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August 2021 VOL. 5 No. 2   Full Article | Watch Video | Brain Food AltiumLive is Back...Save the Date! Altium is excited to announce that AltiumLive is back! There’s been many exciting and challenging things going on behind the scenes, here at Altium, that’s...

Sending a board out for fabrication is an exciting and nerve-wracking moment. Many sleepless nights have resulted from an initial fabrication run, and it’s important to ensure everything is reviewed, re-reviewed, and can pass a DFM inspection! If you need to get a design into fabrication, one of the important pieces of documentation you can create is a fabrication drawing. Inside this drawing, you’ll need to include PCB fabrication notes that...

AltiumLive is Back..and Better than Ever! Altium is happy to announce that AltiumLive is back! Many of you have been eagerly waiting to hear about our plan for our annual users conference that typically takes place in October. For a variety of reasons, including the shifting landscape of public health conditions, we have moved AltiumLive San Diego to January 26-28, 2022.  In an all new and expanded format, AltiumLive will be a hybrid conference...

AltiumLive 2022 and IPC Apex 2022 are joining forces to bring together all stakeholders in the PCB industry. We have two executives joining us in this episode. Our very own Chief Ecosystem Officer and head of Altium Nexar, Ted Pawela; and IPC’s Vice President of Standards and Technology, Dave Bergman. They will share with us some exciting news about the most anticipated exhibits in the PCB community.   Listen to the Podcast: Download this...

Most designers that work with a bench-top power supply are likely using an isolated regulated (switching) PSU that plugs into the wall. Everything needed to provide stable power at a specific DC or AC level, and with relatively low noise is built into the unit, and you as the designer don’t really have to do anything except connect some leads to the board. Unfortunately, real systems with integrated power sections, or even just power regulator...

As engineers, we make decisions about whether to buy or build all the time. If we need an amplifier or some kind of signal processing circuit, we look for ready-made integrated circuits (ICs) with high-level functionality, respectable performance, and reasonable price. However, if there isn’t an obvious “buy” solution, we split our circuit into smaller segments and design at a more localized level. But, we will only go so far; we don’t choose to...

Shock resistant PCB connectors are essential in many applications that require high-reliability, such as aerospace or medical equipment. There are many connectors that are engineered to be shock resistant so that they maintain a constant electrical connection during operation, but what’s the best way to locate these connectors for use in your PCB layout? The supply chain and component creation features in Altium Designer can help you find the...

When designing, it can be extremely helpful to create a rule and apply it to a certain area of a board. For instance, automatically necking down traces when routing into the region of a BGA or keeping tall z-axis components constrained to a specific area. Rooms can also be used to duplicate component placement and routing on a multi-channel design.  Watch this recording to learn how you can best utilize rooms for your designs, we’ll go over how...

Kinetic Vision, a Cincinnati-based design, engineering, and development firm, is an innovator’s one-stop shop for transforming even the wildest ideas into real products. The company’s design approach keeps everything in-house, including industrial design, mechanical, and electrical design, as well as, engineering, hardware/software development, machine learning, visual communication media, prototyping, and sometimes even short-run production. Kin...