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Ben Jordan

Ben est un ingénieur en systèmes informatiques et PCB avec plus de 20 ans d'expérience dans la conception de systèmes embarqués, de FPGA et de PCB. Il est un bricoleur passionné et passionné par la création d'appareils électroniques de toutes sortes. Ben est titulaire d'un baccalauréat en génie (CompSysEng) avec mention très bien de l'Université du Sud du Queensland et est actuellement directeur des outils et du contenu communautaires.

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Altium Designer 17.1: The Latest Version of Intuitive Design Technology is Here

Altium Designer 17.1: The Latest Version of Intuitive Design Technology is Here Altium Designer^® 17.1 was tailored specifically for today’s engineer. We understand that industry pressures to build more advanced, more efficient products can oftentimes mean a lag in the technology required to accommodate these demands. Our focus was to address these present-day challenges and fully equip designers with the necessary tools for optimum design. The pressure is on for you! You have to get to market in less time with more features Lire l'article

Why You Need Integrated Circuit Simulation

Why You Need an Integrated Circuit Simulator Integrated Circuit Simulation: integrated circuit simulator, or simulating ICs? You aren’t a newbie anymore but here’s why we say keep the integrated circuit creator in your toolkit. As your career progresses, you become more confident. You’ll tend to collect circuits you know work well in different designs - power supplies, filters, oscillators, etc. Most of the time these reusable blocks will work great in any place you choose to use them, but Lire l'article

Rigid-Flex PCB Design

Ruminating Rigid-Flex PCB Design Learn about the finer points of rigid-flex PCB design with Altium expert Ben Jordan. Lire l'article

PCB Production File Format Wars

ODB++ vs. Gerber X2 vs. IPC-2581: PCB Production File Format Wars There's been a lot of excitement among PCB Designers and Fabricators over the last year about new PCB design and manufacturing hand-off. People tend to fall into one of four camps: Stay with Gerber RX-274X (the status quo), stay with / switch to ODB++ (Mentor's format), adopt the upgraded Gerber X2 , or adopt the new IPC-2581 standard. No matter which camp you fall into, one things really clear - most of the scrap, wasted time, and manufacturing Lire l'article

Putting managed content to the test

Putting managed content to the test The release of Altium Live along with the Shanghai and Hobart managed content services marks a significant shift in the way electronic product development should be done. The concept of managed content services using cloud publishing is new to our industry - I mean, it has been sort-of tried before by others but never successfully executed. I believe we now have the right solution. At this time, as more and more users connect to AltiumLive and Lire l'article

Improving support for users - and investing in support AEs

Improving support for users - and investing in support AEs Many of you who’ve contacted Altium’s North American support team over the past two years may have noticed some changes. Notably, there were times when it was hard to get a live body on the other end of the phone, although generally once you did the advice you got was solid. For those users who resorted to emailing the team or logging a case through the support center (feel free to continue this practice), the wait time for a response could get Lire l'article

Software development streams - the natural evolution of our business

Software development streams - the natural evolution of our business The software engineering industry is a bit of an ugly duckling when it comes to release cycles. For reasons of traceability, validation, verification, and marketing, most software packages are built to a certain level of completeness and then released with much fanfare. But is this how we should do things in the future? Software development streams - the natural evolution of our business The embedded software engineering industry is a bit of an Lire l'article

Design custom NanoBoard peripheral boards – Pt2

Design custom NanoBoard peripheral boards – Pt2 Last month, we discussed how to get started on custom peripheral board designs by building a template from the PB30 reference design. This month, with an example prototype peripheral board in hand, we look at the process of registration using the 1-Wire bus EPROM which holds the board’s identity and allows Altium Designer^® to automatically configure FPGA projects that use the new board. Design custom NanoBoard^® peripheral boards – Pt2 Part 2 Lire l'article

Design Custom NanoBoard Peripheral Boards

Design Custom NanoBoard Peripheral Boards If you want to add custom hardware functionality to your NanoBoard^®, why not make your own add-on Peripheral Board? This two part Tech Tip details the easy way to create your own custom board to use with Altium Designer^®. Part 1: Creating your own peripheral board template In this first installment of this two-part tech-tip, we’ll look at how to go about getting the PCB design under way, starting with the PB30 reference design and modifying it to Lire l'article

Open Source OLED Watch

Open Source OLED Watch It's a great time to be an engineer and a designer. In keeping with the theme of Petr Tosovsky's Open Source Projects in our Altium Designer blog, we found another Open Source Hardware (OSHW) project which was so cool we wanted to share it with the community. In this blog, Ben Jordan interviews 4th year computer engineering student Jared Sanson about his awesome OLED watch (smart watch), which he designed the electronics for in Altium Designer^® Lire l'article

The Power of Integration - Why Analysis Belongs to PCB Designers

The Power of Integration - Why Analysis Belongs to PCB Designers PCB designers often rely on simulation tools or prototypes for their network data, but this approach can disrupt design flow and drain funds. What if designers were capable of analyzing their network during the board layout process? Read on to find out how designers are increasing productivity with access to analysis data at design time. As the complexity of our product designs increases each year, so do the requirements of our designs. And Lire l'article