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10-Ounce Copper PCBs and Design Library Migration

10-Ounce Copper PCBs and Design Library Migration Today’s guest is Mario Strano, the senior PCB designer at Nikola and also president of ECAD Central. We will discuss interesting topics such as designing a 10-ounce PCB, setting up clearance and creepage rules, library migration, and a 57-ounce copper board; yes, you heard that right! 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

Flywheel and Flyback Diodes Prevent Electrical Noise in Circuits

Using Flyback Diodes in Relays Prevents Electrical Noise in Your Circuits What is a flyback diode, and how does a flyback diode protect a circuit? When used properly, flyback diodes can reduce electrical noise and prevent flyback voltages from building up. Read Article

PCB Design Reuse and Product Lifecycle Management in Altium Concord Pro

PCB Design Reuse and Product Lifecycle Management in Altium 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. 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 Read Article

Data Management for Component Models in SPICE Simulations

Data Management for Component Models in SPICE PCB 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

The What, Why and How of Data Management

The What, Why and How of Data Management More than 15 million components to choose from to design your board, where do you begin? Watch and learn from the Library Management expert himself John Watson. Read Article

PCB design reuse

Complete Guide to PCB Component and Design Reuse in the Cloud Isaac Newton once said "If I have seen further it is by standing on the shoulders of Giants." Not all designs need to be remade from scratch, and if you organize your designs properly you can easily reuse your old design data in a new project. PCB design reuse practices are great for cutting down design time and ensuring all your products live up to the same level of quality. It’s all about making sure the knowledge you’ve gained from building Read Article

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

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

PCB Functional Testing and The Role of Manufacturer Collaboration

PCB Functional Testing and The Role of Manufacturer Collaboration Getting your PCB functional testing requirements correct is easiest when you collaborate with manufacturers during the design phase. 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

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Advanced PCB Library Management

Advanced PCB Library Management A previous article from Altium’s PCB design blog showed everyone how to get started with integrated PCB library management. In the previous article, you can get a look at creating an integrated library project and how to compile schematics and PCBs into their own libraries. You can then take schematic libraries and your PCB libraries and compile them into an integrated library. This allows you to package sets of important design and component Read Article

Effective Integrated PCB Library Management with Altium Designer

Effective Integrated PCB Library Management with Altium Designer PCB library management by hand is over with Altium Designer If you’ve been designing for awhile, you’ve probably accumulated a significant amount of designs, including schematics, arranged boards, and proprietary components. Keeping track of all of this important information in your operating system’s file structure or on a network drive can leave you prone to careless mistakes. If someone moves or renames a single file, it can have a far Read Article

Managing Your PCB Work-in-Progress Data

Managing Your PCB Work-in-Progress Data The recent trends of shorter product lifecycles have resulted in increased customer expectations that crave quick delivery of feature-rich products. Electronic companies that haven’t progressed their design process and remain stuck with the conventional way of managing their ECAD data find it to be very costly and inefficient. With market pressures that leave no margin for error, electronic companies that don’t address the needs of today’s Read Article

Am I Big Enough for Data Management?

Am I Big Enough for Data Management? If we have only one or two EEs, do we really need data management? Data management systems for electronics design brings value to small businesses and individual design contractors. Learn more. Read Article