OnTrack: The PCB Design Podcast

PCB Grounding Mistakes Your Datasheet Taught You

PCB grounding mistakes rarely start with the designer; they start in the datasheet, the app note, and the reference design that gets copied straight into production. On t

AI PCB Routing Without the Epic Fails: Inside DeepPCB

AI PCB routing only works when the tool understands your design intent, and in this OnTrack Podcast episode Zach Peterson sits down with Alain-Sam Cohen and Nabil Chouba

PCB Assembly Mistakes Designers Keep Making: PCB West 2026 Preview

PCB assembly mistakes rarely start on the factory floor; they start in layout, and in this OnTrack Podcast episode three assembly-side veterans explain exactly which ones

The Custom Power Chip You Configure Yourself: Power GreenPAK

Designing a custom power chip used to mean an ASIC budget and a year of NRE, but Renesas Power GreenPAK lets you configure one at your desk in minutes. In this OnTrack Po

AI PCB Design: Turning a 100-Page Spec Into an MCU Shortlist

Marco Witzmann, Head of Requirements Portal at Altium, returns to the Altium OnTrack Podcast to show host Zach Peterson what the tool formerly known as Requirements Manag

Altium Is Coming Home to the Designer | Lawrence Romine on OnTrack

Altium Develop brings the full Altium Designer experience — plus multi-board and harness design and cloud collaboration — to individual designers and small teams, without

DDR Compliance Simulation in Seconds, Not Days

On this episode of the Altium OnTrack Podcast, host Zach Peterson talks with Ben Dannan, founder of Signal Edge Solutions and DesignCon Engineer of the Year, and Tyler Hu

Mayan-on-Chip: Training Mexico's Next Semiconductor Engineers

How does a region build a semiconductor and electronics workforce from the ground up? In this episode of the Altium OnTrack Podcast, host Zach Peterson sits down with Nas

Altium API Deep Dive: Opening PCB Data to Developers

In this episode of the Altium OnTrack Podcast, host Zach Peterson sits down with Rob Barton, Head of Platform API at Altium, for a deep dive into how programmatic access

Code-Based PCB Design with AI: Inside atopile

Code-based PCB design is reshaping how engineers build hardware, and in this OnTrack Podcast episode, host Zach Peterson sits down with Ioannis Papamanoglou and Narayan P

EMC Testing in the Age of AI: Why Respins Aren't Going Away

EMC testing is one of the toughest hurdles in PCB design, with industry pass rates often falling below 50% and every failure triggering expensive respins. In this OnTrack

70% of PCBs FAIL EMC Testing (And AI Is Making It Worse)

Altium Develop unites your design, sourcing, and manufacturing teams in one cloud platform so EMC and layout problems get caught long before your board ever reaches the t

The Signal Integrity Tool Every Engineer Is Missing

Signal integrity engineers working on high-speed serial links, Ethernet, USB, PCI Express, and DDR memory interfaces need powerful simulation tools, but commercial softwa

Drones, Robots & the Low-Altitude Economy: A New Industry Is Born

In this episode of the OnTrack Podcast, Zach Peterson sits down with Gabriel Guglielmi, VP of Global Product Management at Infinite Electronics, to explore one of the mos

PCB Metrology Gap: How SCAN Labs Is Automating Microsectioning

The PCB industry has long relied on manual microsectioning to verify board quality — but as densities increase and skilled labor becomes harder to retain, that process is

High-Speed Interconnects for AI & Physical AI with Samtec

What does it take to design interconnects for AI data centers pushing 112G, 224G, and even 448G? In this episode of the Altium OnTrack Podcast, host Zach Peterson sits do

Altium File Parsing, AI Design Reviews & PCB Viz Tools

What if you could parse your Altium project files from the command line, generate a full BOM in seconds, extract net lists as AI-readable JSON, and spin up a 3D HTML view

Is FPGA the Best Engineering Career? With Adam Taylor

Is FPGA engineering the best career path for electronics engineers today? In this episode of the Altium OnTrack Podcast, host Zach Peterson sits down with Adam Taylor — f

IPC 2221 vs. 2152: The Truth About PCB Trace Current Ratings

Altium Develop gives your entire team real-time visibility into PCB designs, supply chain data, and manufacturing feedback — so thermal and power decisions never get made

GreenPAK for Automotive: Reliability, Integration & Real-World Demos

Altium Develop gives your entire electronics team — engineers, procurement, and manufacturers — real-time visibility into your PCB designs and supply chain, all in one pl