A few years ago, I wrote a few columns titled Making A Thing. These columns were a tutorial of sorts for several different 3D modeling programs. This column wasn’t meant to be a complete guide to ...

SAN DIEGO--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Altium LLC (ASX: ALU) announced today that it has launched Altium Education, a free online curriculum and certification program for college and university students ...

This is the continuation of a series of articles demonstrating how to Create A PCB In Everything. In this series, we take a standard reference circuit and PCB layout — a simple ATtiny85 board — and ...

This is the first of several articles in the PCB Design Best Practices series, which discusses the different steps of PCB development from the basics of creating a design schematic with specific ...

Several browser-based PCB design tools have emerged in the past couple of years, yet the vast majority of designers are still using the same desktop applications that have dominated the EDA industry ...

Let's face it. We all make mistakes, and PCB designers are no exception. And contrary to popular belief, making mistakes is ok, as long as we learn from them. Here is a quick summary of some common ...

The plating type is usually immaterial to the footprint geometry but is often incorporated somewhere in the vendor part ...

Eventually, almost every EE must design a PCB, which isn’t something that’s taught in school. Yet engineers, technicians, and even novice PCB designers can create high-quality PCBs for any and every ...

Agentic AI, properly implemented, offers a path forward. But it will not emerge from larger models or more data alone. It requires a deliberate effort to capture and formalize design intent, to encode ...