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PCB Temperature Won’t Overheat with Smart Checking Design Software
Board integrity can be compromised without a conscious effort by the designer to mitigate high temperature board areas. Heat management can help keep your board from catching aflame. ALTIUM DESIGNER The right board design software will go a long way in high-speed designs and beyond. The emphasis on achieving smaller product footprints has pushed multi-layer PCB designs toward higher component densities. As a result, the application of better
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Propagation Delay Calculators in High-Speed PCB Design
Propagation delay becomes an important consideration in high-speed PCB design. You’ll need to make sure that your signals remain synchronized throughout your board in order to prevent skew. A PCB design package that incorporates a propagation delay calculator as part of your design rules makes it easy to compensate for propagation delay, allowing you to focus on routing and signal integrity, rather than manually adjusting traces and calculating
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Never Lose Track of Fabrication With Unified PCB Panelization Software
Once you’re ready to manufacture your PCB, your software should help you maximize your board yield. Altium Designer gives you the power to design your PCB schematics, layout your board, generate your BOM, panelize your boards, and export Gerber files, all in a single software package. ALTIUM DESIGNER An easy-to-use PCB design tool that helps you take your ideas from layout to manufacturing. Let’s set the scene: you’ve just finished designing the
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Round and Curved PCB Design in Altium Designer
Our modern lives would not be possible without electronics. Sometimes it seems like a race to be the first person to wire everything in your house onto PCBs. With the multitude of possible device shapes and sizes, circular or rounded PCBs are becoming more popular. If you want to design your next device on a round PCB, your design software needs CAD and layout tools that don’t constrain you to working on rectangular PCBs. When you work with
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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
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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
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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
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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.
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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
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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
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Design to Your PCB Board Thickness Requirements
To quickly set up and work with the different PCB board thickness requirements that are before you every day, you need the best PCB Design tools available; you need Altium Designer. ALTIUM DESIGNER The most powerful, modern and easy-to-use PCB design tool for professional printed circuit board fabrication use. Incorporating the design with the fabrication process was never worth the effort as old and rigid PCB layout design tools offered little
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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.
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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
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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
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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!
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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
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Use Altium Designer’s IPC® Compliant Footprint Wizard to Make Unified PCB Library Footprints
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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
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