OnTrack: The PCB Design Podcast

By Altium LLC.

The PCB Design Podcast features conversations on all facets of PCB Design and Hardware Development... more

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November 23, 2021 The NEXAR Ecosystem
Zach Peterson, our guest host, interviews Lawrence Romine, Altium’s Vice president of Marketing, about the exciting future of PCB Design. In this episode, Lawrence will share Altium’s mission in creating an ecosystem that helps PCB designers and engineers be the best they can be and give them access to collaboration and sharing tools.
Altium 365: Where the World Designs Electronics
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Show Highlights:
What makes Altium designer a cutting-edge PCB designer software
Design challenges and solutions, saving PCB designers 70-90 percent of potential problems
Design with your manufacturer, addressing extinct manufacturing methods,
Bringing the primary and secondary stakeholders in the PCB design Industry together through the cloud
Building a solution that allows anybody with a PCB design background to design
The benefit of Partnership vs. Acquiring
For the Designers - accessibility to tools and capabilities where users could select what best fit their needs
For the partners - allows them to access Altium's user base and make them aware of the design solutions that they would not have known existed
More about Nexar, users will have access to:
Frontend engineering tools
Simulation tools
Data management features
Supply chain intelligence
IHS Markit data
A brief overview of Lawrence career background and experience before Altium
NEXAR embed features
Links and Resources:
Previous Podcast Episode: What is NEXAR?
NEXAR website
AltiumLive 2022 Connect: Now open for registration
Connect with Zach Peterson on LinkedIn
Connect with Lawrence Romine on Linkedin
Watch Zach’s latest Altium Academy courses on Youtube
Read Zach’s articles on Altium’s resource hub
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44min
November 11, 2021 Six Weeks with Zach Peterson Guest Host
The OnTrack Podcast team is very excited to have Zach Peterson as a guest host for the next six weeks. Zach is Altium’s Technical Consultant and Expert PCB Design Instructor on the Altium Academy Youtube channel. Today he will share with us some details about what to expect in the coming weeks.
Altium 365: Where the World Designs Electronics
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Show Highlights:
Judy’s focusing on AltiumLive Planning for the next six weeks
Zach to take over as the podcast’s guest host
Update on Zach’s video series and the feedback he’s been receiving, and what’s coming up
Q&A Sessions
Discussion on how to work with your manufacturer, ie. RF Design
Eric Bogatin has been confirmed as a Keynote speaker at AltiumLive
Will Zach present at AltiumLive?
Potential guests during Zach’s takeover
DuPont Acquires Rogers Corporation
AltiumLive 2022 registration is now open with a 20% early bird discount
Check out Zach’s Articles on Altium’s Resources hub
Links and Resources:
Altium Academy YouTube Channel (Zach’s videos)To Ask Zach Questions for upcoming Q&A on YouTube: Submit questions to [email protected] Acquires Rogers CorporationAltiumLive Registration is Open. Get a 20% early bird discount by registering now!
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October 26, 2021 MMw and RF Interaction
Our guest today is John Coonrod, the Technical Marketing Manager at Rogers Corporation. John will generously share with us today a glimpse of his recent keynote presentation at PCB West 2021, Advancements in Prepreg Enabling New Applications for Millimeter-wave and High-Speed Digital.
Altium 365: Where the World Designs Electronics
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Show Highlights:
Quick overview of High-Speed Design Overview & relationship to RF designs
Slide: RF System - overview of insertion loss and return loss
Slide: Millimeter Wave
Slide: Sine Waves
Slide - I diagrams
Quick RF and MMw overview by John: Loss issues and issues that arise with High-Speed Digital Designs
The impact of low-loss materials
Glass weave
What is Rogers 1200? BISCO® HT-1200
PPE material
Links and Resources:
Rogers Technology Support HubRogers Advanced Electronics Solutions WebsiteJohn Coonrod’s LinkedIn ProfileAltiumLive CONNECT | Registration is now open!
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October 19, 2021 Deterministic Solutions to Solve Skew Problems
Everything that goes to making a board works against signal integrity...physics screw things up. -Bill Hargin
Avoid getting your design “skewed”! Today’s guest is Z-Zero’s Founder and CEO, Bill Hargin. Together we will dive into the cause of getting skews in your board. There are many details, and many questions answered, so make sure to watch through the end and check out the additional resources below.
Altium 365: Where the World Designs Electronics
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Show Highlights:
Introduction, a brief overview of Z-Zero and Bill’s background
Hardware Manager at Boeing (Electronic cooling and CAD design)
He became the Director of Sales and Marketing at Hyperlynx
High-speed marketing and five years in laminate space
Sharing his deep knowledge of signal integrity - travel around the world doing workshops
2018 - full time at Z-Zero, a software company he founded. Z-Zero is an EDA start-up that offers solutions for stackup design, field solver, automation, library
Bill presents every year at the PCB West on topics of stackup design and material selection
Bill offers more resources through webinars and blog articles on z-zero.com
What are Skews, and why is it’s a problem?
Comprehensive overview and solutions
Deterministic solutions
Stochastic Solutions
What is a Glass-weave skew (GWS)?
Prepreg glass types, what is spread glass?
Bill’s deterministic solutions to avoid skew
Angled routing
Rotating artwork 10 degrees (waste about 15% of the material, higher cost)
Links and Resources:
Bill Hargin on LinkedInZ-Zero WebsiteWho Should Be Concerned about the Fiber-Weave Effect?
Read the blogs:How to Avoid Getting Totally Skewed – Part 1How to Avoid Getting Totally Skewed, Part 2How to Avoid Getting Totally Skewed, Part 3How to Avoid Getting Totally Skewed, Part 4
Watch the Webinars:Glass-Weave Skew - Part 1 - Who Cares?Glass-Weave Skew - Part 2 - Mitigation Methods

