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Once you’ve finished your new project and you’re ready to push it to your manufacturer, you’ll normally be stuck in an endless email chain with an engineer, or you’ll have to share cloud links with each other. Personally, I find the long email chains and long list of links overwhelming, especially when I have plenty of other tasks that require my attention. Sharing PCB data with manufacturers shouldn’t be a headache; it should be a seamless...

The Altium Designer environment is controlled by rules, which are created using a powerful tool called the “PCB Rules and Constraints Editor”. By creating rules before component placement and routing starts, Altium can warn you or prevent you from making mistakes, depending on how your preferences are set. If rules are changed midstream, Altium’s sophisticated Design Rule Checker can highlight violations based on the revised rules, and report...

This 2 hr session will cover the basics of Managing Differential Pairs as Speeds Continue to Increase.

We are pleased to offer a 3 part Altium Academy Virtual series to discuss the problems that companies can encounter while working remotely, and how to effectively overcome these issues. During these three webinars, we’ll cover: Teaming up with other stakeholders Collaborating from various locations with colleagues from your organization Cooperating with 3rd party companies or contractors Managing your company data in a cloud...

This 2 hour session will cover the basics of PCB routing, Polygons for power and Design Rule Checking DRCs.

As a species, we like to define things, categorize them, and stick metaphorical labels on them. In addition to helping us organize our thoughts and ideas, this allows us to construct a mental framework for how we understand the world and how we communicate with each other. The problem is that we prefer to think in terms of crisp, sharp, black-and-white, concepts. In the real world, however, things are fuzzy and gray. Take the notion of an "Age"...

Day by day, I become more and more hopeful that we will become a true space-faring species within my lifetime or – failing that – the lifetime of my son. I remember how excited I was when humans first landed on the moon on July 20, 1969. I was 12 years old and I watched this incredible event on our low-definition black-and-white cathode ray tube (CRT) television in glorious grayscale with my dear old dad. (It wouldn’t have made any difference if...

Gerry Partida is a 36 year veteran of the PCB industry, and spent twenty of those years working in boardshops. He is currently a Senior Field Application Engineer for Summit Interconnect, where he and his colleagues have made a fascinating discovery about the reliability of multiple stacked microvias. Gerry and his team are still collecting data on this finding, but he joined us on OnTrack to share a firsthand account of what he knows! Listen to...

Guest writer Peter Smith shares tips for getting the best out of Altium Draftsman®.  When I started at a company relatively recently, I (and the other designers) were less than impressed with the quality of the manufacturing datapack. It took some work, but we managed to convince the management that it was worth investing the time and effort to produce datapacks that were complete and looked really professional. At the time, we were on Altium...