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Getting your PCB layout design done takes patience and precision. Complex footprint geometries, board shape, and dense component placement require accurate primitive positioning. Each stage of PCB design needs a different snapping configuration. Often your settings can be excellent fit for one stage and be unfavorable for another. For example, good snapping settings for your board outline can make routing almost impossible. Learn more about...

In 2015, Altium released Altium CircuitStudio® to best meet the needs of casual users, hobbyists, students, and PCB design aficionados on a budget. The program helped further Altium’s goal of advancing the electronic design industry, offering the community a straight-forward schematic capture and project management tool combined with a powerful PCB design engine that supports 3D PCB editing at an accessible price. A New Life for An Old...

We've been asked by everyone from customers to AltiumLive attendees to employees for real, branded Altium merchandise for years. We’ve heard your requests and we're overjoyed to announce that the Official Altium Store is live!  The new curated Official Altium Store has everything you've been asking for; we'll also be adding new merchandise regularly, including seasonal essentials like tank tops and hoodies.  Simply visit brandstore.altium.com...

Dugan Karnazes (Velocity Research), Rob Cooke (Calumet Electronics), and Chris Denney (Worthington Assembly) join the OnTrack podcast to relay their experiences while working on the OSV (Open Source Ventilator) project. The OSV project is a global coalition formed entirely of volunteer engineers, corporations, manufacturers, and hospital systems which helped alleviate world-wide ventilator shortages at the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic.  Learn...

This is part four in a series where we look at all the main types of temperature sensors you might use in an electronics project. We are looking at the various ways to implement these different sensors in a design. At the end of the series, we’ll be putting the sensors and implementations in a head to head competition using real-world conditions. This real-world testing will give us a better understanding of how different sensors behave and...

High speed interfaces can be difficult to layout and route without the right set of design and analysis tools. Protocols like Ethernet, USB, DDR, MIPI, and others require precise single-ended and differential impedance control in your PCB layout. This, in turn, requires designing a stackup for controlled impedance routing with defined trace geometry and return path. It’s no wonder some designers have a hard time getting started with high speed...

Getting your PCB layout design done takes patience and precision. Complex footprint geometries, board shape, and dense component placement require accurate primitive positioning. Each stage of PCB design needs a different snapping configuration. Often your settings can be excellent fit for one stage and be unfavorable for another. For example, good snapping settings for your board outline can make routing almost impossible. Learn more about...

Design Rules are at the foundation and provide the framework of the PCB Design Construction. More than just constraints, Design Rules are guidelines to help ensure not only that the PCB is fabricated correctly, but also that the PCB will hold up to the environment for which it was designed. Watch the video to learn how to create Design Rules and how they work. Here are some key points covered in the session: How Design Rules work and how...

The basics of signal integrity analysis in your PCB design can be anything but basic. Signal integrity simulation tools are great for calculating the behavior of signals in different nets during schematic and layout design, but you’ll still need to take some steps to interpret the results. As advanced as some signal integrity and EM simulation tools can get, they simply can’t compare to the information you can glean from measurements. Whichever...