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September 21, 2021 Troubleshooting EMC Immunity Issues
Most PCB Designers wear many hats, and one of them is to solve EMC problems.
Ken Wyatt, the EMC expert, talks about his passion for sharing his knowledge on addressing the most common EMC problems with PCB designers. Why is it important to troubleshoot it during the design process, and how can you acquire this skill that is not offered in the university? Watch now or listen on the go!
Altium 365: Where the World Designs Electronics
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Show Highlights:
Ken Wyatt’s background and career transitions.
Ken’s inspiration for writing his books:
Addressing basic design issues
Challenges of not having full-time EMC experts
Focus on PCB designers
Ken’s book series (available on Amazon):
Create your Own EMC Troubleshooting Kit
Workbench Troubleshooting EMC Emissions
Workbench Troubleshooting EMC Immunity
What is immunity? The product should not affect the environment and the environment should not affect the product
Radiated Immunity, one of the biggest issues product designers face when complying with immunity
The rise of IOT, industry observation.
Expectations vs Reality when hiring university graduates for EMC-related positions.
Ken will be a Keynote at IEEE EMC Conference Minneapolis on September 23, 2021
Links and Resources:
EMC Seminars WebsiteKen Wyatt’s Author Page on AmazonWorkbench Troubleshooting EMC Immunity (Volume 3)Ken Wyatt’s LinkedIn ProfileChasing the Light (Lighthouse Photography) by Ken and Sheila WyattFull OnTrack Podcast LibraryAltium WebsiteDownload your Altium Designer Free TrialLearn More about Altium Nexus
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41min
September 14, 2021Software-Driven Hardware Development
Build and develop workflow in a "lightweight" way.
Kyle Dumont and Valentina Toll Villagra, the founders of AllSpice are passionate about taking hardware development to speed through the cloud. Their ultimate goal is to bring people together, bring the system together, and automate repetitive processes. Watch or listen on the go. You don't want to miss this.
Altium 365: Where the World Designs Electronics
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Show Highlights:
Introductions
Kyle Dumont’s background in product development
Valentina Toll Villagra background in Mechanical Engineering at Amazon -- machinery and logistics
How Allspice got started?
Kyle’s experience as an electrical engineer -- software principles applied to hardware
Improve the product cycle
Keeping up with the change in speed and expectations
The need to build a dedicated and specific tool that will allow engineers to collaborate remotely
Why the name ‘AllSpice’
Software-driven Hardware Development: What do you mean??
Hardware (HW) today is what Software (SW) was ten years ago (in-person design review)
SW is having a growing influence on HW development
Shared practices, tools, timelines, etc.
Need for integrated development.
Immediate application/solution: Component Shortages
Replacing components takes more than updating a part number
It’s more important than ever to validate components quickly and effectively.
Our most successful customers use an 8-step process (read the blog post)
BOM Check
Identifying OOS components
Finding a replacement
Updating the component library, and the design
Validating the component characteristics
Verifying component footprints
Checking for unintended changes - this is the one that gets you
Releasing the updated design
Providing flexible development infrastructure
Moving things digitally--in the cloud
Teams are more distributed (geographically and in terms of skills)
Faster design cycles
What’s driving faster design cycles?
What is the impact? (New requirements/old tools and methods)
AllSpice Hub features that we didn’t anticipate
Where are we going...Continuous Integration, bring people together, bring the system together, and automate repetitive processes
Links and Resources:
Visit AllSpice Website
Kyle’s LinkedIn profile
Valentina’s LinkedIn profile
AllSpice’s LinkedIn page
Read the blog: Keeping up with the Chip Shortage
Demo design review
Full OnTrack Podcast Library
Altium Website
Download your Altium Designer Free Trial
Learn More about Altium Nexus

