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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
Electronic Components Management in Altium Concord Pro Remote work and collaboration on complex projects of all kinds is the future of electronics design. Currently, design teams must go through a back-and-forth collaboration and management process that involves ZIP files, email chains, and poorly-formatted Excel spreadsheets. Considering the modern sourcing landscape, electronic components management is very difficult when your design and parts data is fragmented in multiple locations. It’s enough Read Article
Online PCB Design Review with Altium Concord Pro You can design a PCB any way you like, but if it doesn’t pass a PCB design review, then it will never become a real board. A PCB design review is about more than just running DRCs, it’s about designing to satisfy your manufacturer’s capabilities and processes. Manufacturers have had to become much more skilled at designing new boards, and the best manufacturers will collaborate with you during a PCB design review. With the right effort and Read Article
Import and Export DXF Files with Altium Designer Considering switching to a new design software? Tired of working in a command line interface just to complete simple design tasks? Instead of using an antiquated workflow, Altium Designer makes using your CAD, data management, analysis, and deliverable generation tools easy. Altium Designer also gives you access to file formats from your other design and CAD programs. You’ll be able to use DXF, SCH, ODB++, and other file formats with your old 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
39:34 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
Seamless ECAD/MCAD PCB Data Integration Step up to the unified environment of Altium Designer and leave behind the problems of trying to force different ECAD and MCAD tools to work together. ALTIUM DESIGNERThe most powerful, modern and easy-to-use PCB design tool for professional use.Are you tired of the problems of maintaining separate ECAD and MCAD CAD environments? Have you had your fill in trying to get your ECAD and MCAD systems and software tools to transfer accurate design data Read Article
Step Up Into Altium Designer from PCAD The original goal of PCAD, to give PCB designers the best tools possible, lives on today in Altium. Altium Designer is made for designers like you and will import your legacy PCAD designs so you can continue your work. ALTIUM DESIGNER CAD software that will continue through the years. Back in 1982, an innovative new PCB design software CAD tool called P-CAD was introduced to the world. This PCAD PCB design tool quickly outgrew its competition and Read Article
Using Altium Designer Supported File Types Just as you design your home environment to enhance your quality of life you can customize your work environment to improve the quality of your work. Although a comfortable chair can provide a relaxing ambiance while designing PCBs, the most important feature for generating quality work is the comfort level you feel with your PCB software design tool. Altium Designer is designed to provide the greatest capability coupled with exceptional Read Article
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
PCB Design Tools Enhanced with an Advanced Free Gerber File Editor To successfully manufacture today’s challenging PCB designs, you need to be able to create the latest Gerber X2 file formats in your design tool’s free Gerber file editor. ALTIUM DESIGNER Getting manufacturing output files out is a breeze with the right CAD software. For over 30 years the printed circuit board design and manufacturing industries have relied on Gerber files to transfer PCB image information from design to manufacturing. This data Read Article