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In Your Altium Library, Multiple Part Symbols Ease Your Design Time Creating Multiple-Part Symbols for a PCB in Altium Designer How to create multi-part components and symbols in Altium Designer®. Build a symbol manually or use an advanced symbol generator to do the heavy lifting of symbol creation for you. Read Article
Old Software Doesn’t Need a Leash for New Supplier Parts Updating Old Software Doesn’t Need a Leash for New Supplier Parts Updating Keeping track of component updates is a big job, what with change announcements coming in from vendors and distributors in random announcements and emails throughout the year. Keeping track of random notices and having a good process for implementing them is also difficult. Using schematic and PCB editors, along with local and global libraries in an organized manner helps keep component information organized and available. Use of component Read Article
Introduction To PDN Analyzer Webinar Recap May 10, 2018 Introduction To PDN Analyzer Webinar Recap May 10, 2018 If you joined us for the May 10th, 2018, PDN Analyzer™ webinar then the following will be a recap, if not here’s what you missed. You can also view the presentation slides and recording. Key Takeaways about PDN Power Delivery Network () Design Issues Low supply voltage at load components. A low supply voltage at your loads can cause issues like processors outputting faulty logic. These things happen when there is an unexpected voltage drop Read Article
What’s New in Altium Designer 18 Webinar Recap April 19, 2018 What’s New in Altium Designer 18 Webinar Recap April 19, 2018 April 19th 2018. A beautiful thursday morning and a great day for an Altium Designer webinar. I gather my things and go to the recording studio... In case you missed our Altium Designer 18 live webinar, no worries. You can catch up here with the video recording and presentation slides. If you’re not a fan of videos I’ll try my best to summarize in the webinar notes bellow. Key Takeaways Performance Improvements Multi-threading Multithreading Read Article
True ECAD / MCAD Co-Design Will Eliminate PCB Design Placement Errors True ECAD / MCAD Co-Design Will Eliminate PCB Design Placement Errors Have you ever had a PCB design returned to you because a component that you placed conflicted with a mechanical feature? Missing even one conflict can cause a lot of grief when it comes time to install the circuit board into the final system. It certainly did in my case where that one part ended up in a location that ultimately wouldn’t fit in the device housing. The only way my layout would work was if I cut an opening in the enclosure for a Read Article
David Carmody’s DFM Report Integrating Design and Assembly David Carmody’s DFM Report Integrating Design and Assembly Want to learn about Design for Manufacturing (DFM)? In this Altium OnTrack Podcast episode David Carmody and Judy Warner talk about DFM Reports can proactively fix manufacturing issues. Listen in now. Read Article
Design for Manufacturing Design for Manufacturing When it comes to manufacturing, organization is critical. With so many different players involved in the design process (engineers, sourcing agents, manufacturers, etc.), design for manufacturing entails a level of detail that demands continuous communication and information exchange with the different parties involved. Click the PDF above to read more about Design for Manufacturing in this Ebook. Or read the original, full-length content here Read Article
BOM System Improvements BOM System Improvements In the past, many PCB designers were confined to tools that dictated when the Bill of Materials could be produced. But we know from years of experience that the Bill of Materials, or BOM, can change throughout the design process. We believe the decision should be up to you, which is why we strive to offer tools that embrace flexible and agile options for PCB designers and other professionals involved in the decision process. Click the PDF above Read Article
Modular Design Ebook Modular Design Ebook What will truly move the needle in your design process? Modular Design tools that bring productivity and scalability to your product design. Altium PCB design tools start each iteration with ultimate productivity in mind and that includes features that make the most of modular design. Learn more about Modular PCB design and get an inside look at what has made Altium Designer the designer's EDA tool right from the very start. Click the PDF above Read Article
With Software for Rigid-Flex Designing, You Can Define and Animate Your PCBs With Software for Rigid-Flex Designing, You Can Define and Animate Your PCBs Rigid-flex PCBs can open the door of possibilities wide open for complex form factors involving limited real-estate. If implemented correctly, you could effectively use each and every wall of any shaped chassis as a mounting surface for your PCB(s). Designing these rigid-flex boards in design software, such as Altium Designer, makes it easy to visually see how your components might interact with one another once actually in a flexed or folded Read Article
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