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BGA Fanout Routing
How many times have you attempted to route into a BGA, only to be prevented by clearance and track width constraints? This is a time-consuming process in most design software, but Altium Designer has the tools you need to make this process easy. Rather than spending time manually modifying track widths in your BGA routing strategy, Altium Designer allows you to implement neck-down as you route into your BGA. You’ll also have a complete set of
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Altium WP Design Data Management Pt1
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Data Management - Pain Point Assessment
It’s that phase of the project when you’re about to hand over a development released product to production. From the development perspective, everything, from designs, parts, models, BOMs, and documentation, are all in their release state. It’s a time that calls for a true celebration after weeks of sleepless nights to finish the design on time and within budget. Then you get the flash back with few what-if questions; did sourcing get the new
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The 4 Challenges to Transforming Data Management and Documentation into Designs
To learn more about this topic please see the full solution - The 4 Challenges to Transforming Data Management and Documentation into Designs - at Altium.com.
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Solving Modern PCB Layout Challenges
PCB technology advances are a two-edged sword. They have increased the power and applicability of electronics. But they also make PCB layout more difficult, raising the risk of longer time-to-market cycles and higher product costs. Designers can mitigate these risks by using a unified PCB layout software package that provides the automation necessary to bring products to market quickly and on-budget. INTRODUCTION “Honey, I shrunk the kids.” “It’s
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Team Collaboration and PCB Design VT
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ECAD Design Data Release Management
There is no question that many of the our recent technological advancements, have been in fact within the communication realm! From the internet, cell phones, satellites, Facebook, and so on, it’s all been geared for us to easily communicate and collaborate. However, with all this technology in the palm of our hands, many companies today still struggle communicating their ECAD data releases. Whether it is to internally collaborate with peers and
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The Challenges Of Library Management
While there are many paths that can lead to a product failure, such as the challenge of managing a globally dispersed team, undeveloped development processes, working with multiple tools, and poor collaboration, one particular issue should be among the top priorities for any business to tackle: ECAD data library management system problems and solutions. DEFICIENT MANAGEMENT DATA, A HUGE PROBLEM No one questions the reality of electronics
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Customize BOM Reports for Consistent Documentation
Learn how to clearly communicate proper board assembly with multiple variants with BOM customization in Altium Designer. Upon completion of a design, the project enters the assembly process where the assemblers and/or purchasers rely on trustworthy documentation to provide a list of components, materials, and parts necessary to produce the board design. This document, called the bill of materials (BOM), lists all of the required materials needed
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Teardrops Improve Your PCB Quality and Yield
Learn how to improve the quality and yield of your PCB during manufacturing with teardrops. If you have even one printed circuit board design under your belt, you have probably been exposed to unexpected problems that are discovered during the fabrication or manufacturing process. Manufacturing problems can be caused by misaligned holes or have undesirable drill breakouts. Even if they don’t cause the board to be rejected, they can lead to
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Unleash Your Creativity — With Training
Learn how to use neck-downs in Altium Designer to simplify your BGA routing process by shrinking and expanding tracks as they enter specific areas on your PCB. When you train decreases your errors range and expand your creative capacity. And this get better when you do the right choice selecting able people to training. Beyond that, the personal satisfaction of creating better, more reliable products is just plain fun! After all, didn’t you
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5 Ways to Customize Altium Designer for Better Efficiency
The Altium Designer
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environment is designed to be very intuitive, but even slight customization of the interface can greatly enhance the efficiency of your PCB design workflow. Once you have been using Altium Designer or a while, you'll find the toolbar menu structure to be very intuitive. However, you may realize even more productivity gains with customization of the user interface. Customization is centric to each editor whether it's the
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Quickly Find and Edit Objects Using Global Queries
Every designer faces significant challenges once a board gets overpopulated with parts and traces. One of the greatest tasks of working with complex electronic designs is managing a large number of design objects. PCB or schematic filtering lets you find a “needle in a haystack” when you need to. Often, when you are working with schematics or PCB documents, you need to select objects of a given type, or that possess some common attribute
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Group Components into Rooms for More Efficient Layout
The key to properly managing your component placements and traces is to utilize different techniques of grouping objects together rather than individually modifying each individual object. A lot of users hate the idea of having to individually bring a component to the board layout. This paper details what Altium Designer can do to make layout management easier and less time consuming, allowing you to meet your project deadlines. INTRODUCTION TO
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Quickly Create Project Libraries from the Schematic
Learn how to quickly create project libraries from the schematic for easy external sharing using the Parameter Manager in Altium Designer. When you are using an outside manufacturer, or sharing a design with another party that does not have access to your internal installed libraries, creating a project library makes the data easy to share. No matter how you created your library — from already installed libraries, Altium Vault libraries, or even
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Pack More Complexity into a Smaller Footprint Using HDI
Learn how you can keep up with smaller PCB form factors by using high-density interconnect (HDI) techniques in your next PCB design project. To learn more about this topic please see the full solution - How to Pack More Complexity into a Smaller Footprint Using HDI - at Altium.com.
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Confidently Capture All Design Details in PCB Design Documentation
The design document must capture all aspects of the design of a system. This includes the specification, design intent, design process and traceability back to the specification. Only then can the designer be confident that all relevant design information has been captured in one place. This paper is meant to be a guideline to prompt you to consider how to capture design details beyond the fabrication and assembly drawings. INTRODUCTION One of
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