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Easily Create Your PCB Solder Mask in Altium Designer Easily Create Your PCB Solder Mask Layer in Altium Designer You’ve just finished the electrical layout of your board and now you are working through the final steps to prepare for PCB manufacturing and assembly. What steps do you need to take to get your board ready for production? Aside from generating deliverables like Gerber files, a bill of materials, drill files, silkscreen, and PCB assembly instructions, you’ll need to define the solder mask (sometimes called solder stop mask or solder resist) on Read Article
Use PCB Routing Tools With an Integrated Trace Length Calculator Use PCB Routing Tools With an Integrated Trace Length Matching Calculator If you’re a mechanical or electrical designer, you need CAD tools that provide accurate trace length and geometry calculations. Once you start working with high-speed or high-frequency circuits, propagation delay and skew become critical points to consider as you need to make sure your signals are properly timed throughout your nets. Altium Designer is the only PCB design package that includes an ultra-accurate trace length calculator for PCB Read Article
Schematic Drawing Software and PCB Layout Tools in Altium Designer Free Schematic Drawing Software and PCB Layout Tools in Altium Designer Every circuit board starts with circuit diagrams and schematic sheets. Your schematic capture software takes your component and footprint data and creates an initial layout, which you then route to create a complete circuit board. If you’re just getting started with PCB design, you need a schematic diagram maker that helps you quickly move component data into a new layout. You shouldn’t need to use multiple programs to move from schematic drawing Read Article
Comparison of PCB Material Properties for High Speed Design and HDI Boards Comparison of PCB Material Properties for High Speed Design and HDI Boards Looking for a PCB material comparison chart? Take a look at our comparison of PCB material properties for your next high speed or HDI PCB. Read Article
Best Software for PCB Design and Manufacturability (DFM) Guidelines Best Software for PCB Design and Manufacturability (DFM) Guidelines Getting your circuit board to manufacturing requires following certain manufacturability guidelines. Once you gain an understanding of DFM standards, you will be in a much better position to design your circuit boards to meet DFM expectations. As a PCB designer laying out a circuit board, you’ll find yourself having to manage these guidelines and standards to get your board through the manufacturing and assembly process. Altium Designer makes Read Article
Altium Rigid-flex Guidebook: Your Complete Design Guide Flex and Rigid-Flex PCB Design Guidelines and Assembly in Altium Designer Many electronic devices don’t live on a single printed circuit board. Flex and rigid-flex PCBs are used to link multiple rigid PCBs together into a single unit. This allows printed circuit designers to customize their board to odd enclosures, design motion into new devices, and provides unique form factors that are not possible with rigid boards. Many other common devices are shrinking, and the PCBs that power them are following suit. If you’re Read Article
The Best Schematic Design Program for PCBs The Best Schematic CAD Software for PCBs PCB design begins with a schematic, where you turn your design ideas into working circuits. When you use the right schematic design editor program to create your circuit boards, you can design and simulate your board in a single program. Once you use integrated schematic capture, you can start your circuit board layout and create real circuit boards. Altium Designer is widely considered the best schematic software in this regard and gives you all Read Article
How to Build a Circuit Board With Altium’s PCB Design Software How Are Circuit Boards Made With Altium Designer Your printed circuit board (PCB) design might be designed to work correctly, but you also need to make sure it can actually be manufactured. Although a PCB manufacturer will fabricate and assemble your circuit boards for you, making sure your designs are manufacturable is about encoding DFM specifications in your design rules. With the rule-driven design features of Altium Designer, you can encode DFM specs into your PCB’s design rules; this Read Article
1:44 Look No Further than Altium Designer for the Best PCB Design Software When it’s time to buy new PCB design software, you only want to buy the best of the best, and you’ll probably look through a PCB design software list to find the tools you need. Open source software carries zero price tag, but it simply isn’t capable of tasks professionals need to perform every day. If you’re considering a new PCB design software package, consider this first. You need all the tools the industry demands, and there is no reason to Watch Video
Power Delivery Analysis: Getting Started with PDN Analyzer Power Delivery Analysis: Getting Started with PDN Analyzer The content on this page refers to the legacy PDN Analyzer extension. To learn more about the workflow in the new Power Analysis by Keysight extension, please visit this page. If you’ve ever been involved in RF design, high-speed design, high current design, or all these areas combined, you know the importance of power integrity in your PCB. If power delivery in your next PCB design is a critical performance factor, you need simulation and Read Article
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