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Experienced fabricators will tell you: that any design could have some hidden Design for Manufacturing (DFM) report view problem that will interfere with manufacturability, quality, or yield. Making use of your design rules is just the start of preventing DFM report problems, you’ll want to collaborate with your manufacturer throughout the design process if you want to spot and correct DFM problems. Within Altium Designer, there are multiple...

Managing your team's data is not just about the actual data itself, even if you're a team of one. You also need to account for how your design information will flow through the data structure you’ve set up, as well as maintaining the integrity of that structure. This can actually be very easy to set up and manage. Join our webinar this week to learn how Altium 365 can assist you to: Configure lifecycle management Use a part requests...

These days, you probably don’t think of IBM as a major force in the PCB industry. IBM has made a big push into cloud and has not received much love from the electronics industry. However, the company known for their mainframes, servers, Watson, and AI capabilities is making waves in the high-speed design community with their recent results presented at IPC APEX 2021. The paper presented by a team of three IBM researchers looks at ways to reduce...

If you take a look at any guidelines on sizing and calculating the width for controlled impedance traces, you’ll clearly see that the trace width is calculated without any ground to pour near the trace. However, most designers (and basic PCB layout guidelines) will state that unused areas on each PCB layer should be filled in with grounded copper pour. There is an obvious contradiction here that is not so well discussed in the PCB design...

SMD modules like the ESP32-WROOM or Raspberry Pi Pico microcontroller board use a particular mounting style called castellation PCB. If you look at these modules, it should be evident how castellated holes PCBs can be used to mount a PCB module as an SMD component. These small modules are becoming more popular and are simple to work with, but they might look a bit specialized for use in the standard PCB fabrication process. While modules with...

Managing your team's data is not just about the actual data itself, even if you're a team of one. You also need to account for how your design information will flow through the data structure you’ve set up, as well as maintaining the integrity of that structure. This can actually be very easy to set up and manage. Watch this video to to see how Altium 365 can help you: Configure lifecycle management Use a part requests and component...

Managing your team's data is not just about the actual data itself, even if you're a team of one. You also need to account for how your design information will flow through the data structure you’ve set up, as well as maintaining the integrity of that structure. This can actually be very easy to set up and manage. Watch this video to to see how Altium 365 can help you: Configure lifecycle management Use a part requests and component...

Managing your team's data is not just about the actual data itself, even if you're a team of one. You also need to account for how your design information will flow through the data structure you’ve set up, as well as maintaining the integrity of that structure. This can actually be very easy to set up and manage. Watch this video to to see how Altium 365 can help you: Configure lifecycle management Use a part requests and component...

In this Ontrack episode, Altium’s Chief Ecosystem Officer, Ted Pawela, and Altium’s Chief Software Architect, Leigh Gawne, join us to give us information about the launching of Nexar. Who is Nexar for? What’s the vision behind it and the strategy (the Why) of this new business unit? They explain how Nexar addresses critical needs for design engineers and delivers direct and frictionless access to the entire ecosystem of electronics tools and...