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Design Prep: Centralizing Your Design Data

Design Prep: Centralizing Your Design Data Electronics design, like cooking, requires having the right ingredients in place to complete your creations. What if all that information was located in a single, centralized location so that everyone in the organization had access to pre-defined, pre-approved design ingredients to speed the process? Read on to learn more. I really like cooking. The satisfaction of tinkering with a recipe, and getting the flavors and balance just right. The Read Article

6 Things for Your PCB Design Library

6 Things to Have in Your Team’s PCB Design Library Components form the building blocks of our Printed Board designs, and making the right component selections can make or break a project’s budget. Are you doing everything you can to ensure that your design is both maintained and updated on a regular basis? More importantly, how are you ensuring that only approved, ready-to-use components are being used in your current PCB designs? Read on as we reveal the 6 things you need to have in your team’s Read Article

Migrating from Altium Vault Server 1.2 to Altium Vault 2.0

Migrating from Altium Vault Server 1.2 to Altium Vault 2.0 Yesterday we released Altium Vault^® 2.0. As Nikolay mentioned, organizations using the Altium Server with Subscription are eligible to upgrade to Altium 2.0. After you’ve contacted your Sales & Support Center, the next thing you’ll wonder about is just how do you go about migrating your data to the new Altium 2.0. It’s pretty easy actually; I did it for myself in about an hour yesterday afternoon and documented the process, which I’d like to Read Article

Collaborative Design Part 2: Building a Better System

Collaborative Design Part 2: Building a Better System The effectiveness of design collaboration is mostly determined by the structure and organization of the system back-end. For the second part of this blog series, we'll take a look at the best structure and practices for version control, and how this really forms a good basis for collaboration. Enter in the lifecycle management and enhanced administrative functionality of a real design release, and you have an even better foundation. From my Read Article

Using Configuration Management to Reduce Design Errors and Promote Re-use: Part 1

Using Configuration Management to Reduce Design Errors and Promote Re-use: Part 1 A Configuration Management system can be used, along with an existing Design Data Management system, to further promote good data integrity. So just what is Configuration Management, and how can the general principles be applied to an electronic design environment? This blog series aims to answer some of the questions surrounding this topic, as well as provide a basic framework for easily integrating a useful Configuration Management system. A [a Read Article

How to use Schematic CAD Drawings for Cable Assemblies: Part 2

How to use Schematic CAD Drawings for Cable Assemblies: Part 2 The need to design cable assembly drawings often falls to the electronics design team, but for many, the use of high-cost dedicated cabling design software is simply out of reach and overkill. In this second installment of the cable design blog series, Sainesh Solanki reveals the needed design elements of the components used in great cable assembly drawings (you can access part 1 here). These schematic symbols and their associated parameters and Read Article

Putting managed content to the test

Putting managed content to the test The release of Altium Live along with the Shanghai and Hobart managed content services marks a significant shift in the way electronic product development should be done. The concept of managed content services using cloud publishing is new to our industry - I mean, it has been sort-of tried before by others but never successfully executed. I believe we now have the right solution. At this time, as more and more users connect to AltiumLive and Read Article

What's in a Name - Component Development Part 2

What's in a Name - Component Code Development Part 2 In this blog, I outline how Altium Designers Content Team names printed circuit board (PCB) components, symbols, and footprints. This seems like an eminently boring place to start, but something I’ve noticed is that figuring out a way to name circuit board components in engineering land often makes for an animated discussion. Parametric information about the component is elevated to the row in the cmplib. This gives us the freedom to name the Read Article

Component Development best practices - Part 1

Component Development best practices - Part 1 During the coming weeks, we’d like to post details about our PCB component development standards, practices and processes. Along the way, I’d like open discussion about how you develop libraries, and where do you see challenges. We’d like to pull everything together into more formal best practices and standards guide. With solder paste, a solder mask, printed circuit assembly, and PCB fabrication, there is so much to consider so let's dig in! Hi Read Article

Altium Vault Technology - A Foundation for the Management of Design Data

Altium Vault Technology - A Foundation for the Management of Design Data A look at Altium's new Technology from the perspective of a tech writer in the trenches! A standalone solution, this technology provides a key foundation element, arguably the backbone, of Altium’s Design Data Management System. As a technical writer at Altium, my job entails its fair share of exciting new challenges. Having to keep abreast of cutting edge new features and functionality is, as the saying goes, my ‘bread and butter’. To say that Read Article

Design custom NanoBoard peripheral boards – Pt2

Design custom NanoBoard peripheral boards – Pt2 Last month, we discussed how to get started on custom peripheral board designs by building a template from the PB30 reference design. This month, with an example prototype peripheral board in hand, we look at the process of registration using the 1-Wire bus EPROM which holds the board’s identity and allows Altium Designer^® to automatically configure FPGA projects that use the new board. Design custom NanoBoard^® peripheral boards – Pt2 Part 2 Read Article

Altium Vault 2.5 Now Available

Altium Vault 2.5 Now Available We’re excited to announce the release of Altium Vault^® 2.5, with a number of new features for component management, data management, project collaboration, and infrastructure management. Read on to explore all of the new features! We’re excited to announce the release of Altium 2.5, available now exclusively for all Altium Subscription customers. Altium 2.5 gives you more precise control over your data management process, with a number of new Read Article

Announcements: Altium Vault 2.0

Announcements: Altium Vault 2.0 We’re very pleased to announce the release of Altium Vault^® 2.0. This release represents a big step forward for our collaboration and ECAD data management product family. Considerable effort has been placed on streamlining the experience as much as possible to make daily work with it more efficient and productive. Integrated SVN services with the . Design repositories can be hosted by server itself, using the to manage access control and Read Article

Taking Vaults forward together

Taking Vaults forward together Following the recent initial release of Altium Vaults our efforts are now concentrated on fostering large scale adoption. Enhancements will focus on technology maturity, efficiency improvements, and adaptability to a wider range of organization profiles. The next update initiates this second phase by delivering key improvements in the domains of supply chain management, design reuse and enterprise systems integration. Community contribution is Read Article