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    Agile PCB Design For Teams

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    Connecting PCB Design to the Manufacturing Floor

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    The most powerful, modern and easy-to-use PCB design tool for professional use

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    Getting Started

    Getting Started

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    Getting Started with PDN Analyzer To learn more about this topic please see the full solution - Getting Started with PDN Analyzer - at Altium.com. Download PDF
    PCB Designers Get on the fast track to efficient, scalable growth and become an expert PCB Designer. Become an expert PCB Designer when you use Altium Designer software. Here we have a collection of PCB design articles related specifically to PCB Designers. Click the PDF above to read more about PCB Design careers in this Ebook. Or read the original, full-length content here: Implications of Growing Automotive PCB Market Share for PCB Designers PCB Designer Download PDF
    Getting Started with PCB Design To learn more about this topic please see the full solution - Getting Started with PCB Design - at Altium.com. Download PDF
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    Top 5 PCB Design Guidelines Every PCB Designer Needs to Know Fine-Tuning Your Component Placement Placing Your Power, Ground & Signal Traces Keeping Things Separate Combating Heating Issues Checking Your Layout Against Your PCB Design Rules What’s the key to designing a board that’s realistic on paper and in physical form? Let’s explore the top 5 design guidelines that you need to know to design your next manufacturable, functional and reliable PCB. Top 5 PCB Design Guidelines for Engineers When starting a Read Article
    PCB Design Guide for Engineers: Part 1 The Team To learn more about this topic please see the full solution - PCB Design Guide for Engineers: Part 1 The Team - at Altium.com. Download PDF
    Building the Right Team for Electronics Design: A Deeper Investigation In Building the Right Team for Electronics Design: An Introduction we discussed the concept of creating a diverse team of people with a diverse set of skills. In today’s market, it is virtually impossible to build a team of homogenous engineers who can deliver from start to finish. Each engineer, possessing unique skill sets, contributes to the sum of parts within the design lifecycle. In this article, we will dive more deeply into the different Read Article
    Continuous Deployment: An Implementation Using Altium Designer In Continuous Integration and Deployment in ECAD we discussed the concept of Continuous Deployment within a build system. In this article, we will take a deeper look at how to set up continuous delivery and deployment systems so your team and vendors can enjoy a continuous stream of updated ECAD packages for review. Continuous Deployment/Delivery: Revisited In Continuous Integration: An Implementation Using Altium Designer we went through the Read Article
    Building the Right Team for Electronics Design: An Introduction Building and growing the right team for electronics design in today’s job market can be quite challenging. We sometimes feel that as our company grows the talent pool dwindles. We embark on a search for the perfect designers, seeking out individuals who can “do it all.” For some, we idealize this knight in shining armor as a senior engineer, armed with his HP calculator in one hand and electronics textbooks in another. For others it is the whiz Read Article
    First Prize Winner at Intel International Science and Engineering Fair My name is Piotr Lazarek, and I’m a second year student at the “Filomata” secondary school in Gliwice. Since 2017 I have been engaged in developing new technologies within the sector of precision agriculture, and for my most recent project I worked on the creation of an autonomous vehicle which uses a replaceable ion-selective electrode system in order to measure concentrations of different elements inside soil. This work generates useful data Read Article
    Robert Feranec on How to Implement The PCB Design Process In this episode, we talk with Robert Feranec, a familiar name to many of our listeners. Apart from being a popular YouTuber, he’s also the founder and CEO of FEDEVEL Academy where he teaches PCB Design to people around the world. Robert shares what it takes to be a popular YouTuber, the work it takes to produce all the great content he creates and as a special bonus we’ll discuss Robert’s Keynote that he will deliver at AltiumLive PCB Summit this Read Article
    SMTA for Young Professionals The SMTA is an international non-profit with chapters across the world in the US, Canada, Mexico, India, Europe, Brazil, Hong Kong and Malaysia. Since it’s invention in the 1960’s; Surface Mount Technology has helped reduce waste, reduce consumer costs, and most importantly, reduce environmental impact. This industry is creative and inventive. Everything we touch has been engineered. Our industry leaders shape the world around us. Our goal as an Read Article
    In-House Manufacturing for Electronics Projects The news media like to embellish the advances and proliferation of affordable 3D printers, sometimes calling them ‘a factory in your home’. While this concept of being able to avoid buying products at a store and building them at home sounds ideal, I personally don’t believe we’re anywhere near it being a reality. I purchased my first 3D Printer in 2012, built my first CNC router in 2007 and purchased my first CO2 laser cutter in 2014, so I have Read Article
    EIPC: A European Community of PCB Technology Professionals In mid-June, I had the great pleasure of attending my first EIPC Conference in Leoben, Austria (pictured above). EIPC (European Institute for the PCB Community) is an organization that has been around for over 50 years and serves the European Electronics Industry and supply chain while maintaining activities that involve the global industry. In this article, I speak with Tarja Rapala, the technical director for EIPC to discuss the purpose Read Article
    Engineers Embrace Failure on the Way to Success I'm sure you have worked on a project where you have spent days or weeks trying to make a solution work and at the end wish you had changed directions. I'm a big fan of the 'Fail early, fail fast' concept from software engineering, but I took many years to apply it consistently to electronic design. Some professional environments discourage failure, and unfortunately, many educational settings only offer the option of right or wrong. Changing Read Article
    PCB Design Certifications and Learning Programs Today we’re going to talk about the importance of learning, as Eric Bogatin emphasized at last year’s AltiumLive. Please join my conversation with Ben Jordan where we explore a variety of ways that you can continue to learn and drive your career forward. Listen to the Podcast: Download this episode (right click and save) Watch the video: Show Highlights: A current hot topic on the forum is the value of CID or Certified Interconnect Designer Read Article
    Continuous Integration: An Implementation Using Altium Designer In a previous article, Continuous Integration and Deployment in ECAD, we discussed the concept of Continuous Integration while testing within a build system (leveraging Git). In this article, we will take a deeper look at how to set this up and run these “tests” against one’s PCB design project. Continuous Integration Tests: Revisited In Software Engineering, the purpose of implementing Continuous Integration into a workflow is to prevent one’s Read Article