Project Management

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Project History in Altium 365

Project History in Altium 365 Altium 365’s Project History shows changes to the project's documents and the timeline since the project was launched. Read Article

PCB sharing

PCB Sharing and What Data You Can Share in Altium 365 Open up your design data files with your team using the PCB sharing features in Altium 365. Read Article

Altium 365 Demonstration

Increasing PCB Prototype Iteration Speed in the Cloud Stay productive and increase PCB prototype iteration speed with the right set of design collaboration utilities in your PCB design software. Read Article

How Multifunctional Hardware Teams Can Collaborate

IoT PCB Design: It's More Than Just Hardware Development Altium 365 makes IoT PCB design and coding easy. Share your designs, control revisions, and fork projects directly in Altium Designer or through Altium Concord Pro. Read Article

Remote work and git for hardware development with Altium 365

Breaking Out of the Office with Altium 365 A few years ago, I was working as a PCB design engineer for a company in the stunning Italian countryside, designing power inverters for water pumps. The work was as intricate as it was commensurately fulfilling, with every board presenting an extremely sharp dI/dt and stringent EMC and reliability requirements. Driving to work each day, with the hills slowly emerging from behind the freeway to reveal the tiny dot that was our factory, was scenic Read Article

pcb cost estimate

Designing to Meet a Target BOM Price and PCB Cost Estimate Creating an accurate PCB cost estimate for design, components, production, assembly, shipping, and even firmware can be a challenging task for new designers. Even established organizations can have trouble getting it right as it's hard to anticipate every problem that can arise during a design. Manufacturers can help you handle the production and assembly portion of a project, but any time a new design needs to be put into production, components Read Article

Generate Gerber Files in Altium Designer Step-by-Step from Schematic to PCB

How to Make PCB Gerber Files in Altium Designer Step-by-Step Once you've got your PCB layout finished and you're ready to start preparing for manufacturing, one of the critical steps is to create PCB Gerber files. These files are used by PCB manufacturers to prepare stencils for photoresist exposure and subsequent etching. When you're ready to create your Gerber files, you need the right set of CAM processor tools that can take data from your PCB layout. Altium Designer helps make the process for Read Article

Learn to Manage Your BOM Inventory for Smooth Production Runs

Learn to Manage Your BOM Inventory for Smooth Production Runs I’ve recently gotten into fermenting kombucha (which, I am well aware, is about the most hipster thing I could have said), and I ordered a handful of different-sized mason jars online in order to store it. Mason jars are reliable as ever but with the increasing popularity of home-fermenting and brewing, they’re one part of an industry trying to optimize how we store. During my ordering process alone, I had twelve tabs open of marginally different Read Article

PCB Design Guide for Engineers: Part 1 The Team

PCB Design Guide for Engineers: Part 1 The Team INTRODUCTION What people are involved in the PCB design & engineering process? Surely all of the tasks of creating a PCB layout don’t just fall on single pair of shoulders. There are many engineering and scientific disciplines that must be harnessed and managed to bring your vision to life. As the project engineer, your first task is identifying your team. PCB Design Guide for Engineers Part 1: The Team This PCB Design Guide for Engineers: Part 1 Read Article

How to Build a Hardware Startup: Beginning to Realize Your Electronics Dreams

How to Build a Hardware Startup: Beginning to Realize Your Electronics Dreams Every hardware startup has questions on funding, sourcing, testing, and manufacturing. Let’s go step-by-step through the main questions. Read Article

Electronic Hardware Startup Tips: From Idea to Manufacturing

Electronic Hardware Startup Tips: From Idea to Manufacturing AI, smart devices, proliferation of high compute to the edge, and ubiquitous integration of just about every electronic devices have put us solidly in what some call the Fourth Industrial Revolution. The history of the past two decades of technological development is one where the barriers to entry into market have never been lower, including for innovators who have never built a piece of hardware. Therefore, it should come as no surprise that we Read Article

Manufacturing Startup Costs: Budget for Tests and Success

PCB Manufacturing Startup Costs: Budget for Tests and Success So you have a hot new hardware device that you plan to manufacture and bring to market? Maximize your chances of success by budgeting your startup costs. Read Article

Altium Digital Transformation

The Last Mile of Digital Transformation Made Easy We live in an era fueled by innovation. In almost every aspect of our lives, we are constantly being reminded about the pace of innovation, its relentless acceleration touted in the news, its benefit on our lives, and the lifestyles our gadgets enable. For those of us whose business is electronic product design, the impacts of rapid innovation, changing market conditions, and customer expectations also permeate every aspect of our working Read Article

Digital transformation electronics

What is Digital Transformation in PCB Design? Innovative companies are embracing digital transformation at the enterprise level. Read Article

Using the Sun to Keep Your Clunker Happy

Using the Sun to Keep Your Clunker Happy A lot of folks have transitioned to working from home either part time or completely which means they sometimes leave their automobiles in the driveway for days or weeks at a time. I, for one, am definitely in this camp. I could easily go for weeks without starting my clunker which means, very frequently, my car battery will die. We usually combat this problem by periodically turning on our cars and drive around the block a few times. At the best Read Article

Designing a Home Automation IoT device

Designing a Home Automation IoT Device In this article Ari Mahpour walks you through how to create your own IoT connected device and control other smart home products. Read Article

What's New: Altium 365 November 2021 Updates

What's New: Altium 365 November 2021 Updates Check out the latest development and new features on Altium 365. Open Beta features include Schematic Compare, Gerber Compare, MCAD CoDesigner Updates and more. Read now to learn more. Read Article