Weekly Digest: Altium at IPC Apex Expo Week in Review

In this article, we’re rounding up and collecting everything we’ve published this week for our readers. It’s the weekend and a lot of people are coming out of IPC APEX and DesignCon. See our very own Judy Warner discuss our goals for the industry in this video interview by Kelly Dack at I-Connect007. Get ready to expand your knowledge. It’s been a busy week!

Altium Videos on YouTube

Stop by the Altium or Altium Designer^® Youtube Channels and keep up to date with videos and clips to help you in your PCB design career. While you’re there, please remember to subscribe!

New this week in the Altium Youtube Channel:

• Printed Electronics Support
• Stackup Impedance Profiles Manager
• How to set-up blind and buried vias
• Real Time Trace Corrections
• Routing Follow Mode
• Components Panel
• Part Search Panel

New this week on the Altium Youtube Channel:

• How Do You Design Printed Electronics?
• Innovation in PCB Design

Did you know, there is also an Altium Academy Channel too. Watch the Getting Started with Altium playlist, a helpful series if you are just getting started with Altium software.

Articles on the PCB Design Blog

For the avid reader there’s never a shortage of deeply informative materials on our PCB Design Blog. Click to read new articles on the Altium Blog and while you’re there please leave a comment. We love to improve with your feedback.

• Pipelining Your Design File Process; Manufacturing Output Files
• Looking Forward: What to Expect After Switching from OrCAD
• Take Charge of Your PCB Design with This Bill of Material Software Free Trial
• How to Design With a DP83848C Ethernet PHY
• PCB Design Tips for SRAM Users: How to Prevent Data Loss

The OnTrack Podcast with Judy Warner

In the current podcast, Judy talks with John Andresakis, Senior Technical Marketing Leader, Interconnect Solutions at DowDupont. The topic is embedded capacitance, and while the technology is nothing new, advanced materials and widespread adoption has made the technology more feasible and affordable than ever. For more info, to listen, or to simply get John’s recommended list of resources, click here.  

The OnTrack Podcast dissects relevant topics and issues for pcb designers from schematic capture all the way to the manufacturing floor. The OnTrack Podcast brings you tips, information and guidance from industry leaders such as John Watson, Chris Hunrath, Lee Ritchey, Rick Hartley, Eric Bogatin and many many more. You can listen to or watch the podcast on all your favorite podcast apps including Podbean, iTunes, Stitcher, Spotify, TuneIn, Youtube, PlayerFM and if you can’t find us, let us know!

Make Time for your Personal and Career Development

Did you go to IPC APEX this week? Share your stories and tag @AltiumJudy and @Altium on Twitter. To get an inside look at the show this week, watch Judy Warner and Kelly Dack discuss Altium’s mission to transform the industry and bring together the community of PCB designers worldwide.

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