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    Maximizing PCB Cooling with Best Design Practices for Surface Mount Heat Sinks Image Source: Flickr user bengt-re (CC BY 2.0) Just How Important Are Heat Sinks? It’s a hot summer day in smoggy Brooklyn… Your fan is in an awkward spot in your overcrowded apartment and you can’t shake the heat. If only you could restructure your apartment’s layout so that the fan is blowing air in your direction to cool you down. The same can be said for your PCB heat sink design if your surface mount technology (SMT) heat sinks are not Read Article
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    Design Prep: Centralizing Your Design Data Electronics design, like cooking, requires having the right ingredients in place to complete your creations. What if all that information was located in a single, centralized location so that everyone in the organization had access to pre-defined, pre-approved design ingredients to speed the process? Read on to learn more. I really like cooking. The satisfaction of tinkering with a recipe, and getting the flavors and balance just right. The Read Article
    How to Maximize Copper in Your PCB Design: The Pros and Cons of Copper Pouring Versus Placing Image Source: Flickr user billautomata (CC BY 2.0) There is a saying in copper pour PCB design, “Copper is free.” It means a PCB editor designer must think in reverse. A board starts off as solid copper, and the copper you don’t want is removed. It is faster to build, less consumptive, and less expensive to make a board that is mostly copper as compared to the same size board that is mostly bare. Picking the correct technique will make the Read Article
    Creating 3D Component Bodies in a Footprint Library In today’s PCB design process, you need to be able to integrate mechanical design workflows into an electrical design tool. Read on to learn how to easily create 3D component bodies in a footprint . In today’s PCB design process, you need to be able to integrate mechanical design workflows into an electrical design tool. Transferring inaccurate design data back and forth between the ECAD and MCAD worlds not only causes frustrations for both Read Article
    The Fantastic Four Make an Appearance at the IPC Designer Council Couldn't make it to your last IPC Council meeting? Read about some of the great insights presented during this months meeting including a look into the future of analysis in Altium Designer®. how's that? The Fantastic Four Make an Appearance at the IPC Council The Fantastic Four made a special appearance at the IPC Council - OC Chapter on Wednesday, March 2, 2016. Not the superheroes, of course, we’re talking about the four fantastic things that Read Article
    The Wild West of PCB Design - Part Choice Showdown Does your part selection process ever feel like a wild west showdown, where every stakeholder is out to protect their own self-interests at the expense of your own? Learn how to turn your part choice selections into a win-win for your entire design team with a new feature in Altium Designer® 16. Link Does your part selection process ever feel like a scene from a wild west movie, where every stakeholder is out to protect their own self interests Read Article
    Altium Designer 16 Is Now Available Altium Designer® 16 is here! This release is available now as a free upgrade to all Altium Subscription customers and can be downloaded on the Altium Products Download page. Not an Altium Subscription customer? Contact our support team now to upgrade. This release is all about tapping into your true design potential and includes powerful new features to accelerate your PCB design workflow. From productivity-focused enhancements to intelligent Read Article
    Rigid-Flex PCB Design - A Fabricator’s Perspective Do you have all the knowledge you need to design not just a proper rigid-flex PCB, but one that’s efficiently optimized for your manufacturing process? Learn how to avoid the 7 most common rigid-flex design mistakes from the manufacturing experts at Sierra Circuits! As PCB designers, we commonly approach rigid-flex design from our limited perspectives, concerning ourselves with streamlining workflows, saving space on board layouts, and choosing Read Article
    6 Things You Need to Have in Your Team’s PCB Design Library Components form the building blocks of our Printed Board designs, and making the right component selections can often make or break a project’s budget. Are you doing everything you can to ensure that your design is both maintained and updated on a regular basis? More importantly, how are you ensuring that only approved, ready-to-use components are being used in your current PCB designs? Read on as we reveal the 6 things you need to have in your Read Article
    Announcements: Altium Designer 15.1 Released We are excited to announce the release of Altium Designer®15.1, which includes new features and enhancements focused on productivity, documentation, and high-speed design. What’s New for High-Speed Design Altium 15 was all about improving the high-speed design process, and we’re taking that a step further in 15.1. Creating length matching rules is easier than ever with the new xSignals® Wizard, which will automatically configure your length Read Article
    Making friends with differential pairs A question arises when working with differential pairs, particularly when you inherit or import designs where the differential pair directives were not added to the schematics. Is it actually necessary to set up the directives in the schematic documents? A question arises when working with differential pairs, particularly when you inherit or import designs where the differential pair directives were not added to the schematics. Is it actually Read Article
    New Productivity Features to Take Advantage of in Altium Designer 15.1 Since the first release of Altium Designer® back in 1985 with Protel®, our focus has always been on improving your design productivity. Getting those designs from concept to completion as quickly and easily as possible is always a concern of yours, and a focus of ours in each new version of Altium . At the core of Altium 15.1 is a set of new features that we’ve been hard at work on. Without further ado, we’d like to present the new productivity Read Article
    How to Avoid the Most Common Errors in Your Schematic Design Process There are over 100 errors you can make in your schematic design process. Are you catching them all in your current design criteria review process? Read on to find out how you can better catch errors as a project manager or team lead. A Decade of Differences Schematic designs review processes were a lot simpler 10 years ago, and the schematic review process to check for errors didn’t seem to require such a huge dedication of man-hours. Over 10 Read Article
    How to Avoid Common Signal Integrity Issues in Your Designs Are you doing everything you can to resolve signal integrity issues in your high-speed designs? Read on to find out how to avoid the most types of signal integrity issues with board stackup and routing solutions for Altium Designer®. High-performance designs bring their own unique set of challenges in the world of electronics design. The Birth of High-Speed Design The increase in high-frequency signal designs is tightly woven with the steadily Read Article
    Announcements: Altium Designer 15.0 Altium’s Development Team is pleased to announce new major release of Altium Designer® 15.0. What’s New? xSignals® - For High Speed PCB Design and Length Tuning We are happy to present one of the key features of this release - . This feature specifically targets precise length measurements between two pins, including cases with intermediate components, and T-junctions. New Output File Formats and IDX This release also brings three new formats for Read Article