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Altium Develop provides a workspace where users can manage projects, component data, and design activities. Initial setup typically involves activating the workspace, connecting Altium Designer, and becoming familiar with the browser-based interface. The tutorials below walk through each of these steps in the order most new users will encounter them.01 - Activate a Workspace in an Altium Develop Account:  This storylane guides account...

Altium Agile Teams provides a shared cloud workspace where engineering teams can manage projects, component data, workspace members, and collaborative design activities. Initial setup typically involves activating the workspace, connecting Altium Designer, becoming familiar with the browser-based interface, and configuring user access. The tutorials below walk through each of these steps in the order most new teams will encounter them. 01 -...

Bring Your Problem:  Leave With a Solution.Join our live weekly sessions and get answers directly from our experts.Whether you're exploring collaborative cloud workflows, managing design reviews through the web interface, or looking to get more value from Altium Develop and Altium Agile Teams, these interactive sessions are designed to help you move forward faster.Each session is limited to 10 attendees to ensure a more focused, interactive...

Your bill of materials decides how much e-waste a product creates long before it ever reaches a recycling plant. On this episode of the CTRL+Listen Podcast, James Sweetlove talks with Ian Levoi, founder of Selectronyx, about why circularity starts at component selection, how unplanned obsolescence and "end-of-life surprises" force costly redesigns, and why repairability should be treated as a design specification.Ian draws on years as a systems...

Sometimes, a hardware design can look completely right on the test bench: the MCU runs at a stable 160 MHz, sensors communicate over I²C, and the power supply holds 12 V under full load. But a product that meets every requirement can still fall short once it reaches the user.Verification and validation (V&V) address the gap between meeting the requirements and meeting the real-world need. Some hardware teams mix up these two terms. Teams that...

While standard schematic and layout reviews ensure electrical viability, true hardware success demands validation far beyond the PCB designer’s traditional purview. A board with flawless signal integrity is useless if it violates enclosure z-axis heights, cooks its own components, or ships with swapped pins.To prevent these late-stage failures, multidisciplinary engineering teams must abandon sequential handoffs and integrate mechanical, thermal...

PCB design and assembly standards aren’t there to constrain your productivity. Instead, they’re there to help create uniform expectations of product designs and performance across multiple industries. With standardization comes the tools for compliance, such as calculators for certain design aspects, processes for auditing and inspection, and much more. In high voltage PCB design, the important generic standard for PCB design is IPC-2221. Many...

Making an ASIC the traditional way is no easy task, but now designers can take control of their component designs with programmable logic. There are three options for designing ASICs: CPLDs, FPGAs, or mixed-signal processors. These three approaches allow a designer to essentially create a custom processor which can even be programmed on the fly. If none of the available off-the-shelf component options work for your system, which type of...

As an engineer wearing many hats, I recently put on my firmware cap and tested out the Renesas GreenPAK Programmable Mixed Signal Kit and was rather intrigued. While I’ve dabbled a bit in mixed signal design, I tend to over-engineer solutions with microcontrollers and FPGAs in preference to designing a brand new circuit. Simple clock dividers become complex software. Power sequencing becomes power “state machines” with eventual software overhead...