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40min
September 07, 2021 State of PCB Design Education
Zach Peterson shares his insights about the availability and accessibility of education related to PCB design for high school and university students. Tune in now or download this episode and listen on the go.
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August 24, 2021 AltiumLive Co-locates with IPC Apex Expo
AltiumLive 2022 and IPC Apex 2022 are joining forces to bring together all stakeholders in the PCB industry.
We have two executives joining us in this episode. Our very own Chief Ecosystem Officer and head of Altium Nexar, Ted Pawela; and IPC’s Vice President of Standards and Technology, Dave Bergman. They will share with us some exciting news about the most anticipated exhibits in the PCB community.
Altium 365: Where the World Designs Electronics
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Show Highlights:
Introductions:
Ted Pawela, the Chief Ecosystem Officer and Head of Cloud (Nexar) Business Unit at Altium
Dave Bergman, the Vice President Standards and Technology at IPC
IPC and Altium Live conferences co-locate
Uniting the stakeholders: PCB Design, PCB Manufacturing, PCB Supply Chain
IPC leadership role in the industry⁠— providing standards and educational foundation
Bringing and exposing the PCB Designers to additional valuable education
Dates of conferences and where overlap opportunities will be offered
IPC Apex 2022: January 25th - 27th in San Diego with the theme “Digital Transcendence”
AltiumLive 2022: January 26th - 28th in San Diego with the theme: “Connect”
The intersection between the 2 conferences
The relevance and synergies of ecosystems and community engagement
Education strategies from Altium, IPC, and places of interest to intersect
Understanding what’s beyond the tools
Advancing the PCB designers’ careers through education
IPC serves as a validation of the designers’ skills and talent through CID and CID+ training.
IPC Foundation
Why should you attend, what opportunities are there for you?
User-centric
Learn from the pure hard work of subject matter experts
Improve design skills and connect with the people in the community
Experience the biggest and the best, see you in January 2022
Links and Resources:
AltiumLive 2022 WebsiteIPC Apex Expo 2022IPC CID Training (Eptac)Altium Academy YouTube ChannelIPC Edge Educational Resources
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44min
August 17, 2021 Data-Driven Smart Manufacturing
A Silicon Valley rising star advocates higher efficiency in electronics manufacturing.
In this episode, Andrew Scheuermann, CEO, and Co-founder of Arch, shares his company’s mission to drive digitization and sustainable innovation in electronics manufacturing. He will discuss Surface Mount Technology machine optimization and how factories can benefit from advanced analytics.
Altium 365: Where the World Designs Electronics
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Show Highlights:
Introduction to Andrew and the founding of Arch Systems
Understanding the founders, Andrew Scheuermann and Tim Burke’s experimentalist and theoretical personas, respectively
The key to finding their niche
Starting Startx - top 5 startup in the world
Platform mindset - software and hardware technology that could be deployed to any kind of machine
Become a world expert in Surface Mount Technology (SMT) machines
Industrial Automation, how does software makes the world go round?
Opportunity identified for SMT industrial control automation and useable, meaningful data
Data-driven, smart manufacturing
In-depth analytics-getting data out of legacy machines
Digital Proof of concept, why is this valuable?
20 - 40 or even 60 percent improvement in manufacturing efficiency
Predicted quality, 99% OK what do you do with the 1%?
How do you get data out of the machine and translate them into meaningful solutions?
Universal translation, aggregation, data security
Andrew explains ArchFX broker being deployed on-premise
The benefits of advanced analytics - Improved Quality, reliability, speed, better-increased margins, Informed CapX spend
Links and Resources:
Arch Systems WebsiteArch Systems Overview VideoThe ArchFX Platform: The Proven Fast Track to Transformation
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46min
August 10, 2021 Bogatin’s “Practical Guide to” Book Series
The dean is in!
In this episode, Eric Bogatin, the Dean of Signal Integrity Academy is here to talk about empowering PCB designers to become their own experts. Eric shares the inspiration behind his new book, PLUS you may have a say in what he will be writing next.
Watch now or listen on the go, and make sure to drop a comment on our YouTube channel here, to vote on which topic Eric should tackle in his next book.
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Show Highlights:
Out of this world (literally) storytime, Eric shares facts about the Crab Nebula Supernova
Two Books from Artech, the inspiration behind Eric Bogatins “Practical Guide To...”Bogatin’s Practical Guide to Transmission Line Design and Characterization for Signal Integrity Applications
Bogatin's Practical Guide to Prototype Breadboard and PCB Design
What does it take to successfully build a prototype
The important focus in Eric’s classes and booksthe introduction to the signal integrity of switching noise
how do you design circuit boards for connectivity
“I don’t like throwing rules” - Eric Bogatin
Quick Poll, which book do you want Eric to write?Compilation of All Eric's Rules of Thumb
Hacking interconnects using S-parameters
How to Use an Oscilloscope
Check out more resources authored by Eric on Signal Integrity Academy and Signal Integrity Journal
What is a Turbo Encabulator?
OnTrack Virtual Bookclub
News about AltiumLive 2021
Links and Resources:
Bogatin’s Practical Guide to Transmission Line Design and Characterization for Signal Integrity ApplicationsNew Book (Pre-order): Bogatin's Practical Guide to Prototype Breadboard and PCB DesignJoin our “Virtual” OnTrack community Book Club on Amazon!Eric’s Author page on Amazon.comSubscribe to Signal Integrity Journal
Full OnTrack Podcast LibraryAltium WebsiteDownload your Altium Designer Free Trial

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