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Altium Support for PSpice® in the Mixed-Signal Circuit Simulator Altium Designer supports PSpice models in the Mixed-Signal Circuit Simulator. See how you can implement PSpice models in Altium's simulation engine. Read Article

Cadence OrCAD® Migration Guide

Cadence OrCAD Migration Guide This guide is intended for users switching from OrCAD/Allegro PCB Designer to Altium Designer. Even if you have never used Altium Designer, this guide will allow you to speed up learning the basic features significantly. Highly experienced experts wrote this guide for OrCAD/Allegro PCB Designer and Altium Designer with years of experience. With your experience, you can easily switch to Altium Designer, which has significant advantages over other Read Article

Why Altium Designer Will Give You Better Results Over OrCAD

Why Altium Designer Will Give You Better Results Over OrCAD A free download of software and a fancy demo can make PCB design tools seem very attractive. You owe it to yourself to do your research before you purchase so that you get the design features you need for success. Altium Designer delivers on its promise of an easy-to-learn, professional set of PCB design tools. When you switch to Altium Designer, you’ll have the same set of design features you’ll find in OrCAD and much more. You can also Read Article

Printed Circuit Board Design Software that is Productive and Painless to Use

Printed Circuit Board Design Software that is Productive and Painless to Use When I was young, a new hospital was built in my community. It was easy to get to and provided a great service. Over the years however, the hospital has grown and added more clinics and services. To accommodate this growth the property has been drastically altered for the construction of buildings and parking lots. Now there are narrow driveways, reduced parking, and areas blocked off by cement barricades. If new equipment is being delivered as Read Article

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Looking Forward What to Expect After Switching from OrCAD

Looking Forward What to Expect After Switching from OrCAD In my collection of tools out in the garage, I have a pair of tin snips far older than I am. I inherited this defective tool from my father, and it may be 80 years old for all I know. These tin snips are difficult to use because they’ve become dull and loose due to their age, but it was hard for me to make a change because they belonged to my dad. The tin snips frustrated me, so I would find ways to work around them. Finally, after being fed up Read Article

Digital Library Management for Circuit Boards: More Than a Few Shelves

PCB Creator's Digital Library Management for Circuit Boards: More Than a Few Shelves When you hear the word “components”, it’s natural to think about ICs, LEDs, resistors, and all the other electronic hardware that goes into building a PCB. But in terms of PCB design software, there is a lot of information that goes into any component. Every component has an associated symbol, footprint, pin arrangement, and other properties that are used by your PCB design software. With so many components available on the market and with Read Article

Rigid-Flex Command Set-up and Layer Stack Design

Rigid-Flex Command Set-up and Layer Stack Design Once you take that nose dive into PCB design, you start to realize how many of your home electronic devices actually work. From DVD drives to laptop monitors, and just about anything that folds, it is all made possible with rigid-flex PCBs. Rigid-flex PCB design can be a tricky beast depending on the software you’re using to create it, but at the end of the design, your printed circuit board will bend and flex like a gymnast. A rigid-flex PCB, at Read Article

Constraint Driven Design versus Rules Driven Design in a Unified Environment

Constraint Driven Design versus Rules Driven Design in a Unified Environment Wouldn’t it be great if more rules in life were checked automatically? I love to cook Italian food, but it gets tiring going back and forth between a cookbook and a pot of tomato sauce. The only automatic rules checking mechanism in the kitchen is your oven timer. Fortunately for PCB designers, high-quality software packages include constraint and rules checking features that can check your layout and schematic automatically. The ability to set Read Article

Painless Circuit Creation with a Hierarchical Schematic Design System that Works

Effortless Circuit Design with a Hierarchical Schematic System There is a lot of joy in creating a new world schematic circuit design. Placing and connecting the netlist together so that their logic flows naturally can give you a feeling of great accomplishment. Using a hierarchical schematic circuit design flow to organize a larger schematic makes it even better. By including a top hierarchical sheet in your schematic, you can represent the circuit creation design with a logical hierarchical block that Read Article

Ease the Pain of Your PCB Supply Chain Management with Intuitive Design Tools

Ease the Pain of Your PCB Supply Chain Management with Intuitive Design Tools Have you ever been writing something and can’t figure out how to spell a word so you rephrase the entire sentence in order to use a different word? As much as replacing a word can kill your creativity in writing, it is much worse when you have to replace a component while designing electronic circuits. It happens a lot though when you aren’t connected to your supply chain management design. Problems like these can kill your creativity and cause Read Article

Altium Designer Evaluation Guide for OrCAD® Users

Altium Designer Evaluation Guide for OrCAD® Users Read Article

Altium Designer Evaluation Guide for OrCAD® Users

Altium Designer Evaluation Guide for OrCAD® Users Read Article

Unified Platform Datasheet

Unified Platform Datasheet Altium Designer has been built from the ground up as a powerful, single-application electronics development environment that contains all the advanced design tools you’ll need to capture and simulate hardware, design PCBs, collaborate with MCAD, manage your ECAD data and documentation, as well as manage your designs from concept to production. It’s all there in a single, unified design platform. FEATURES AND BENEFITS Unified Design Environment Read Article

From OrCAD to Altium: Evaluation Resources to Help You Switch

From OrCAD to Altium: Evaluation and Review Resources to Help You Switch As you dive into your evaluation of Altium Designer, you will find this information helpful specifically for someone like you that is coming from an OrCAD background. When we look at what engineers and designers do every day, we often see that as much as 61% of your day can be consumed with non-design related tasks. These tasks are a byproduct of using a collection of tools (toolchains), vs. the Altium Designer paradigm of using a Unified Design Read Article

Migrating From Cadence OrCAD® To Altium Designer®

Migrating From Cadence OrCAD® To Altium Designer® This guide is intended for understanding Cadence OrCAD to Altium conversion. Even if you opened Altium Designer the first time and are not familiar with working with this software yet, this guide will allow you to significantly speed up exploring its basic features. The guide was written by highly experienced experts of Cadence OrCAD / Allegro PCB Designer and Altium Designer features who studying these widely used software systems for years Read Article

OrCAD Users®のためのAltium Designer®評価ガイド

OrCAD Users®のためのAltium Designer®評価ガイド Read Article