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PCB Design Tools Enhanced with an Advanced Free Gerber File Editor
To successfully manufacture today’s challenging PCB designs, you need to be able to create the latest Gerber X2 file formats in your design tool’s free Gerber file editor online. ALTIUM DESIGNER Getting manufacturing output files out is a breeze with the right CAD software. For over 30 years the printed circuit board design and manufacturing industries have relied on Gerber editor files to transfer PCB image information from design to
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Types of Printed Circuit Boards
Once you start designing Printed Circuit Boards, you’ll find that different applications require have specialized design requirements. In order to meet all your design requirements without sacrificing workflow productivity, you need PCB design software that is adaptable to any design requirements. Working with the best PCB design software with a unified design interface makes it easy to define and satisfy design requirements for your specific
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PCB Creators Look No Further than Altium Designer
When it comes to PCB design software, the best software packages aren’t sold piecemeal. You need an integrated software solution that includes the latest and greatest tools demanded by the PCB design industry. Whether you are new to PCB design or you’ve been in the business for decades, Altium Designer gives you the tools to produce top-quality PCBs for any application. ALTIUM DESIGNER An integrated PCB design software package that contains all
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Reusing Your Old PCB Designs in Altium Designer
Reusing or modifying your old designs is common among engineers and designers as this helps save you a considerable amount of time. There are times where it makes sense to reuse some or all of an old board, and you might as well completely recreate a device at other times. With Altium Designer, you can implement a comprehensive data management strategy that makes it easy to reuse old designs. You can even go further and use design methodologies
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DDR3 Routing Guidelines and Routing Topologies
Without volatile memory, your computer would require constant reading and writing to non-volatile memory like hard drives or Flash. Non-volatile memory is one of the things that makes modern computers so powerful and gives them the adaptability required for advanced tasks. Although DDR3 is now obsolete, DDR-based memory is here to stay and will continue to play a central role in modern computer architecture. With the right design tools, you can
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Superior Software for Designing a Blue PCB, or Any Other Color Circuit Board
No matter what color you decide on; blue PCB or other, Altium Designer is the PCB design tool of choice that you need to get the job done. ALTIUM DESIGNER For any solder mask need, count on Altium Designer The color of the circuit board is determined by the color of the solder mask that is used during manufacturing, and there are a lot of colors to choose from. Traditional green, red, and even blue are just some of the colors that are available
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Best PCB Design Software for Circular PCBs and Other Non-Standard Shapes
To answer the unique design challenges of circular PCBs and other non-standard board shapes, you need the power of Altium Designer. ALTIUM DESIGNER A PCB design tool guaranteed to get your circuit board right or keep it circular. It would make life easier if all printed circuit boards were the same size and shape, but that’s not the way it works. The reality is that PCBs come in every kind of size and shape imaginable, and the sky’s the limit as
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How to Make a Bridge Rectifier For PCB Layout
Power conditioning is critical when working with PCBs and for delivering power to your components. This seemingly simple activity can create signal integrity problems if your components are not designed correctly, leading to bit errors or other signal problems during operation. Your design software can help you avoid problems that might arise when you build your own bridge rectifier circuit for your PCB. Simulation and power delivery tools help
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Complete Guide to Types of PCB Vias: Designs and Routing
PCB vias are essential in a multilayer circuit board and routing between layers. Use the best toolset to define PCB vias for trace routing and circuit board layout.
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Guide to PCB Terminology for Altium Designer
Understanding more about PCB design starts with learning the lingo. ALTIUM DESIGNER When working with a PCB design software tool, it’s best you know what it is you’re working with. Whether you are just starting out in the PCB design industry, or you’ve been at it for a long time, you will more than likely run into terminology that you aren’t familiar with. There are technical terms in the electronic design industry that you may never have had
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Introduction to High Density Interconnection
This introduction to Happy Holden's HDI design guidebook gives a comprehensive introduction to high density interconnects.
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Troubleshooting Your Next PCB Design: Printed Circuit Boards Problems with Circuit Simulation and Analysis
Troubleshooting a PCB usually occurs after it has been received from a production run, or after it has been used for some time. Using design rules, error checking, and simulation tools during the design process can help you avoid receiving defective boards from a production run. You’ll also be able to diagnose and troubleshoot signal integrity problems that can arise from overlooking important design standards. Only the latest and greatest
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Any Angle Routing: When Should You Use It?
EDA tools have come a long way since the advent of personal computing. Now advanced routing features like auto-routers, interactive routing, length tuning, and pin-swapping are helping designers stay productive, especially as device and trace densities increase. Routing is normally restricted to 45-degree or right angle turns with typical layout and routing tools, but more advanced PCB design software allows users to route at any angle they like
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Power Plane and Ground Planes: Should You Use Your PCB Power Plane as a Return Path?
Power planes (sometimes called a power layer) and ground planes are important for more than just distribution of supplying power. When defining reference planes, both with impedance controlled routing and in managing return paths, your stackup might force return currents to pass into a PCB power plane before being coupled back to a ground layer. Even though you define a GND reference layer as a the basis for your impedance-controlled trace width
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Lies Your Fabricator May Have Told You
In some of our previous articles , we have talked about the various things that go wrong when a board design is turned over to the fabricator for manufacturing. Sometimes, the things that can go awry are due to design errors but the bulk of them can be ascribed to errors incurred during the fabrication process. This article will describe the errors that can be encountered and what, if anything, can be done to avoid them. We have previously
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Using Prepreg vs. Core for Controlled Impedance Routing
When I was first learning the finer points of PCB design, my first impression that the core was some type of special material that did not have close resemblance to the other layers. This is not necessarily the case, but designers need to work within the core/prepreg stackup constraints imposed by the PCB manufacturing process. Although you may be constrained as to how the layers in your board are arranged, you can choose which core/prepreg
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How the Fiber Weave Effect Influences High Frequency Signal Integrity
Orienting traces and choosing the right weave style can help compensate for the fiber weave effect. Watch out for resonances at high frequencies. Learn more in this latest PCB design blog.
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