PCB Components

Why you should be using Concord Pro?

Why You Should Be Using Concord Pro Altium Concord Pro™ as a standalone product and brand name has been discontinued and the capabilities are now available as part of our Altium enterprise solutions. Learn more here. Introduction A journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step, or so the aphorism goes. I think it’s worth noting that the first step is the most difficult to take. In my experience, the best engineers suffer from a condition in which they, before even taking Read Article

Integrated Electronics Manufacturing

Integrated Electronics Manufacturing and Design Collaboration Advanced devices require collaboration among multiple team members, both to ensure functionality and manufacturability. With embedded systems, this extends beyond a hardware team to include software developers. If you want your new product to be manufacturable at scale, then at some point, you will need to involve your manufacturer in the collaborative process. This is especially true with high speed digital devices and high speed analog devices Read Article

Setting Up Concord Pro- Roles and Permissions

Setting Up Concord Pro- Roles and Permissions Altium Concord Pro™ as a standalone product and brand name has been discontinued and the capabilities are now available as part of our Altium enterprise solutions. Learn more here. Precursor To help PCB Designers to become better at what they do, the series of Blogs on Concord Pro are broken down by category. Each category walks through the entire process of setting up and efficiently using Concord Pro. Furthermore, at the end of each blog are Read Article

Evaluating Concord Pro

Evaluating Concord Pro Altium Concord Pro™ as a standalone product and brand name has been discontinued and the capabilities are now available as part of our Altium enterprise solutions. Learn more here. I’m working on several projects that require new PCB assemblies, and this presented a great opportunity to try Altium’s new product: Concord Pro™. Concord Pro is a component management system which makes component creation and organization much easier than using the Read Article

Reduce PCB Manufacturing Time

Reduce PCB Manufacturing Time Through Manufacturer Collaboration In a recent interview with PCB007, Altium VP of Marketing Lawrence Romine recalled a brief conversation with Tara Dunn, who remarked that all designs her company receives for manufacturing get put on hold. If you’re a manufacturer, this probably doesn’t surprise you; some designers can be very cavalier with their design choices. Although these designs may be innovative and useful from a signal integrity and layout perspective, they may not be Read Article

Download the Best Circuit Maker Software by Altium

Download the Best Circuit Maker Software by Altium To Create the Best Designs, Download the Best Circuit Maker Software from Altium. ALTIUM DESIGNER The most powerful, modern, and easy-to-use PCB design tool for professional use. To save yourself from the trouble of working with a mixture of design tools in multiple systems you need Altium Designer, the circuit maker software that contains all the tools you need in one system. Now you can sign up for Altium Designer. Creating a printed circuit Read Article

For Clear Communication, Use the Best RF PCB Design Software

Use the Best Radio PCB Design Software For Clear Communication More and more RF or radio PCB designs are being used every day, and if you aren’t already working with them you may find yourself doing so very soon. To make sure you have the greatest advantage, use the best RF PCB design software you can get; Altium Designer. ALTIUM DESIGNER Working through radio PCB design commandments like frequency, components, noise, and layer management with ease. The communication gap is shrinking all over the world as Read Article

PCB Board Thickness Requirements and Standards Incorporating the design with the fabrication process was never worth the effort as old and rigid PCB layout design tools offered little in the way of help in this area. Those days are long gone, and the multitude of design technologies available to the PCB designer of today offer advanced functionality in layout tools. From a standard two-layer board to a multi-layer HDI with microvias or a rigid-flex design, you need Printed Circuit Board Read Article

Electronic Components Management in Altium 365

Electronic Components Management in Altium 365 Electronic components management is much easier when your team can quickly share and annotate parts data in Altium 365. Read Article

Using Altium Designer Supported File Types

Using Altium In PCB Design: Supported File Types and Extensions 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

PCB Design Tools Enhanced with an Advanced Free Gerber Editor

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 online. 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 editor files to transfer PCB image information from design to Read Article

Chris Carlson's Time Saving Tips for PCB Design

Chris Carlson's Time Saving Tips for PCB Design In this podcast episode, Chris Carlson, Senior Field Application Engineer at Altium, shares the kind of indispensable PCB design tips & tricks one can only get with 23-years of experience! Watch now! Read Article

Types of Printed Circuit Boards Once you start designing Printed Circuit Boards, you’ll find that different applications require have specialized design requirements. In order to meet all your design requirements without sacrificing workflow productivity, you need PCB design software that is adaptable to any design requirements. Working with the best PCB design software with a unified design interface makes it easy to define and satisfy design requirements for your specific Read Article

IPC Compliant Footprint Wizard

Use Altium Designer’s IPC® Compliant Footprint Wizard to Make Unified PCB Library Footprints Altium Designer’s IPC^® Compliant Footprint Wizard facilitates accurate PCB footprint generation for each component in Altium Designer. The footprint generation feature in Altium Designer overcomes some of the biggest productivity bottlenecks in other CAD systems, such as OrCAD/Allegro and PADS. Instead of manually creating every footprint from scratch, use the footprint generation tool in Altium Designer and our suite of automated library Read Article

PCB Creators Look No Further than Altium Designer

PCB Creators Look No Further than Altium Designer When it comes to PCB design software, the best software packages aren’t sold piecemeal. You need an integrated software solution that includes the latest and greatest tools demanded by the PCB design industry. Whether you are new to PCB design or you’ve been in the business for decades, Altium Designer gives you the tools to produce top-quality PCBs for any application. ALTIUM DESIGNER An integrated PCB design software package that contains all Read Article

Reusing Your Old PCB Designs in Altium Designer

Reusing Your Old PCB Designs in Altium Designer Reusing or modifying your old designs is common among engineers and designers as this helps save you a considerable amount of time. There are times where it makes sense to reuse some or all of an old board, and you might as well completely recreate a device at other times. With Altium Designer, you can implement a comprehensive data management strategy that makes it easy to reuse old designs. You can even go further and use design methodologies Read Article

Solder Mask and Solder Processes for Your PCB Design

Superior Software for Designing a Blue PCB, or Any Other Color Circuit Board No matter what color you decide on; blue PCB or other, Altium Designer is the PCB design tool of choice that you need to get the job done. ALTIUM DESIGNER For any solder mask need, count on Altium Designer The color of the circuit board is determined by the color of the solder mask that is used during manufacturing, and there are a lot of colors to choose from. Traditional green, red, and even blue are just some of the colors that are available Read Article