The Sky is the Middle

People say "The sky is the limit" when they mean "We can do anything we want or imagine." But add space exploration and the sky is no longer the limit. That's a bit beyond blue sky.

We Can Handle Any Technology

Printed circuit boards we have designed at Golden Gate Graphics have at one time or another found their way onto space exploration rockets, including one pointed at the planet Mercury, the space shuttle and space-to-ground communications systems. They have been used to implement the electronics in everything from battery monitoring systems in drone helicopters to chip factories. They have been in airplane navigation radio systems, telescope tracking systems and geophysical probes.

From outer space to underground, we cover the scope of technology. That's why we can say at Golden Gate Graphics: "The Sky is the Middle."

Of course we just laid-out the printed circuit board artwork. The real geniuses are the electrical engineers we work with. Our artwork merely helped to implement their visions by making them manufacturable. We would like to work with you in your next dreamscape.

Example Printed Circuit Boards Designed by Golden Gate Graphics

The pictures below include actual boards and design views. The 3D capabilities of Altium Designer 24 and earlier not only include export of 3D models of the entire board, but also design rule checking of placement using both horizontal and vertical clearance constraints. To our knowledge, this is currently the only PCB design software capable of using 3D bodies in real-time clearance checking.

We typically make the 3D models in our component footprints translucent so that we can see what is underneath them.

Read more on techniques we use in 3D modeling to get designs to come out right.

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• In the center of the figure above, you can see the 3D axes in red blue and green. This is the origin of the PCB file. Using the center for the origin works best with round boards. With Altium Designer you can implement polar coordinates indirectly, as long as you know the formulas for converting cartesian to polar.
• To convert Cartesian coordinates (x, y) to polar coordinates (r, θ), use the formulas: r = √(x² + y²) and θ = arctan(y / x).

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• Some of our 3D bodies are translucent. Altium Designer allows one to adjust the level of transparency of 3d bodies. Thus, the bodies still function for real-time three-dimensional clearance checking and allow us to see what is underneath them.
• 3D Modeling Example

  

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• Halo system boards for Trillium DUT (Device Under Test) for testing in chip manufacturing plant.

• For more information see DUT Halo/Daughter Card System

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