Project Management

A Guide to Challenging Projects

A Guide to Challenging Projects Starting a project? Here's an expert advise from Mark Harris to get you through challenging design projects. Read this blog and see if this method will work for you. Read Article

Hardware development cycle PCB design

Prepare to Share: How to Make the Most of Collaborative PCB Design Before you start sharing design data, run through this checklist to make sure collaborative PCB design is a productive experience. Read Article

Getting Through Agile Prototyping in Agile Hardware Development

Getting Through Agile Prototyping in Agile Hardware Development If you’ve worked in software development, such as in web design or enterprise software design, you know how difficult it can be to get clients to understand the look and feel of a product from a static wireframe. We’ve had the same problem in recent projects, especially when the POC was not a technical person. The client ultimately had to take it on faith that we knew what we were doing and could deliver what we promised. There’s no substitute Read Article

Value chain management for PCB design

Making Value Chain Management Work for Electronics Exploring and tracking projects as part of value chain management is possible with the right set of managed design data tools in the cloud. Read Article

ISO 13485 Compliance: Tools for PCB Designers and Manufacturers

ISO 13485 Compliance: Tools for PCB Designers and Manufacturers Your Altium 365 workspace and Concord Pro can be used as part of a QMS system for ISO 13485 compliance. Here’s how cloud collaboration helps manufacturers. Read Article

CAN-Bus: Introduction and History

CAN-Bus: Introduction and History Take a look at our controller area network bus introduction. You'll learn about the history of CAN buses, their purpose, and how they were created. Read Article

World-Class Electrical Engineering Courses with Rolf Ostergaard

World-Class Electrical Engineering Courses with Rolf Ostergaard Denmark also has a robust tech industry. On several occasions, Speeding Edge partnered with Rolf Ostergaard, founder and owner of EE-Training, to present our two and three-day training courses in Copenhagen and Aarhus, Denmark as well as in Stockholm and Malmo, Sweden and Oslo, Norway. Read Article

Take Control of the Electronics Life Cycle with Cloud Collaboration

Take Control of the Electronics Life Cycle with Cloud Collaboration The electronics life cycle is a funny thing in that it relies so heavily on component lifecycles. Despite this relationship, every electronic product lifecycle follows a similar track as any other product. New products start with early adoption, later rise with sustained growth to peak adoption, and fade as new products become available with better features. Once you accept this fact, you can determine how to plan out your design and business Read Article

Altium 365 Library Migration: How it Works and Why You Should Use It

Altium 365 Library Migration: How it Works and Why You Should Use It Your libraries are the cornerstone of your PCB design projects. Without them, you wouldn’t be able to load up custom footprints, access schematic symbols, or much else for your PCB projects. When you need to share projects or existing component data with your team, what’s the easiest way to get the data you need without creating long email chains? Before working with Altium 365, we were stuck using tools like Slack, email, an FTP server, Dropbox Read Article

The Role Of ISU Petasys, A Multilayer Manufacturing Company in Realizing a Successful PCB Implementation

The Role Of ISU Petasys, A Multilayer Manufacturing Company in Realizing a Successful PCB Implementation John Stephens, Senior Vice President of Sales for ISU Petasys (pronounced “E-soo”), built his first circuit board in 1974. Like many others of us in the industry, he got a first-hand education in PCB design, and manufacturing and assembly by working in the aerospace industry. He explains, “I started in aerospace at Litton Guidance and Control Systems, where I worked in a process development lab that was basically a prototyping shop where we Read Article

GNSS + LTE Asset Tracker Project, Part 1

GNSS + LTE Asset Tracker Project, Part 1 In this week’s project, I’m building an LTE-based asset tracking system that could be used for a range of objectives, such theft prevention (and recovery), delivery or transit vehicle tracking, as well as predictive maintenance if data that is collected is paired with a suitable machine learning service. All of my previous projects have been two layer boards without any space constraints, but I miss building really compact high density circuit Read Article

Figure of Merit: A Way to Score Your Opinions

Figure of Merit Formula: A Way to Score Your Opinions Metrics are data, and statistically backed measures. It is always expedient to base decisions on data and metrics. But what if a metric doesn’t exist? Then you can create the next best measure: the Figure of Merit. The problem with opinions is that they are difficult to defend, and when used in conjunction with producibility, they often they vary from person to person. That is why the Figure of Merit process is so popular. For a small amount of Read Article

Setting Up Concord Pro Revisions and Lifecycle

Setting Up Concord Pro Revisions and Lifecycle Altium Concord Pro™ as a standalone product and brand name has been discontinued and the capabilities are now available as part of our Altium enterprise solutions. Learn more here. Precursor To help PCB Designers to become better at what they do, there are various Blog series on Concord Pro which are presented in such a way that they are first broken into by categories. These categories walk through the entire process of efficiently using Concord Read Article

Best Practices Cultivating a Healthy and Productive Remote Working Environment

Best Practices Cultivating a Healthy and Productive Remote Working Environment Don’t babysit your remote team. Watch and learn how to promote a productive remote working environment. Read Article

Advanced Tools to Increase the Quality of PCB Manufacturing Documents

Advanced Tools to Increase the Quality of PCB Manufacturing Documents Guest writer Peter Smith shares tips for getting the best out of Altium Draftsman^®. When I started at a company relatively recently, I (and the other designers) were less than impressed with the quality of the manufacturing datapack. It took some work, but we managed to convince the management that it was worth investing the time and effort to produce datapacks that were complete and looked really professional. At the time, we were on Altium Read Article

How to Use Blind and Buried Vias in Altium Designer

How to Use Blind and Buried Vias in Altium Designer The old adage of not being able to cram 10 pounds of whatever into a 5 pound bag is especially true when it comes to routing traces on a PCB design. Unfortunately this demand seems to be the norm anymore; everyone these days wants to increase the density of designs or reduce their form factor, or both! One way that you can help yourself is to use blind and buried vias when routing. These vias will open up a host of new routing options as you will Read Article

PCB design review and collaboration

PCB Design Review and Collaboration in Altium 365 Remote collaboration tools are everywhere these days, and now designers have access to a convenient collaboration system for electronics design. Whether you’re part of a design team, or you need to quickly execute any design changes recommended by your manufacturer, you need cloud collaboration tools that are immediately accessible within your PCB design application. Now with Altium 365, you’ll have access to a cloud-driven design interface that Read Article