Medical wearables need to be sleek, unencumbered, and compact; able to collect meaningful medical data with few (or no) wires attached to the patient. This creates demand for flexible PCB layouts. While you’re trying hard to push the limits of space, to use smart materials, and to minimize its footprint, it can be damn annoying when you fall out of a board outline (particularly when dealing with an irregular board shape). Read on to find out how
Designing a top-notch printed circuit board is your job. You understand what components need to be used, what materials are required, etc. On the other hand, your boss’s job is on the business side of things. They understand profits and losses and maintain productivity levels, etc. But they often don’t really understand the ins and outs of printed circuit board design. And since those technical aspects can have a significant impact on profits and
The Internet of Things is a new category of exciting gadgets and appliances transforming the consumer market. However, developing that smartwatch isn’t as easy as putting it on. PCB designers are encountering unique challenges when developing powerful hardware solutions for these products. These PCB’s have to pack performance into a small space while preserving reliability and product budget. Thankfully, recent improvements to an oft-overlooked
A source of PCB malfunctions during PCB manufacturing, especially in outdoor environments, comes from moisture on the boards. Fortunately, there are several options for protecting your boards when they are deployed. Read on to learn which is best for your application. I once had an outdoor sensor system with a custom PCB protective coating that would stop recording data for two hours at dawn every day. This was not because the board needed its
Explore Altium Designer 24 technical documentation for Fanout & Escape Routes and related features.
This page looks at the PCB Editor's support for length tuning - being able to match the lengths of routes, by inserting variable amplitude tuning patterns, to ensure that timing-critical signals arrive at their target pins at the same time
This page looks at the Situs Topological Autorouter, an integral part of the PCB Editor. It uses advanced topological mapping to define the routing path, then calls on a variety of routing algorithms to convert this human-like path to a high-quality route
This page provides an in-depth look at the ActiveRoute Guided Interactive Router - a key tool when routing your PCB that enables you to quickly produce high-quality results, that meet the design rules, all the while under your full control
This page presents a full listing of the release notes for each beta release of Altium Designer
This page looks at the Glossing and Retrace features in the PCB Editor. Where Glossing attempts to shorten the overall route length and reduce the number of corners, Retrace re-applies the preferred width and clearance requirements to an existing route
Explore Altium Designer 24 technical documentation for Strategies for Selecting the Routing and related features.
Explore Altium Designer 24 technical documentation for PCB Positional Annotation and related features.
Explore Altium Designer 24 technical documentation for Signal Integrity Rule Types and related features.
Explore Altium Designer 24 technical documentation for Placement Rule Types and related features.
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