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Altium is paving the way for enhanced engineering by designing the next generation of tools unifying the PCB design industry. Whether you are a beginner learning what is a PCB, or looking to discover an easy to use drag and drop in browser PCB design software, how to get component data in real-time while designing a board, collaborative tools for systems engineers, interviews with industry pioneers, or the best PCB Design software, Altium has you covered!  Read the latest PCB Design information from the industry's leading experts.

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APEX/AltiumLive DFM PROF DEV: Design WITH Manufacturing Carl Schattke and Julie Ellis present how designing with manufacturing make the entire team from concept to fabrication a winning one, live from the IPC APEX Expo in San Diego. Watch Video
AT&S DFM Manufacturing Tour - AltiumLive 2022 Join Gerald Weis and Ube Sorgman on a tour of the AT&S PCB Manufacturing facility. They will walk you through Watch Video
Upverter for the Professional - AltiumLive 2022 In this talk Andrew will demonstrate some ways to use Modular Upverter to increase productivity for the everyday hacker up to the professional designer. Watch Video
Diabolical Footprint Mistakes and How to Avoid Them - AltiumLive 2022 Delving far beyond the basics, we’ll look at some of the more gnarly errors - and how you can avoid them on your next design. Watch Video
Berets: Balancing High Power with HDI and BGAs on a Family of Motor-Control PCBs - AltiumLive 2022 Designing a new ecosystem of small, high-power motor control boards which simplify and accelerate the development and deployment of feedback controllers for complex mechatronic systems. Watch Video
Common Fab and Assembly Design Errors To Avoid - AltiumLive 2022 Avoid unmanufacturable PCB designs, learn some corrective options in this session with Julie Ellis. Watch Video
Design Analysis using Simulations - AltiumLive 2022 Here's your first look to the exciting improvements included in Altium Designer 22. Watch Video
Ah, that's how it works! - AltiumLive 2022 Join Rober Feranec in looking at different ways at things such as tracks, stackup, vias, components, signals, power distribution, and other elements in electronics circuits and PCB layout. Watch Video
Documenting for Fab and Assembly - AltiumLive 2022 This session will take a deep dive into Draftsman capabilities utilizing templates and custom documents while also looking at the top items your fabricator, assembler, or manufacturer would like to see in these drawings. Watch Video
System Designing using Multi-Board Project - AltiumLive 2022 Take an in-depth dive into system design and implementation of multiple PCBs, demonstrating how to achieve board-to-board interfacing while meeting MCAD constraints using Altium Designer. Watch Video
Coping with Design Challengeswith an Intellegent Component Library - AltiumLive 2022 John Watson will demonstrate how to structure your component library for maximum product design efficiency. Watch Video
Digital Innovation: Improving Workflows Through Collaboration, Data, and Solutions | Keynote Panel - AltiumLive 2022 This panel discussion brings together stakeholders from unique electronic industry perspectives, including distribution, component manufacturing, digital component aggregation, and electronic board manufacturing. Watch Video
What is Target Z and Why is Power Delivery AC Not DC? - AltiumLive 2022 This presentation will immerse you into the world of using impedance to deliver resonant free power to a load. Along the way, you will learn why flat impedance is the best design, how to measure impedance, and what is wrong with vendor-supplied capacitor data. Watch Video
Avoiding Supply Chain Issues with Variants & Live BOM Part Choices - AltiumLive 2022 Vincent Mazur demonstrates how to use Altium tools to navigate the pitfalls and problems of Component Shortages. Watch Video
KEYNOTE: Where High Speed Meets High Frequency - AltiumLive 2022 In this technical session, Zach Peterson will explore some of the correspondences between high-speed PCB design and analysis as they relate to the fundamental concepts in high-frequency design. Watch Video
Altium Designer Best Practices (Part 1) - AltiumLive 2022 This session will review the benefits of organizing schematic design into a hierarchical top-down or bottom-up structure and the impact schematic directives and PCB planning has on PCB layout Watch Video
Real-Time Manufacturing Feedback in the MacroFab Platform - AltiumLive 2022 In this video, Joey Rodriguez will tackle the MacroFab platform's tools to show the impact of each design decision on the final manufacturing cost for a product at any volume. Watch Video