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How to Design Your Rigid-Flex PCB Within a Board Outline
Medical wearables need to be sleek, unencumbered, and compact; able to collect meaningful medical data with few (or no) wires attached to the patient. This creates demand for flexible PCB layouts. While you’re trying hard to push the limits of space, to use smart materials, and to minimize its footprint, it can be damn annoying when you fall out of a board outline (particularly when dealing with an irregular board shape). Read on to find out how
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Heat Sink PCB Mounting: Maximizing Cooling with Best Design Practices for a Surface Mount
Image Source: Flickr user bengt-re ( CC BY 2.0 ) Just How Important Are Heat Sinks? It’s a hot summer day in smoggy Brooklyn… Your fan is in an awkward spot in your overcrowded apartment and you can’t shake the heat. If only you could restructure your apartment’s layout so that the fan is blowing air in your direction to cool you down. The same can be said for your printed circuit board heat sink design if your surface mount technology (SMT) heat
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Design Prep: Centralizing Your Design Data
Electronics design, like cooking, requires having the right ingredients in place to complete your creations. What if all that information was located in a single, centralized location so that everyone in the organization had access to pre-defined, pre-approved design ingredients to speed the process? Read on to learn more. I really like cooking. The satisfaction of tinkering with a recipe, and getting the flavors and balance just right. The
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How to Maximize Copper in Your PCB Design: The Pros and Cons of Copper Pouring Versus Placing
Image Source: Flickr user billautomata ( CC BY 2.0 ) There is a saying in copper pour PCB layout, “Copper is free.” It means a printed circuit board editor designer must think in reverse. A circuit board starts off as solid copper, and the copper you don’t want is removed. It is faster to build, less consumptive, and less expensive to make a printed circuit board that is mostly copper as compared to the same size board that is mostly bare
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PCB Design: Create 3D Component in a Footprint Library
In today’s PCB design process, your design and CAD tool needs to be able to integrate mechanical design workflows into an electrical design tool. Read on to learn how to create 3D component bodies in a footprint library. In today’s PCB design process, you need to be able to integrate mechanical design workflows into an electrical design tool. Transferring inaccurate design data back and forth between the ECAD and MCAD worlds not only causes
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The Fantastic Four Make an Appearance at the IPC Designer Council
Couldn't make it to your last IPC Council meeting? Read about some of the great insights presented during this month's meeting including a look into the future of analysis in Altium Designer
®
. how's that? The Fantastic Four Make an Appearance at the IPC Council The Fantastic Four made a special appearance at the IPC Council - OC Chapter on Wednesday, March 2, 2016. Not the superheroes, of course, we’re talking about the four fantastic things that
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Rigid-Flex PCB Design - A Fabricator’s Perspective
Do you have all the knowledge you need to design not just a proper rigid-flex PCB , but one that’s efficiently optimized for your manufacturing process? Learn how to avoid the 7 most common rigid-flex design mistakes from the manufacturing experts at Sierra Circuits! As PCB designers, we commonly approach rigid-flex design from our limited perspectives, concerning ourselves with streamlining workflows, saving space on board layouts, and choosing
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6 Things to Have in Your Team’s PCB Design Library
Components form the building blocks of our Printed Board designs, and making the right component selections can make or break a project’s budget. Are you doing everything you can to ensure that your design is both maintained and updated on a regular basis? More importantly, how are you ensuring that only approved, ready-to-use components are being used in your current PCB designs? Read on as we reveal the 6 things you need to have in your team’s
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Announcements: Altium Designer 15.1 Released
We are excited to announce the release of Altium Designer
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15.1, which includes new features and enhancements focused on productivity, documentation, and high-speed design. What’s New for High-Speed Design Altium 15 was all about improving the high-speed design process, and we’re taking that a step further in 15.1. Creating length matching rules is easier than ever with the new xSignals
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Wizard , which will automatically configure your length
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New Productivity Features to Take Advantage of in Altium Designer 15.1
Since the first release of Altium Designer
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back in 1985 with Protel
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, our focus has always been on improving your design productivity. Getting those designs from concept to completion as quickly and easily as possible is always a concern of yours, and a focus of ours in each new version of Altium . At the core of Altium 15.1 is a set of new features that we’ve been hard at work on. Without further ado, we’d like to present the new productivity
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How to Avoid the Most Common Errors in Your Schematic Design Process
There are over 100 errors a PCB designer can make in the schematic design process. Are you catching them all in your current design criteria review process? Read on to find out how you can better catch some of the most common PCB design mistakes. A Decade of Differences Schematic designs review processes were a lot simpler 10 years ago, and the schematic review process to check for errors didn’t seem to require such a huge dedication of man-hours
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Migrating from Altium Vault Server 1.2 to Altium Vault 2.0
Yesterday we released Altium Vault
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2.0. As Nikolay mentioned , organizations using the Altium Server with Subscription are eligible to upgrade to Altium 2.0. After you’ve contacted your Sales & Support Center, the next thing you’ll wonder about is just how do you go about migrating your data to the new Altium 2.0. It’s pretty easy actually; I did it for myself in about an hour yesterday afternoon and documented the process, which I’d like to
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Collaborative Design Part 3: Crossing the ECAD/MCAD Bridge
Interfacing between electrical and mechanical design software is one of the most important forms of design collaboration in modern electronic design. As PCBs become smaller and more dense, and as mechanical housing restrictions become tougher, there is a great need for seamless design data transfer. For the third installment in this blog series, we'll take a look at some of the options available for crossing the boundary between electrical and
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Is Your Company Data as Secure As Pictures of Your Food?
Consumer products such as smartphones carry priceless data of sentimental value and accordingly service providers offer backup services for their customers. In the business world, our data too is priceless in it's own way, in a way where it's much easier to attach a dollar amount to the value. So what are you doing to ensure your valuable data is taken care of? Every piece of data on my iPhone is automatically backed up. Your company data is
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Collaborative Design Part 2: Building a Better System
The effectiveness of design collaboration is mostly determined by the structure and organization of the system back-end. For the second part of this blog series, we'll take a look at the best structure and practices for version control, and how this really forms a good basis for collaboration. Enter in the lifecycle management and enhanced administrative functionality of a real design release, and you have an even better foundation. From my
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Improving support for users - and investing in support AEs
Many of you who’ve contacted Altium’s North American support team over the past two years may have noticed some changes. Notably, there were times when it was hard to get a live body on the other end of the phone, although generally once you did the advice you got was solid. For those users who resorted to emailing the team or logging a case through the support center (feel free to continue this practice), the wait time for a response could get
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Component Development best practices - Part 1
During the coming weeks, we’d like to post details about our PCB component development standards, practices and processes. Along the way, I’d like open discussion about how you develop libraries, and where do you see challenges. We’d like to pull everything together into more formal best practices and standards guide. With solder paste, a solder mask, printed circuit assembly, and PCB fabrication, there is so much to consider so let's dig in! Hi
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