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Use the Best Circuit Drawing Software With SPICE and Schematic Capture
Use the best circuit schematic editor to create your next electronic design and start your PCB layout.
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Best Practices for DNI/DNP Components in Your PCB BOM
You can use the DNI/DNP designation on components in your PCB BOM to create design variants as long as you’ve created your layout correctly.
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The Best PCB Design Software Downloads
There are many PCB design software packages available for download or purchase. Newer designers and startups who are just starting out will likely build up their skills from a free software program just to get to a proof of concept and initial design of a prototype. Once a design has been proven and it is time to design for a real product, a new designer or startup startup company will need to make the switch over to a paid software package. To
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Altium Designer Helps You Track Reference Designators on Your PCB
Make sure you use the correct reference designators in your PCB and in your drawings, schematic sheets, and circuit board layout.
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Upgrade from AutoCAD PCB Design Software to Altium Designer's Unified Environment
Most designers are familiar with AutoCAD electrical PCB design software for mechanical or construction drafting, and for making important engineering diagrams. AutoCAD PCB design is great for many tasks involved in electrical or mechanical engineering, but PCB designers need more than mechanical drafting tools to make advanced electronics. To get your designs to the next level, you need the best set of ECAD tools on the market, rather than using
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The Anatomy of Your Schematic Netlist, Ports, and Net Names
Your schematic netlist will create the link between components as you build your schematic sheets. See how your schematic sheets enable usage of net names and ports to help you stay organized.
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What is Schematic Capture?
All designs start with creating schematic sheets for your circuits. Learn more about what is schematic capture in our guide for new engineers.
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Pi Filter Designs for Power Supplies
In this article, Expert Mark Harris will be looking at the low-pass filter arrangement. He will cover basic principles all the way to design constraints. Read now to learn more.
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An Overview of Dual Power Supply Design
In this article, you will learn about the numerous types and configurations for designing PCB with a dual power supply. Mark Harris included bonus design tips.
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Designing for the FPGA Pin Mapper
It is a well-known fact that FPGA IO names must meet specific syntax requirements in Verilog or VHDL. The naming convention used in Altium Designer schematics doesn’t always meet these criteria specified by the hardware description languages (HDL). As a result, there can often be a mismatch between PCB net names and the actual FPGA signal names. As more users experiment with the FPGA Pin Mapper tool in Altium Designer, they will discover that the
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Get the Most From Switching Your Power Supply Design Software to Altium
Power supplies can be difficult to design and layout as they require attention to safety and efficiency. Everything from isolation to thermal management needs to be considered in these systems, and designers need to have a complete set of design features to create reliable power supplies. In addition, power supplies tend to have mechanical constraints imposed by the enclosure, and these need to be considered when creating a PCB layout for a power
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Complete Power Supply Filter Design and Simulation Guide
A PCB for a power supply can be as difficult to design as high-speed networking equipment and complex embedded systems. These circuit board designs need to account for a range of behaviors and safety requirements, especially when dealing with high voltages and currents reaching the output of the power supply. In addition to safety standards involved in power supply PCBs, component selection is critical for ensuring the design can provide the
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Switching Power Supply Output Filter: Design and Simulation
SPICE packages can help you design a switching power supply output filter bby looking at transient response results and running parameter sweeps.
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Guide to Transient Analysis in SPICE Simulations for Electronics
The best SPICE simulation tools will make transient analysis easy. Learn more about transient analysis in circuit design in this article.
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Easy Schematics Creation for Elegance and Readability
Exemplary schematics will show you the circuits plus everything you need to know about them at a glance. Poor schematics will force you to decipher them to glean a sufficient understanding of what the circuits do.
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Best Practices for Using PCB Reference Designs
Reference designs can help you get started building a new system, but watch out for these pitfalls if you plan to use reference designs for your PCB.
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PCB Footprint Creation and Reuse with Altium 365
Many components come in standardized packages, but not all component manufacturers provide CAD models and schematic symbols in their PCB libraries. These CAD models show the location of pins, silkscreen information, centroids, and pads as they should appear in your PCB layout. PCB component creation can get repetitive when you need to apply an existing PCB footprint to a new component. With the component creation tools in Altium Designer and the
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