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In these days of easily available internet and quarantines, everyone is working remotely. It’s nice being able to spend time with family and regain control over your schedule, but keeping track of projects and revisions while securing user access feels like its own job. With the right set of project and data management tools, you can easily share your data with collaborators without tracking email chains. With the sharing and collaboration...

The challenges faced by today’s designers are rapidly increasing in scope and complexity. This leaves less time to properly organize, manage, and share the design data they create. Typically, unless they have access to dedicated IT resources, they are left with a choice. They can either implement and maintain an ECAD data management system themselves or forgo the advantages of proper data management and live with the potential for errant design...

When I started using my Altium 365 Workspace for collaboration, I found I could make things run more smoothly when I kept things organized. However, I prevented any issues thanks to all the organization tools built into the Explorer panel within Altium Designer. Let’s take a look at how you can get the most value out of your Altium 365 Workspace in terms of organization and access management. What Is an Altium 365 Workspace? If it’s your first...

Last year’s list of holiday gift ideas was a fan favorite, so we had to go and do it again. Now that the holidays are here, we asked the Altium community, Altium employees, and my LinkedIn connections their favorite geeky gift ideas. These ideas are for everyone from the engineers in your family to friends and work colleagues. Hopefully, we won’t all be spending the holidays Zooming with our families under a fresh set of lockdowns, but just in...

Earlier this year, I wrote an article on the various iterations of double data rate (DDR) memory and, specifically, the differences between DDR3 and DDR4. Following the introduction of the first DDR memory back in 1998, successive iterations of DDR have been delivered to the market always to improve two key features: data bandwidth and data speed. DDR5 is now on the horizon, and it offers significant benefits over the previous version, DDR4.  Th...

Don’t let your time get wasted during PCB design collaboration. Try these strategies and tools instead. An essential aspect of project management is time management, especially when your design team is working remotely. Your time management strategy is team-based and individual, but time can easily get spent on important tasks when working as part of a team. So how can you streamline important collaboration tasks for your design team to increase...

The challenges faced by today’s designers are rapidly increasing in scope and complexity. This leaves less time to properly organize, manage, and share the design data they create. Typically, unless they have access to dedicated IT resources, they are left with a choice. They can either implement and maintain an ECAD data management system themselves or forgo the advantages of proper data management and live with the potential for errant design...

Rules and constraints can impact design performance in high-speed signal busses, manufacturability, and other end-product considerations including mechanical enclosure design. Creating proper rules to drive the PCB layout can be a challenge. This challenge must be overcome to verify that your design meets specific manufacturing guidelines and ensure you have complete control over your board’s physical requirements. This on-demand webinar will...

To get started with revision control in Altium 365, please read this article about Project History. While you can still use the method below, we recommend checking out Project History for the latest and greatest.  Ever since I started using Github and Google Docs, I fell in love with revision control. Instead of keeping multiple copies of essential files and time-stamping every revision, revision tracking information gets stored alongside the...