Concord Pro and Component Data Management

Altium Concord Pro simplifies component management and is your single source for component data, real-time sourcing information, component traceability within designs, collaboration with your mechanical design team and more - all within the Altium Designer unified environment. Browse our library of resources to learn more about designing PCBs and utilizing Altium Concord Pro

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PCB Design Reuse and Product Lifecycle Management in Altium Concord Pro

PCB Design Reuse and Product Lifecycle Management in Altium Concord Pro Reusing design data is a great way to hasten redesigns of existing hardware. Managing this design data, including version control and component data management, can be a real challenge. Production lead times are decreasing, component lifecycles are shorter, replacement parts are pushed to market sooner, and design data steadily grows as new designs become more complex. Reusing design data for a portion of an existing board or functional blocks Read Article

Data Management for Component Models in SPICE Simulations

Data Management for Component Models in SPICE Simulations Simulation software is becoming more powerful as time goes on, but the simplest solutions are sometimes still preferable for many applications. SPICE simulations have been around for decades, yet their applicability to a wide variety of circuits and applications is not lost on anyone. With SPICE simulation tools being so popular, it’s only natural that they appear in PCB design software platforms. Devices continue to become more powerful and more Read Article

From RC to Atomic Clocks: All Clock Sources

From RC to Atomic Clocks: All Clock Sources In almost modern circuits, especially whenever digital circuitry is involved, you will find some kind of clock source. All clock sources present a series of tradeoffs regarding stability, reliability, size, power consumption and cost. Luckily for us, such tradeoffs are relatively simple and can be explained almost fully within this single article. We’ll discuss the pros and cons of each clock source, from the RC in a 555-powered oscillator, to a Read Article

Managing Component Obsolescence with a Unified Data Solution

Managing Component Parts Obsolescence with a Unified Data Solution If components stayed competitive forever, your smartphone would run on vacuum tubes. Obsolescence is an essential part of electronics. It represents an advance in technology, although it is incremental. However, it can also create some pain points for PCB designers, especially when they don’t use the right component management tools. Overcoming problems that arise from poor obsolescence management and lack of supply chain visibility takes the Read Article

Huge Vu-meter with RGB LEDs Project

Huge Vu-meter with RGB LEDs Project A laboratory journal to guide you through the steps to develop a successful product that value-conscious customers are sure to love. Read Article

3D Printing PCBs

3D Printing PCBs and Generating Printing Models Altium Designer® offers a fully integrated environment for generating instructions for 3D printing PCBs. Use the MCAD/ECAD collaboration tools in Altium Designer for PCB design and integration with mechanical design tools. Read Article

Real-time PCB Component Traceability in Altium Concord Pro

Altium Concord Pro: Real-time PCB Component Traceability for All Requirements PCB designers and project managers in highly regulated industries face a number of obstacles when managing the design process and preparing for manufacturing. Aside from paying attention to industry standards, performance requirements, and coordinating electrical and mechanical design teams, component sourcing carries its own requirements. Supply chain glitches can delay a prototyping or high volume manufacturing run by weeks or even months, and 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

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

Automated Mirroring Between Concord Pro and Your Git Server

Automated Mirroring Between Concord Pro and Your Git Server You can create a Git server mirror of your Altium Concord Pro server. This gives you a simple way to create a backup for projects from an on-premises Concord Pro instance. 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

Selecting and Tracking a General-Purpose Op-Amp

Selecting and Tracking a General-Purpose Op-Amp Learn the most critical parameters that should be considered when you're selecting a general-purpose Op-Amp. Read Article

Building the Library - Unified Data Model

Building the Library - Unified Data Model Introduction This may come as a shock to some, but I was raised on a farm back in Pennsylvania. Every spring, we would prepare for the planting season. It was amazing to me to take the seeds, plant them in the field, tend them, and in time end up with a crop. Within each one of those seeds was packed with an untapped potential to produce something amazing. In the same way, in the PCB Design field, we have untapped potential available to us in the Read Article

Setting Up Concord Pro Revisions and Lifecycle

Setting Up Concord Pro Revisions and Lifecycle Precursor To help PCB Designers to become better at what they do, there are various Blog series on Concord Pro which are presented in such a way that they are first broken into by categories. These categories walk through the entire process of efficiently using Concord Pro. At the end of each blog are practical steps you can take to get organized, and get the most out of Concord Pro for your PCB projects. Introduction We are continuing to set up Read Article

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Open Source Ventilator Project (OSV) Combats Ventilator Shortage

Open Source Ventilator Project (OSV) Combats Ventilator Shortage Dugan Karnazes joins the OnTrack Podcast to discuss his work with the Open Source Ventilator project, and its effort to end the ventilator shortage. Read Article

Why you should be using Concord Pro?

Why You Should Be Using Concord Pro 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 that first step, endlessly consider “What if?” scenarios. You know what I am talking about here... “What if we do this and something happens?” This issue is so prevalent in our Read Article