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Steve Tran

Steve currently serves as an Application Engineer for Altium and is responsible for post sales support, customer training, and technical writing. He holds a B.S. in Engineering with an emphasis in Computer Engineering from Wentworth Institute of Technology.

Recent Articles

Jumpstart Your Next Design Your project is complete and you are ready to move onto the next project. But a lot of the same properties in the new project are already completed in the previous project. There must be a quick and simple way of bringing these properties over to your next projects. Read Article

How to Easily Import Your Designs to Your Favorite Design Tools One task that has always proven difficult is moving electronic product designs from one printed board design software environment to another. Whether you’ve changed PCB design tools or acquired designs from another company, there are a number of challenges involved in moving a project from one PCB software platform to another, while maintaining design consistency. It’s a difficult and time-consuming process, but it has to be done. Say a PCB has Read Article

Simplify Your BGA Routing Using Neck-Down Trace Width

Using Safe Neck Down Trace Width Simplification for BGA Routing How many times have you attempted to route into your BGA (ball grid array) only to be prevented by clearance and trace width constraints? It's possible to math out thinner traces, but computers are particularly good at this kind of work while maintaining a safe current carrying capacity. Learn how to effectively route into your BGA without interrupting the routing process to adjust rules or width size with the neck down features in Altium Read Article