking over the week’s posts on Hackaday – it’s part of my job after all – and this gem caught my eye: a post about how to make your own RP2040 development board from scratch. And I’ll admit ...

One of the most common issues I see with schematic and PCB layout is crossed wires. For example, the designer has connected the USART peripherals transmit line to the transmit line of the receiving ...

The gap between schematic generation and PCB layout reveals a larger problem: Hardware design is still organized as a serial ...

It’s been a while, but I still visit the fundamentals of PCB design and troubleshooting. It is very effortless to generate unwanted signals that suddenly dance across the board. This acquired noise ...

Makers, developers And electronic enthusiasts who have been prototyping electronic circuits using breadboards, Raspberry Pi mini PCs, Arduino ’s and other hardware. Who would like to take the next ...

Rigid-Flex PCBs have been used in many modern electronic devices (such as mobile phones, laptops, and wearables, among others), due to their form factor, light weight, and cost-effectiveness.