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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.
Conquer Supply Chain Challenges in
Altium Designer 22
Altium Designer 22 takes your PCB design experience to the next level with an expanded toolset and more advanced features. We’ve added new features to help you select parts that are readily available, reduce manual design tasks, and easily share your design files across your extended team.
Supply-Chain
Use supply-chain connected design tools to quickly find and place new parts. View real-time distributor data to ensure your parts are always in-stock.
Part Insights Experience
Avoid redesign and manufacturing delays due to supply-constrained components using Part Insights Experience. Access over 300 distributors and 1 billion parts to find the best options for your designs.
Component Health Monitor
Keep your library current with the new Component Health Monitor feature.
Altium 365 Workspace
Securely share designs and collaborate with stakeholders without purchasing extra licenses using your Altium 365 Workspace.
With new smart features, you can be more productive than ever as you optimize your PCB design. Check out all the details on our newest features.
As semi-additive processes gather steam, the industry discusses the risks from a fabrication perspective and how industry standards must adapt to these advanced processing capabilities.
Kella offers a short tour through the PCB design process for high speed boards. There are some front-end engineering tasks to complete to help ensure success.
High-Speed Design Professional Development Course Included with Altium Designer
Join PCB design expert, Zach Peterson, as he hosts an interactive Professional Development Course on high-frequency design and signal integrity. This is an exclusive weekend-only offer available through Sunday with your online purchase of Altium Designer. Sessions will be conducted in English and will be limited to 25 attendees.
Continuing from our previous PDN simulation tutorial, Zach Peterson shows how to analyze transient responses in SPICE and how to correlate these to specific frequency ranges in the PDN impedance spectrum.
Biden Administration recognizes importance of PCB onshoring
A press release from IPC applauds two recent reports from the US government recognizing the importance of PCB/PCBA manufacturing, highlighting the importance of on-shored production capacity.
In response to the Ukraine crisis, the US and Taiwanese governments have agreed on technology sanctions and will not be exporting advanced semiconductors to companies working in the Russian defense industry.
The open-source computer instruction set architecture is seeing increased adoption, and big chipmakers expected to jump on the bandwagon to support advanced applications like AI.
NIST researchers have developed a system that allows commercial electronic components to operate in closer proximity to super-cooled superconducting qubits in quantum computers.
Carl Bugeja joins host Zach Peterson to discuss his most interesting projects, favorite videos, and how he approaches hobby designs in his Youtube videos.