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Learn How to Design PCBs with the Best PCB Design Tutorials

Learn How to Design PCBs with the Best PCB Design Tutorial Let’s face it: PCB design is complex, and not all design software packages have the tools to help you be successful. Whether you’re creating a simple two-layer board or a complex high-speed digital system, Altium Designer has the design tools and PCB design tutorial you need to get started and succeed. You’ll have access to multiple PCB design tutorials to help you gain a better understanding of advanced features as you venture deeper into PCB Read Article

CAN-Bus PCB Layout Guidelines

Designing CAN-Bus Circuitry: CAN-Bus PCB Layout Guidelines There are three main components in a CAN-bus node: Microprocessor CAN-bus controller CAN-bus transceiver The CAN-bus controller implements all the low-level features of the network protocol, ISO 11898–1, while the transceiver communicates with the physical layer. Different transceivers are required for different physical layers, such as high-speed can, low-speed fault-tolerant can, or high-speed can with variable data rate. In a typical Read Article

I2C vs SPI vs UART for LCD screen

UART vs. SPI vs. I2C: Routing & Layout Guidelines If you’ve never worked with an MCU and programmable ICs, here are some routing and layout guidelines on I2C vs. SPI vs. UART. Read Article

An Introduction to Wheatstone Bridges

An Introduction to Wheatstone Bridge Circuits and Differential Amplifiers A Wheatstone bridge circuit is a simple device for accurately measuring resistance. In this project, Mark Harris shows how to work with these circuits. Read Article

buck converter simulation

Buck Converter Simulation in Altium Designer Are you designing a step-down switching power supply? It helps to perform a buck converter simulation during circuit design. Altium Designer makes it easy to perform a buck converter simulation directly from your schematic. Read Article

Successful PCB Design Engineers Use Altium Designer

See Successful PCB Design Engineers Use Altium Designer Altium is the world’s leading provider of PCB design software because Altium Customers achieve the products they set out to design. How does Altium fit into the picture? Hear from Altium Designer Customers directly and see their engineering journey up close, and learn a little more from these happy customers on Youtube: Why Altium? Hear It From Our Users. Altium Designer is Easy to Use Successful design engineers use Altium Designer because it is Read Article

Finding a PCB Electronic Search Engine for Your Component Needs

Finding a PCB Electronic Search Engine for Your Component Needs Maintaining proper components within your circuit board necessities becomes much easier when you have a real-time updating electronics search engine. ALTIUM DESIGNER PCB design software built for your electronic component search needs. When the time inevitably comes in every design journey, part data management will become a critical system that will require the utmost of ease and editability. Getting caught up in the manual editing web of part Read Article

Best PCB Design Software for Your Single Sided PCB

Best Single Layer PCB Design Software for Your Single-Sided PCB A one-sided PCB design needs the same attention to detail in its design as a large multi-layer board, it needs Altium Designer. ALTIUM DESIGNER The most powerful, modern, and easy-to-use PCB design tool for professional use. It may seem like the world of PCB design revolves around complex multi-layer high-performance PCBs or other exotic design technologies, but the need for single-sided PCB designs is as great as it ever has been. Their Read Article

Circuit Board Design for In-Circuit Testing with Jack Olson

Circuit Board Design for In-Circuit Testers There are many types of circuit board tests available in electronics manufacturing today, each having unique goals and characteristics. This article presents guidelines at the design level (schematic and layout) to enable the use of in-circuit testing (ICT) fixtures to verify proper component assembly. These simple test fixtures allow your board to be tested as its assembled, which helps identify and remove failed boards from your production run Read Article

Make the Free Switch and Import from KiCad to Altium Designer

Make the Free Switch and Import from KiCad to Altium Designer Free PCB design software can be a great thing, especially when you’re just getting started as a new designer or a hobbyist. As you gain more experience and you start working with more complex products or in a professional setting you’ll start to find that each KiCad and Altium Designer software tools have nuances, but there is only one that focuses on productivity for professional hardware engineers. If you have serious time constraints you want Read Article

Linux PCB Design Software that is Ready for You to Use

Altium's Upverter for Linux: PCB Design Software that is Ready for You to Use Cloud-based Altium Designer for Linux or Mac OS X PCB design software to give you the design tools that you need. You need to create a design for a printed circuit board, but you are having difficulty in finding schematic capture and PCB layout software that will give you the results you need on your Linux system. There’s great news for you though, here at Altium we’ve got what you need. It’s a cloud-based free Linux PCB design software called Read Article

Utilize BOM Management to Keep your PCB Design Right

Utilize BOM Management Software to Keep your PCB Design Right With Active BOM you can eliminate any guesswork out of your component browser and help you to start your PCB design right. ALTIUM DESIGNER A PCB design tool to keep your PCB moving forward through all stages of production. Are you tired of waiting for other people to give you feedback on your components before you can start your work? Are you tired of budget-busting eleventh hour changes on your design due to incorrect or out-of-date component Read Article

ASME Standards for PCB Design and Manufacturing

ASME Standards for PCB Design and Manufacturing So what does the ASME have to say about PCB design and deployment? As it turns out, there are many important points from the ASME to consider during design for manufacturing. Some important IPC standards for ensuring reliability are derived from ASME standards, while other documentation and drawing standards are specified explicitly in the ASME standards. Whether you work with electromechanical systems, the auto industry, or in aerospace, the Read Article

Planning Your Multilayer PCB Stackup in Altium Designer

Altium Designer: Your Multilayer PCB Stackup Planner Newer PCBs are rarely designed on one or two layer boards. With the high density of connections and the number of components that are used in modern PCBs, your next design will probably be a multilayer PCB. If your next device has an odd form factor, then you will probably be using a rigid-flex PCB. Both of these types of PCBs require the right stackup procedure. This means you need PCB design software with an intuitive stackup manager. When you Read Article

The Best PCB Router Software for Your Complex Designs

The Best PCB Router Software for Your Complex Designs Don’t let antiquated Printed Circuit Board routing tools slow down or even derail your design, use the best PCB router software to get the job done correctly and on time. ALTIUM DESIGNER^® A unified PCB routing software and design package that integrates the best tools, automated documentation, and production planning features. The ASME is one organization that specifies design requirements on all types of mechanical products. Issues like safety Read Article

Use Rules-Driven To Meet Your Component Placement Guidelines

Use Rules-Driven Design To Meet Your Component Placement Guidelines Modern PCBs require keeping track of a ton of design rules, and even more components. No one has time to keep track of every design rule under the sun. Other software companies make it difficult to force your design rules to apply to all of your tools, including your layout tool. Instead, unified design software can help you stick to your design rules and improve your productivity, ensuring that your finished PCB has the functionality you require Read Article

The Best Results Come from PCB Design Services Using Altium Designer

The Best Results Come from PCB Layout Services Using Altium Designer The power of Altium Designer combined with the professional services and resources recommended by Altium will give you your best design results. ALTIUM DESIGNER Software for PCB design services to make circuits come easy. You have an important design project ahead of you, but what you don’t have is the resources to get it done on time. Not only do you need help, but you also need a powerful PCB design system to get the job done as quickly and Read Article