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How to Automate Your High-Speed Design Process
Keeping track of individual segment lengths for nets, via depths, or pin lengths in a spreadsheet can be burdensome. Learn how to automate your high-speed design process with new technology in Altium Designer
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. High Speed design is one of the most challenging tasks that an electrical engineer can take on. There are any number of factors that can affect the way a high speed signal will respond. A misconception is that High Speed Design is a
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Really Bad PCB Design Advice to Not Follow
At Altium Designer, we’ve been in the PCB design software business for over 30 years. In that time, we’ve seen a lot of innovations—and a lot of mistakes. It seems every engineer has some PCB design basics advice to offer on laying out a printed circuit board, and unfortunately not all of it is good. Here’s a roundup of some of the worst PCB design advice we’ve heard. Avoid Via in Pad At first glance, this seems like sound PCB design basics
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Automating PCB Design Environments: How to Simplify and Automate Your PCB ECO Workflow
Shuffling different programs for your schematic and PCB layout design changes costs both time and money. Altium Designer
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tackles this issue with a unified design system that automatically transfers data between schematic and PCB using component links. Read on to learn how component links are increasing productivity by automating ECO procedures. Transferring data from schematic to PCB, or vice versa, is traditionally a task stretched across
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The Biggest PCB Manufacturing Trends We’ve Seen This Year
The field of new technology in PCB manufacturing is constantly evolving. Technology is improving, new innovations are being made, and better manufacturing methods are being developed. Methods that were commonplace yesterday may today be obsolete. How can you keep up? Well, here are some of the PCB manufacturing trends we’ve seen in 2016 so far. The field of PCB Manufacturing is constantly evolving. Technology is improving, new assembly
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The Peak of Engineering Efficiency is Now Available in Altium Designer 17
The Peak of Engineering Efficiency and PCB Design Technology is Now Available in Altium 17 The engineering mentality is one focused on efficiency and creativity. And whether you’re designing electronics in today’s autonomous vehicles or connected devices, the careful balance between art and science walks a very thin line. Sooner or later, you’re bound to hit a roadblock. Not in your ideas, but in executing those ideas efficiently in your tools
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7 Common Misconceptions about PCB Design
After years of PCB assembly, you probably know about a decoupling capacitor, a solder mask, and schematic symbols like the back of your hand. Right? Brace yourself. We’re about to challenge everything you ever thought you knew about printed circuit board design. Well, maybe not everything. Seven things. Everyone holds to certain misconceptions when designing: things they’ve been taught, things they heard, things they learned firsthand (right
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How to Easily Import Your Designs to Your Favorite Design Tools
One task that has always proven difficult is moving electronic product designs from one printed board design software environment to another. Whether you’ve changed PCB design tools or acquired designs from another company, there are a number of challenges involved in moving a project from one PCB software platform to another, while maintaining design consistency. It’s a difficult and time-consuming process, but it has to be done. Say a PCB has
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How to Automate Your Design Review Workflow and Process
Your typical design review workflow can be filled with endless hurdles, errors, and time-consuming processes without the right tools, but it doesn’t have to be. Learn how you can automate your design review and comparison process in Altium Designer
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. The increasing demand for smaller, more capable electronics has been a major driving factor behind the development of more complex, densely packed PCBs. Although EDA software is regularly updated to
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Personalizing Your Altium Designer Experience
The “one-stop-shop” approach to electronics design provides engineers with all the PCB software they need, all at their fingertips. However, since there’s so much going on in the Altium Designer
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package, it can get overwhelming. How can you manage this plethora of functionality effectively? Modern PCB design software employ an ever growing collection of features and functionality. One of the leaders in this area is Altium, which provides users
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Defining and Using Multiple Customizable PCB Grids to Save Time on Your Layout Process
Relying on one grid size can require frequent step size changes, as well as a unit of measure change, and possibly even board origin location changes, in order to achieve all required grids. Read to understand how customizable grids can help to resolve this complicated and manual process. It’s possible to rely exclusively on your default grid for all aspects of component placement, trace routing, and mechanical or special object placement
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How to Simplify Your Routing with Pin Swapping
Optimal component placement goes a long way towards minimizing crossover connection lines. However, crossovers can never be completely avoided. Learn how you can simplify your routing process and avoid wasting time with crossover connections. Optimal component placement goes a long way towards minimizing crossover connection lines. However, crossovers can never be completely avoided. A large number of crossover connections make routing a PCB
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Draftsman: Make the Software Do the Documentation
You’ve routed your last route. Stitched your last via. Poured your last pour. You’re finally done with that board — time to celebrate! (Or at least move on to the next project.) Hang on! You’re not done yet. There’s still the documentation to be done – the fab drawings, the assembly CAD drawings, everything the fab shop needs to turn your carefully crafted work of art into a real electronic product. Unfortunately, the tools you have access to in
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Bugging Out - How to Minimize Your Embedded Design Debug Phase
Even if not all engineers will admit it, debugging an embedded system prototype is a lot of fun, so long as it’s going the way we planned. And while we cross our fingers hoping our board passes the first article inspection, it’s inevitable that some bugs will find their way into a design of any complexity. The debug phase in an embedded design can be one of the most challenging tasks for an engineer, as we juggle identifying issues with a project
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DFT in PCBs: Design for Testing
The overall cost to produce a completed printed circuit board can be broken down into several basic categories: the cost of manufacturing the blank PCB layout, the cost of components, the assembly costs, and the cost of testing. That last one, the cost of the PCB test, can comprise as much as 25% to 30% of the total cost of producing the entire product. Best practices for Printed Circuit Board DFT is key. By designing a product to have the
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Time-Saving Technologies for Your PCB Routing Workflow
Whether you’re new to electronics design or have thirty years under your belt, most engineers agree: interactive routing is the most challenging and tedious task in the PCB design process. Experienced designers enjoy the challenge, applying their creative puzzle-solving talents to win the many battles and ultimately the war. Designers who are new to the task and those who would rather focus on other aspects of design wind up struggling in
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IoT and The Three C’s
As our designs get more complex, they require more communication between the connected devices themselves and the design teams. The design community, ECAD, MCAD, and software, must come together to facilitate successful creation of IoT products. Collaboration between design teams doesn’t have to be a hassle. We should strive to maximize collaboration in our design process to create higher quality products. Every day we learn more about humanity
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How 3D Modeling Has Changed Electronics Design Forever
Designing electronics in the late 1990s or early 2000s was a very different experience than it is today. Older PCB designs often weren’t limited regarding real estate. They also often didn’t have as many mechanical constraints as modern designs do. While it’s true that electronic components are much smaller today than they were 15 to 20 years ago, the mechanical envelopes that they must fit into have gotten smaller as well. Today, it’s essential
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