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Siemens PADS® vs. Altium Designer®

Feature for Feature: Altium Designer versus Mentor PADS

Feature for Feature: Altium Designer versus Mentor PADS Take a look at the electronic design automation software and computer-aided design software landscape, and you’ll find plenty of options for PCB design software. Altium Designer and Mentor PADS are two popular platforms for professional PCB designers. These two platforms have a number of features in common, but the proactive design engineer should take time to compare how each platform will help ensure productivity. ALTIUM DESIGNER A unified PCB Read Article

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9:39 Five Reasons to Switch to Altium Designer Chris Carlson provides 5 compelling reasons to consider switching from your current EDA solution to Altium Designer. Watch Video

35:34 New Experiences of Part and Library Component Search Watch Video

How Integrated PCB Design Software Helps you Manage Documentation and Outputs

How Integrated PCB Design Software Helps you Manage Documentation and Outputs If you’re like me, then you’re a hardware fanatic. You’re the type that enjoys creating and watching your ideas come to life before your eyes. The last thing you want to do is sit behind a desk and create change orders, bills of materials, and assembly plans for your new product. What if there was a way to cut down the time required to generate these important documents? With deliverables and documentation requiring standardized formats and Read Article

43:36 Speed Up your Routing Phase with Altium Designer with David Marrakchi Watch Video

How Integrated Tools Ease Multi-board PCB Systems Design

How Integrated Tools Ease Multi-board PCB Systems Design If you’ve ever taken apart a computer, then you know that the entire system can’t fit on a single PCB. Most complicated devices used in a variety of applications are multi-board systems, and designing these systems takes imagination, planning, and the right design software. Rigid-flex PCBs are just another type of multi-circuit boards system, and the same design concepts when designing each portion of the board, as well as the flex ribbon that Read Article

Managing 3D models

Managing 3D Models for ECAD/MCAD Data Transfer Communication is tricky when oppositional semantics fail to play well together. This sentence is a good case in point. When ill stated, information is rarely understood. The same goes with software infrastructures. Many do not play well together when information in one is defined differently in another. 3D models of components for use by mechanical and electrical CAD programs are historically represented quite differently across platforms. This Read Article

Split PCB Plane Pours are Partial to Carefully Managed Connections

Split PCB Plane Pours are Partial to Carefully Managed Connections James Madison said that “philosophy is common sense with big words.” Big words can produce a mess if applied with the wrong syntax. Similarly, the ability to produce intricate PCB designs requires extraordinary vision, each minute step exquisitely accomplished through common sense. Common sense and, if you’re lucky, elegant design tools. PCB design tools able to make common sense from complicated layout rules promote efficient development Read Article

50:25 Altium Designer 19 Key Features We are pleased to announce the release of Altium Designer 19.0! An exciting new era of Altium Designer is here Watch Video

1:45 How to Switch Layers During Routing in Altium Designer 19 Learn how you can quickly change and switch between layers during interactive routing. To learn more about Altium Designer 19 Watch Video

Designing in an Intuitive Interface Leaves Time for Bright Ideas

Designing in an Intuitive Interface Leaves Time for Bright Ideas Keeping it simple with complex tasks demanding attention is challenging on a good day. Tools available to compute mountains of details with lightning speed is powerful but can be overwhelming if poorly designed. Powerful elegant tools move ideas into usage and benefit many. Many are benefited every day while using smartphones to communicate news, to navigate cars, and to keep scheduled calendar dates. Digital devices use printed circuit board Read Article

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Test Out and Validate High-Speed Designs with Signal Integrity Simulation

Test Out and Validate High-Speed Designs with Signal Integrity Simulation Sometimes the biggest onion can’t be peeled. It seems simple enough. You pick up an onion, a knife, and get going. It would be nice if all of life were so simple, and I suppose it is if you can just break each task into a simple series of steps. Along with intuitive tools, each step leads to the next and pretty soon you’re sending commands from your smart phone to your food processor before you get home. Signal integrity simulators feel like a Read Article

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