On Track: The Increasing Complexity of PCB and The Design Techniques You'll Need to Keep Up

Created: July 25, 2017
Updated: March 16, 2020

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Five Tips Guaranteed to Reduce PCB Design Time Most engineers and PCB designers are creatures of habit. Once a roadmap has been prepared for creating successful products, that is the road most often traveled. We often don’t have the time to experiment with new techniques or look for new, innovative ways to accomplish tasks, and while that is not always a bad thing, it does not bode well if our competitors are creating successful products faster and cheaper than we are. To maintain your Download PDF

Using Net Ties to Meet PCB Design Requirements The Net Tie is a Component Type that allows PCB Engineers and Designers flexibility when Handling a Variety of Design Challenges. This Paper Explores the Advantages to using Net Ties in Altium Designer to Join Multiple Nets (shorts) Into One Single Net at Very specific Locations in the PCB. TOPICS IN THIS SOLUTION Using Net Ties in PCB Design Types of Net Ties Using Net Ties to Meet PCB Design Requirements: Defining a Net Tie component can just Download PDF

Unified Platform Datasheet Altium Designer has been built from the ground up as a powerful, single-application electronics development environment that contains all the advanced design tools you’ll need to capture and simulate hardware, design PCBs, collaborate with MCAD, manage your ECAD data and documentation, as well as manage your designs from concept to production. It’s all there in a single, unified design platform. TOPICS IN THIS SOLUTION Unified Schematic and PCB Download PDF

Assembly Variants Management Systems Keeps Designs Synchronized Altium Designer gives you a robust centralized variant management system. You can define any number of design variations of a base design, then manage component parameters and configure the variant components as fitted, not fitted, or alternate parts. As these variants share the same bare board and have impact on the assembly process only, we call these assembly variants. Now you will see how variant management in Altium Designer can harmonize Download PDF

ECAD Design Data Release Management There is no question that many of the our recent technological advancements, have been in fact within the communication realm! From the internet, cell phones, satellites, Facebook, and so on, it’s all been geared for us to easily communicate and collaborate. However, with all this technology in the palm of our hands, many companies today still struggle communicating their ECAD data releases. Whether it is to internally collaborate with peers and Download PDF

Manufacturing Outputs Documentation and Datasheet Who wants to send their masterfully designed PCB to their fabricator, only to be told that the board is un-manufacturable? This can happen for a number of reasons, including outdated supplier data, incomplete documentation, improper panelization schemes, or a lack of fabrication documentation. Instead of relying on different programs to design your PCB and generate deliverables, you need an integrated software platform that includes all the Download PDF

Storage Manager File Safety Guaranteed Learn how the ECAD storage manager in Altium Designer can help you to recover previous versions of a PCB design project and easily access all of your electronics design projects. How many times has this happened to you? You’re working on a project, when all of a sudden, you make some significant modification to it accidentally, and then save it, losing your previous work. In this document, we present a feature called Storage Manager a method that Download PDF

The Positive Impact of Supply Chain Visibility on Design to Cost The electronics supply chain environment makes PCB design to cost difficult, but engineers can accelerate their path to market with comprehensive supply chain visibility. Download PDF

PCB Importers: Import Wizard One task that has always proven difficult is moving electronic product designs from one design environment to another. Whether you’ve changed design tools or acquired designs from another company, there are a number of challenges involved in moving a project from one software platform to another, while maintaining design consistency. It’s a difficult and time-consuming process, but it has to be done. TOPICS IN THIS SOLUTION Hurdles when changing Download PDF

Altium WP PCB: Polygon Or Plane, Which Is Better? PCB designers have two choices when implementing large copper areas for power and ground regions: polygons or planes. Users often ask which is better for implementing power and ground nets, but both design features produce similar end results. Once you’ve decided which type of structure is most useful in your PCB layout, you can place the structure you need for your design using the right set of CAD tools in your PCB layout software. Altium Download PDF

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