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April 25, 2025

ONTRACK BI-WEEKLY

Leading Insights

Tariffs Go Into Effect in April 2025

Tariffs and geopolitical shifts go into effect and disrupt global trade; multiple industries are bracing for long-term structural changes and scrambling to move supply bases.

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Will AI in Supply Chains Help Navigate New Challenges?

AI adoption accelerates in electronics supply chain management and procurement, enhancing efficiency, forecasting, and agility.

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EMS Demand Rebounds From January Slump

March shows rising electronics manufacturing demand, signaling potential sustained growth across the industry.

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ECIA Projects Stable April Parts Demand

Despite global trade policy disruptions, ECIA’s March 2025 ECST reveals continued sales optimism with stable outlook for April.

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New Fiber Comms Support AI Growth

Optical Fiber Communications Conference and Exhibition (OFC) 2025 highlights 1.6T networking breakthroughs for next-gen optical and data infrastructure.

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Customer Success

Student Engineers Build Life‑Saving UAV

The Monash Uncrewed Aerial Systems student team develops drones for humanitarian purposes. In developing their custom boards, they leverage Altium Designer, MCAD CoDesigner, and Altium 365 to collaborate effortlessly across multidisciplinary engineering teams, track revision history, and learn the key aspects of PCB design in a real-world scenario.

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Trending Resources

Latest Design Resources

Getting Started with NVMe and the Raspberry Pi 5

By Ari Mahpour

Raspberry Pi is massively popular, and the new Pi 5 can benefit from adding high-capacity storage with an NVMe SSD. If you need a quick embedded deployment with high-capacity storage, this demo project shows how to set up your Pi 5 with an NVMe HAT.

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Latest Design Resources

Wire Harness Design Guide for Development and Manufacturing

By Krishna Sundaram

Learn the key steps in designing and manufacturing wire harnesses—from planning and component selection to prototyping and production. This guide also explores emerging trends like smart harnesses and automation.

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FROM THE VAULT

CAN-Bus: The Protocol and Tutorial

By David Bortolami

Learn everything you ever wanted to know about CAN bus in this article. David provides a comprehensive overview of the data format, protocol operations, and functionality in some example components.

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FROM THE VAULT

Is It Printed or a Component? All About PCB Test Points

By Zachariah Peterson

PCB test points aren’t just for prototype boards, they are common features implemented in PCB layouts at all stages of the development cycle. This article outlines usage of test points as printed pads and solderable components.

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ONTRACK PODCAST

Libraries: Who Needs ‘em?

Altium’s own Kristen Aguiar joins Zach on the OnTrack podcast to discuss her upcoming talk on PCB libraries at PCB East. There’s no chance of PCB libraries going away anytime soon, so design teams need a clear process to build and maintain an internal standard for their CAD data.

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New Videos and Tutorials

Overview: Zero Trust Security Implementation for Electronics Design

Discover how Zero Trust security implementation can safeguard your valuable electronics design data in the cloud. In this comprehensive overview, we break down the "never trust, always verify" approach, explaining why traditional parameter-based security is no longer sufficient for modern design teams.

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Custom Ethernet Switch Powers Up: Assembly to Working Hardware Test

Zach shows power-on testing, flashing, serial communication, and in-rack testing for the custom Gigabit+fiber Ethernet switch project based on the VSC7426 + VSC8572/VSC8664 chipset.

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Power & Signal Analyzer Bundle

by Keysight

As a trusted leader in simulation technology, Keysight has partnered with Altium to bring powerful analysis tools directly into your PCB design workflow. With the Signal & Power Analyzer Bundle, you can quickly evaluate signal integrity and power delivery performance right from the PCB.

Easily detect issues like Impedance mismatches, signal delays, voltage drops, current densities, and more! Integrated directly within Altium Designer, this bundle helps you design with confidence, reduce rework, and meet performance benchmarks with ease.

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