Project Management

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Altium 365 Easy Collaboration

Best Practices in Hardware Version Control Systems Read more about some best practices for using hardware version control systems in electronics design. 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

Getting Started with ESP8266

Getting Started with ESP8266 A project overview on getting started with the ESP8266 device. Expert Ari Mahpour reviews the benefits of using a device such as the NodeMCU board from HiLetgo and how to get up and running with a few examples. Read Article

Getting Started with MQTT

Getting Started with MQTT Check this out. This is a new project overview demonstrating MQTT by expert Ari Mahpour. In this article, Ari answers the What and Why of MQTT, and gives guidelines to get your project started. Read Article

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

Low-Cost Verification for Digital and Analog Filters

Low-Cost Verification for Digital and Analog Filters In Low Cost Solutions for Automated Hardware in the Loop Testing, we reviewed the idea of using low-cost testing devices to validate our hardware designs. In this article I want to zoom in on a specific application that can have a high barrier to entry when it comes to verification: Digital Signal Processing (DSP), specifically signal filtering. Rather than belabor the topic of DSP I will define it simply as “digitizing signals that come into 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

Guide to version control

Guide to Choosing Version Control For Your PCB Design Projects If you’re deciding on a version control system for your hardware projects, use the cloud-connected PCB design and management environment in Altium 365. Read Article

Sharing PCB design files

Best Practices for Sharing PCB Files vs. Sharing PCB Projects When is it best to share files vs. sharing projects for your PCB design? Altium 365 gives you both options in your web browser or within Altium Designer. Read Article

Printed circuit board defects

Common Printed Circuit Board Defects You Can Fix in the Cloud Solve these printed circuit board defects you can fix with the cloud collaboration tools in Altium Designer. Read Article

Assembly: The Last Step In The PCB Product Development Process

Assembly: The Last Step In The PCB Product Development Process As pointed out in previous articles, design is the first step in the PCB product development process, so the board designer needs to understand how the downstream processes will impact his design processes/selections/decisions, and this understanding needs to encompass both technical and financial considerations. These deliberations are viewed and weighted as trade-offs. What might make sense from a technical standpoint may not always make sense Read Article

Sharing Inside and Outside Your Altium 365 Workspace

Sharing Inside and Outside Your Altium 365 Workspace Forget about sending emails with design data. You can use sharing in Altium 365 to give anyone access to your PCB projects within a web browser. Read Article

Altium 365 workspace

How Your Altium 365 Workspace Keeps You Organized If you need to collaborate with multiple users, here’s how to use your Workspace in Altium 365 to organize your projects. Read Article

PCB design collaboration and time management

Top 4 Time Wasters in PCB Design Collaboration PCB design collaboration doesn’t have to be difficult when you use the right project management and communication tools. Read Article

How to involve customers in product development

How to Involve Customers in PCB Product Development Follow our guide to learn about how to involve customers in your PCB product development process. Read Article

PCB manufacturing quality control

Managing PCB Manufacturing Quality Control in the Cloud You and your manufacturer can track quality problems and correct at the design level when you use cloud tools for PCB manufacturing quality control. Read Article