Altium 365 - Design Platform

Altium 365 is a cloud based electronics product design platform that unites electronics design to the manufacturing floor through PCB design, MCAD, data management, and real-time team collaboration. Browse our library of resources to learn how to leverage this platform to improve your design processes.

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Free PCB Viewer Software Review: Best Tool for EDA File Formats

Free PCB Viewer Software Review: Best Tool for EDA File Formats To quickly set up and work with the different PCB file formats in one Viewer, you need the best PCB Design tools available; you need Altium Designer. Altium offers a Free PCB Viewer download Looking for a free PCB Viewer download or free PCB design software that can take all EDA file formats and presents them in a tool accessible to every member of the production process? Being able to read obscure engineering software formats in a variety of Read Article

PCB manufacturing quality control

Managing PCB Manufacturing Quality Control in the Cloud You and your manufacturer can track quality problems and correct at the design level when you use cloud tools for PCB manufacturing quality control. Read Article

Altium project history

What You Can Track in Your Altium Project History You can easily track your Altium project history and revisions locally, or you can use the cloud storage features on Altium 365. Read Article

Polygon pour and copper in a PCB layout

Managing PCB Polygon Pour and Copper Features in Complex Layouts PCB polygon pour and copper features in your PCB layout need to be carefully managed, especially when collaborating with other designers. Read Article

Altium 365 Demonstration

Increasing PCB Prototype Iteration Speed in the Cloud Stay productive and increase PCB prototype iteration speed with the right set of design collaboration utilities in your PCB design software. Read Article

PCB design and embedded systems firmware

Embedded Systems Firmware and Hardware in the Cloud Embedded systems firmware development is easier when your hardware designers and coders can work together in the cloud. Read Article

PCB design collaboration and time management

Top 4 Time Wasters in PCB Design Collaboration PCB design collaboration doesn’t have to be difficult when you use the right project management and communication tools. Read Article

How Multifunctional Hardware Teams Can Collaborate

IoT PCB Design: It's More Than Just Hardware Development Altium 365 makes IoT PCB design and coding easy. Share your designs, control revisions, and fork projects directly in Altium Designer or through Altium Concord Pro. Read Article

Design data management system

The Search for the All-in-One Design Data Management System In this article we discuss the pain points of using a single design data management system over linking many together. Read Article

Which Capacitor Types Should You Use?

Which Capacitor Types Should You Use? Capacitors are used in far more applications than just bypassing noise, and there are many more types of capacitors than just ceramic and aluminium electrolytic. Read Article

Hardware development cycle PCB design

Prepare to Share: How to Make the Most of Collaborative PCB Design Before you start sharing design data, run through this checklist to make sure collaborative PCB design is a productive experience. Read Article

Perfect Boards Every Time (With Free Templates)

Perfect Boards Every Time (With Free PCB Templates) Gone are the days of obsessing over the formatting of schematics. Draftsman®, embedded within Altium Designer®, could radically change your drawing editor workflow for the better. Read Article

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Designing CAN-Bus Circuitry: CAN-Bus PCB Layout Guidelines This article is part of a three-part introductory series on the CAN-bus: Part 1: An Informal Introduction Part 2: The Protocol Part 3: Designing CAN-Bus Circuitry Introduction There are three main components in a CAN-bus node: Microprocessor CAN-bus controller CAN-bus transceiver The CAN-bus controller implements all the low-level features of the network protocol, ISO 11898–1, while the transceiver communicates with the physical layer. Different Read Article

Tips for Managing the Hardware Development Cycle

Tips for Managing the Hardware Development Life Cycle Your PCB design team needs to stay productive. Here’s how you can control the hardware development cycle when working remotely. Read Article

Smart PCB Design Solutions With Kinetic Vision and Altium 365

Smart PCB Design Solutions With Kinetic Vision and Altium 365 Kinetic Vision, a Cincinnati-based design, engineering, and development firm, is an innovator’s one-stop-shop for transforming even the wildest ideas into real products. Among their diverse client list are 50 of the Fortune 500 and 15 of the Fortune 100 companies. Read Article

ISO 13485 Compliance: Tools for PCB Designers and Manufacturers

ISO 13485 Compliance: Tools for PCB Designers and Manufacturers Your Altium 365 workspace and Concord Pro can be used as part of a QMS system for ISO 13485 compliance. Here’s how cloud collaboration helps manufacturers. Read Article

CAN-Bus: Introduction and History

CAN-Bus: Introduction and History Take a look at our controller area network bus introduction. You'll learn about the history of CAN buses, their purpose, and how they were created. Read Article