Considerations for dividing analog and digital blocks. Decoupling techniques. Breaking down the board layers. How best to deal with grounding. Similar to building a house, it’s essential to create a ...

This application note focuses on printed circuit board (PCB) layout considerations for QFN and DQFN packages. This is intended for users who are familiar with PCB design, as well as, signal integrity ...

“Noise problem!” Two words every circuit board designer has heard that trigger hours of lab testing time to identify the culprit. Only later to learn that the noise is due to poor layout of the ...

Today’s electronic devices market demands miniaturized printed circuit boards (PCBs) with a multitude of high-speed functions integrated on a single board. This causes the designers to have traces ...

Cloud tools like Altium 365 are gold for PCB design collaboration. They unify schematics, layouts, and BOMs in one hub. A 2025 Gartner report says cloud adoption speeds design cycles by 21%. No more ...

The diagram above is a typical PCB layout in Altium Circuitmaker software. The days of “electro” and “mechanical” being separate disciplines are long gone. Virtually all mechanical systems now come ...