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IPC CEO John Mitchell on the Impact of COVID-19 on the Electronics Supply Chain The SARS-CoV-2 crisis has had an unprecedented impact on the electronics industry. Here, Dr. Mitchell discusses the IPC’s role in mitigating those industry-wide effects. Read Article
1:0:36 PCB Design in Altium Designer with Differential Data Transfer with Ben Jordan Differential data transmission lines usage can be challenging for even experienced designers. First you need to be familiar with the Watch Video
49:26 Altium 365: Working Efficiently As a Team Working together as a design team is fundamental, especially with ever-increasing complexity, ECAD/MCAD interaction, pressures on shortened development cycles and Watch Video
Impedance Calculation - Guide For Altium Designer Download the impedance calculation guide for Altium Designer whitepaper above. Download PDF
PCB Design for Radio-Over-Fiber Technology It’s possible that radio-over-fiber technology is one of the least discussed aspects of fiber telecom networks. However, it stands to be one of the many portions of telecom infrastructure for bringing broadband wireless access to remote areas. This approach is likely to play a major role for future 5G infrastructure in rural areas where a standard wireless backhaul is not possible or cost-prohibitive. Just like any other electronic system, radio Read Article
How to Manage a Remote Team for Electronics Design Collaboration with your remote design team takes the right management tools. Here’s how to manage a remote team with Altium Concord Pro. Read Article
Important Thermal Properties of PCB Substrate Materials Signal integrity isn’t the full story, the thermal properties of your PCB substrate materials are also important for reliability. Read Article
44:30 Altium 365: Release to Manufacturing Watch Video
37:20 Efficient PCB Routing Using Gloss and Retrace Tools The primary goal of your traces is to carry signals throughout your board without losses. To do this properly, you Watch Video
A Message from Altium on COVID-19 At Altium, the health and well-being of our employees, customers, partners, and communities are our top priority. We understand the concerns and uncertainty you may be experiencing surrounding the coronavirus (COVID-19), and our team remains committed to being responsive to the needs of our community as the situation evolves. We are taking several precautionary measures to minimize the potential impact of coronavirus to our communities and our Read Article
Rogers Corporation: The Company Behind Top Performing Laminates If you design PCBs for high-speed digital, RF, Microwave or Millimeter Wave applications, you’re probably very familiar with Roger’s laminates. However, did you know Rogers Corp has doubled in size in the past 10 years? Recently, while I was at IPC APEX Expo, I had the opportunity to interview Tony Mattingly, Sr. Product Manager and learn more about the company behind some of the world’s top-performing advanced circuit materials. Judy Warner Read Article
New Altium Designer Home Page and Learning Program With every release, we try to make our users more productive in what they do every day. One way to achieve this is to keep improving the product, and we will, of course, continue to focus on that. What we realized, however, is that many of our users don't fully take advantage of all the capabilities already available in Altium Designer. We have a lot of users who are just starting with Altium Designer, but even some of our experienced users do Read Article
29:18 Tips & Tricks: Board Shape Creation Being able to design a board in your ECAD environment doesn’t mean that it is manufacturable in real life. You Watch Video
31:31 Transmission Line Impedance Calculation With Altium Designer 20 Today’s PCBs contain many transmission lines. Combine this with increased clock frequencies and data rates and the result is a critical challenge to high-speed design. Neglecting these dynamics can undermine product development by compromising performance, power consumption, EMC/EMI compliance, and more - leading to delayed design cycles and opening gaps that can be exploited by your competition. Hone your high-speed design skills by joining us as we discuss the typical transmission lines encountered in today’s designs, the PCB variables that affect impedance, as well as how to create, calculate, and design transmission lines in Altium Designer. Learn how to maximize the built in SIMBEOR® engine by Simberian to craft impedance profiles and manage transmission lines in your designs. This Live Webinar recording covers the following: Current trends in electronics development PCB transmission line model and impedance calculations Transmission line with specified impedance in Altium Designer Don’t pass up on this opportunity to experience the industry’s best in class design experience! Watch Video
18:27 Product Overview: Altium Concord Pro There are many risks if your library and component data are not managed efficiently and effectively. Inefficiency occurs when multiple Watch Video
39:33 ECAD-MCAD CoDesign with Altium CoDesigner Modern devices have dense layouts in shrinking enclosures. Fitting and mounting a PCB into an enclosure while taking cooling, cabling Watch Video
New Engineering Mini-Documentary Series: Altium Stories Too often, in the pursuit of healthy success and growth, it’s tempting for companies to talk about its products or services too much, and their customer’s success too little. While Altium may certainly fall into this all-too-common trap at times, we truly draw our greatest inspiration from innovative engineers like you, who are impacting the world everyday. For this reason, we have decided instead of telling our story, we are going to start Read Article