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The Newest Upgrades to Altium Designer 22.7

The Newest Upgrades to Altium Designer 22.7 July 22, 2022 ONTRACK BI-WEEKLY New This Month in Altium Designer Altium Designer 22.7 gives users productivity during schematic capture with the newest productivity upgrades in the schematic editor. This month’s announcement focuses on new schematic capture upgrades: Control of Paste Mask Output for Variants - Users can now control Paste Mask outputs for a variant as part of that variant’s definition. When enabled, the paste mask for that Read Article

New Schematic Capture Upgrades in Altium Designer 22.6

New Schematic Capture Upgrades in Altium Designer 22.6 July 8, 2022 ONTRACK BI-WEEKLY New This Month in Altium Designer The new release of Altium Designer 22.6 brings important schematic capture improvements that further align Altium Designer with the needs of modern design engineers. This month’s announcement focuses on new schematic capture upgrades: Multi-functional Pins - Many modern integrated circuits have multifunctional pins. Now users can program pin names into parts and select pin Read Article

More New Features in Altium Designer 22.5

More New Features in Altium Designer 22.5 June 24, 2022 ONTRACK BI-WEEKLY New This Month in Altium Designer The newest features available in Altium Designer 22.5 have been released and are available for download. To upgrade your AD22 to the newest version and take advantage of all available upgrades, navigate to the Updates page from the Extensions and Updates window. Here’s a few of the changes you’ll find in the newest version of Altium Designer: Filtered Text Search - Have you ever Read Article

New Features and Upgrades in Altium Designer 22.5

New Features and Upgrades in Altium Designer 22.5 June 10, 2022 ONTRACK BI-WEEKLY New This Month in Altium Designer The newest features available in Altium Designer 22.5 have been released and are available for download. To upgrade your AD22 to the newest version and take advantage of all available upgrades, navigate to the Updates page from the Extensions and Updates window. Here’s a few of the changes you’ll find in the newest version of Altium Designer: More Productive - Improvements in the Read Article

Altium Helps De-Risk Your Bill of Materials

Altium Helps De-Risk Your Bill of Materials The new Supply Chain Resilience report from Spectra helps you identify at-risk parts in your BOM. Stay ahead of inventory challenges with Spectra. Read Article

Get your free EDDI report from Spectra, powered by Nexar

Get your free EDDI report from Spectra, powered by Nexar Spectra from Nexar brings you the Electronic Design to Delivery Index (EDDI), a free supply chain data report product. Gain the supply chain visibility you need with the EDDI from Spectra. Read Article

Track Supply Chain Data and More with Spectra from Nexar

Track Supply Chain Data and More with Spectra from Nexar A new product from Nexar offers free supply chain insights and analysis. Altium offers everything needed to stay ahead of the supply chain. Read Article

Staying on Top of the Supply Chain with Altium

Staying on Top of the Supply Chain with Altium: Avoiding Supply Chain Disruptions in PCB Assembly April 8, 2022 ONTRACK BI-WEEKLY Latest From Altium To help you navigate supply chain disruptions and identify at-risk parts, Octopart users can now access the new Inventory History feature. When viewing select components on Octopart, users can see how component stocks have changed over time across authorized distributors. Learn more about Inventory History on Octopart Conquer Supply Chain Challenges in Altium Designer 22 Altium Designer 22 takes Read Article

Altium 365 gets SOC 2 certification, new design tools, and more! March 25, 2022 ONTRACK BI-WEEKLY Latest From Altium After passing an independent audit from KPMG LLC, we are proud to announce that the Altium 365 platform is System and Organization Controls (SOC) 2 Type 1 certified. Altium 365 meets or exceeds important industry standards surrounding security, regulatory compliance, and data privacy. Learn more about SOC 2 certification New Advanced Design Features in Altium Designer 22 Altium Designer 22 takes Read Article

Parts Insights, Manufacturing, and more from AltiumLive!

Parts Insights, Manufacturing, and more from AltiumLive! During AltiumLive 2022 CONNECT, we announced Altimade, developed in partnership with MacroFab. Altimade provides a cloud-based solution for releasing projects to manufacturing in MacroFab’s network of North America factories via the Altium 365 platform. Read Article

Get the latest on the Altium Designer 22 release and more!

Get the latest on the Altium Designer 22 release and more! February 18, 2022 ONTRACK BI-WEEKLY The newest release of Altium Designer brings users new supply chain insights, DFM features, and additional simulation features in SPICE. The biggest enhancements in this newest release include: Simulation The SPICE simulation package in Altium Designer now includes Monte Carlo. Results can be displayed in an easy-to-read histogram for sensitivity analysis. Assembly Solder paste settings have been improved to Read Article

OnTrack Newsletter: Altium and IPC form Partnership, Fab Notes and Food for your Brain - November 2021 November 2021 VOL. 5 No. 5 Full Article | Watch Video | Brain Food IPC joins Altium as Newest Nexar Ecosystem Partner Recently IPC and Altium formally announced that IPC is joining the growing body of the Nexar ecosystem. In this interview, we talk to David Bergman, VP of standards and technology at IPC. He talks about how he thinks this new partnership will bring bi-directional value to both organizations. Read Full Article What's In PCB Read Article

OnTrack Newsletter: Design WITH Manufacturing, Diff Pairs, Brain Food – October 2021 October 2021 VOL. 5 No. 4 Full Article | Watch Video | Brain Food Design to Manufacturing with a Single Mouse Click Imagine if you could design your circuit board, run simulations, source your parts, generate an accurate BOM, generate your output files and simply press a “send to manufacturing” button all within your design environment? While that may sound like a far-off dream, this interview with Misha Govshteyn from MacroFab will give you Read Article

OnTrack Newsletter: Lifelong Learning, New Video Series, Brain Food – September 2021 September 2021 VOL. 5 No. 3 Full Article | Watch Video | Brain Food Resources for the Lifelong Learner A successful engineering career is one that begins with curiosity, is fueled by passion and devotes itself wholly to a path of lifelong learning. In this spirit, we focus this month's OnTrack newsletter to provide resources for you, the lifelong learner, and valued member of the Altium Design Engineering Community. Read Full Article Capacitor Read Article

5 Noteworthy Women in PCB Design

5 Noteworthy Women in PCB Design Women in technology is a hot topic, especially how to get more women involved in technology-related fields. What I find most interesting about this subject is what motivates people to pursue a career in technology in the first place. In general, there are a lot of men in this field and, as a woman in tech myself, I think attracting new people to the industry is always positive. I encourage people to pursue careers in technology, no matter their Read Article

OnTrack Newsletter: AltiumLive is Back! IPC and Altium Podcast, Design Articles – August 2021 August 2021 VOL. 5 No. 2 Full Article | Watch Video | Brain Food AltiumLive is Back...Save the Date! Altium is excited to announce that AltiumLive is back! There’s been many exciting and challenging things going on behind the scenes, here at Altium, that’s led to our decision to move from our typical October dates to late January 2022. Not the least of which challenges we’re facing is the changing landscape of public health concerns and our Read Article

Altium Live Connect Image

AltiumLive is Back...Save the Date! AltiumLive is Back..and Better than Ever! Altium is happy to announce that AltiumLive is back! Many of you have been eagerly waiting to hear about our plan for our annual users conference that typically takes place in October. For a variety of reasons, including the shifting landscape of public health conditions, we have moved AltiumLive San Diego to January 26-28, 2022. In an all new and expanded format, AltiumLive will be a hybrid conference Read Article