Electronics Design Collaboration

Creating modern electronic products requires collaboration between multiple domains and specialists. Browse our library of resources to learn more about using the best electronic design software to collaborate with your team members and customers.

New Opportunities for PCB Education with John Watson John Watson talks about the importance of education for designers, what it's like working with students, and what new opportunities there are for PCB designers in today's market. Read Article

Using ChatGPT for Automated Testing In this article Ari Mahpour talks about ChatGPT and how to utilize the service to help with automated testing. Read Article

How I Improved My Collaboration Efficiency with Altium 365 In my years as a practising electronics engineer, one of the most significant inefficiencies I have noticed has always been communication between teams, freelancers, contractors, and clients. This has always been the most noticeable when working with firmware developers. And it doesn’t matter if I am working with the firmware developer internally on a permanent team or if I am working with an external contractor who will develop the firmware for Read Article

Project History in Altium 365 Altium 365’s Project History shows changes to the project's documents and the timeline since the project was launched. Read Article

Interactive Commenting in Altium 365 With Altium 365 Interactive Commenting, your comments provide you instant access and complete visibility to any design changes, so your explanations are all in one place. Read Article

Part 2: Why Your PCB Design Review Process Is Obsolete and What You Can Do About It As we established in Part 1, the PCB design review and collaboration practices have room for improvement in many organizations. To address this, we developed Altium 365. Let's examine how running a PCB project through Altium 365 compares to other methods. One source of truth, visibility, and version control To start using Altium 365, you need to create a workspace and a centralized location for your design files, libraries, and collaboration Read Article

Part 1: Why Your PCB Design Review Process Is Obsolete and What You Can Do About It A printed circuit board (PCB) design review is a practice to review the design of a board for possible errors and issues at various stages of product development. It can range from a formal checklist with official sign-offs to a more free-form inspection of schematic drawings and PCB layouts. Some companies do it completely in-house, while others get help from design firms and contractors. In many cases, they involve their contract manufacturers Read Article

Mechanical and Electrical Design Come Together With Altium’s MCAD CoDesigner Electronics designers working in small design houses or in large enterprises often encounter a common set of challenges when interfacing with mechanical designers. For many new products, the mechanical form factor requirements will constrain the electrical design collaboration in terms of physical layout, location of interfaces, and component selection. For many electronic products, flex and rigid-flex board designs require careful modeling of Read Article

Using Altium 365 to Share Simulations in the Cloud Altium 365 allows you to share your cloud simulation models and data with your signal integrity team and test engineer. Read Article

PCB Sharing and What Data You Can Share in Altium 365 Open up your design data files with your team using the PCB sharing features in Altium 365. Read Article

Collaboration for Mechanical & PCB Designers Enhance your product design process by enabling seamless collaboration between mechanical and PCB designers. Discover how Altium MCAD CoDesigner simplifies data exchange, eliminates inefficiencies, and boosts design quality. Read Article

How to Hire the Right PCB Designer for Your Project in 2023 Learn what you should look for when you hire your first design engineer for your company. Read Article

How Embedded Design Teams Can Simplify I/O and Routing Each member of an electronics product design team can take concrete steps to simplify I/O selection and routing in embedded systems design. Read Article

Learn to Collaborate Like a Pro with Altium Designer 23 Watch our webinar: “Learn to Collaborate Like a Pro with Altium Designer 23”. Click here. Watch Video

What's in a Hardware-Software Co-design Process Product development spans across multiple domains, including hardware and software. A co-design process for your hardware and software helps ensure your success. Read Article

The Last Mile of Digital Transformation Made Easy We live in an era fueled by innovation. In almost every aspect of our lives, we are constantly being reminded about the pace of innovation, its relentless acceleration touted in the news, its benefit on our lives, and the lifestyles our gadgets enable. For those of us whose business is electronic product design, the impacts of rapid innovation, changing market conditions, and customer expectations also permeate every aspect of our working Read Article

What is Digital Transformation in PCB Design? Innovative companies are embracing digital transformation at the enterprise level. Read Article