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Sign Up for Altium Designer Live Webinars Sign Up for Altium Designer Live Webinars Welcome to the New Year! If one of your goals is to use Altium Designer® to the fullest extent, then sign up for a webinar and sharpen your skills as our in-house experts lead the way. Altium is an intuitive software and you can certainly get by figuring it out on your own. Or you can attend a live webinar, and get a chance to ask your questions. Sign up for individual webinars at the links below or read more about each of the webinars to find Read Article
Routing Differential Pairs in Altium Designer Routing Differential Pairs in a PCB Layout with Altium Designer Altium Designer makes routing differential pairs in a PCB layout and managing differential impedance between components quick and easy. Read Article
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OnTrack Newsletter: A Look Under the Hood at Altium Designer 19, and Is IPC CID Important for Your Career? - December 2018 OnTrack Newsletter: A Look Under the Hood at Altium Designer 19, and Is IPC CID Important for Your Career? - December 2018 OnTrack Newsletter December 2018 VOL. 2 No 8 ALTIUM ® 19 HAS ARRIVED! See the New Features of Altium 19 Altium 19 has just been released and features several exciting new and enhanced capabilities. Get a first look here at some of the functionality that defines the latest version of Altium . READ FULL ARTICLE IS IPC CID TRAINING IMPORTANT FOR YOUR DESIGN CAREER? Insights from CID IPC Trainer, Stephen Chavez Stephen Chavez is the lead electrical Read Article
From Mechanical Drilling to Laser Drilling of Microvias From Mechanical Drilling to Laser Drilling of PCB Microvias Miniaturization of PCB designs eventually forces a switch from mechanical drilling to laser drilling. Learn more about sizing vias for your next multilayer PCB. Read Article
Sizing Vias in Your Next Multilayer PCBs PCB Via Size Calculators: Sizing Vias in Multilayer Designs If you’ve ever opened up an old cell phone, you’ve likely noticed the intricate dance between traces and vias. These elements tango with the signal traces on inner board layers, and sizing them properly is as much art as it is science. Your vias are critical for accessing the inner layers in a multi-layer PCB. So how do you choreograph the balance between your vias, traces, and components? Your vias should be sized appropriately if they are to be Read Article
Split PCB Plane Pours are Partial to Carefully Managed Connections Split PCB Plane Pours are Partial to Carefully Managed Connections James Madison said that “philosophy is common sense with big words.” Big words can produce a mess if applied with the wrong syntax. Similarly, the ability to produce intricate PCB designs requires extraordinary vision, each minute step exquisitely accomplished through common sense. Common sense and, if you’re lucky, elegant design tools. PCB design tools able to make common sense from complicated layout rules promote efficient development Read Article