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Altium Live Connect Image AltiumLive is Back...Save the Date! AltiumLive is Back..and Better than Ever! Altium is happy to announce that AltiumLive is back! Many of you have been eagerly waiting to hear about our plan for our annual users conference that typically takes place in October. For a variety of reasons, including the shifting landscape of public health conditions, we have moved AltiumLive San Diego to January 26-28, 2022. In an all new and expanded format, AltiumLive will be a hybrid conference Read Article
How To Learn PCB Design How To Learn PCB Design This handy compilation of PCB design learning resources will keep your PCB design skills on top of the game. 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
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AltiumLive Why You Should Be There AltiumLive Why You Should Be There October of 2019 will mark the third year since Altium kicked off what’s become one of the most exciting PCB Design Conventions around. 2017 is when I first heard that Altium was going to conduct what at that time was a two-day convention and that it was in conjunction with the release of Altium 18—which anyone who works with Altium knows was a significant upgrade and improvement in the software. I thought all this was going to be a never-ending Read Article
OnTrack Newsletter: A Look Under the Hood at Altium Designer 19, and Is IPC CID Important for Your Career? - December 2018 OnTrack Newsletter: A Look Under the Hood at Altium Designer 19, and Is IPC CID Important for Your Career? - December 2018 OnTrack Newsletter December 2018 VOL. 2 No 8 ALTIUM ® 19 HAS ARRIVED! See the New Features of Altium 19 Altium 19 has just been released and features several exciting new and enhanced capabilities. Get a first look here at some of the functionality that defines the latest version of Altium . READ FULL ARTICLE IS IPC CID TRAINING IMPORTANT FOR YOUR DESIGN CAREER? Insights from CID IPC Trainer, Stephen Chavez Stephen Chavez is the lead electrical Read Article
Is IPC CID Training Important for Your Design Career? Is IPC CID Training Important for Your Design Career? Stephen Chavez is the lead electrical engineer that oversees a global design team for a well known military aerospace company in the greater Phoenix, AZ area. He is a highly skilled engineer and PCB designer whose passion for board design goes beyond his day-to-day work. He is a member of the IPC Designers Council Executive Board, is CID, CID+, and CIT certified, a CID trainer for Eptac, and a columnist for the PCB007 magazine. In this article Read Article
AltiumLive University Day - Multi-Board Design Basics AltiumLive University Day - Multi-Board Design Basics . Read Article
How to Become a PCB Designer in Today’s World How to Become a PCB Designer in Today’s World For the engineer that likes to solve puzzles, create something physical, and appreciates electronics, PCB design as a career might be right for you. Even if you're not a PCB designer or layout engineer, and instead you want to work as an electrical engineer, there is still room for you to work with PCB designers. Today's teams are multifunctional and they need to collaborate across disciplines. It's better to think of electronics development Read Article
The Best Easily Available PCB CAD Design Software Training Resources The Best Easily Available PCB CAD Design Software Training Resources Congratulations! You’re about to start working on a new CAD system, and you are chomping at the bit to design something. Like a 10-year old waking up on the morning of their birthday, you can hardly wait to rip the wrapping off the box and get started. Once you’re seated in front of your new software though, you begin to worry. How do you open up a part to work on it, and is it even called a “part” in this system? How do you create a simple Read Article
PCB Design, Robotics, and Video Tips: OnTrack Newsletter May 2017 PCB Design, Robotics, and Video Tips: OnTrack Newsletter May 2017 On Track Newsletter May 2017 VOL. 1 No 2 Welcome to the second edition of the Altium On Track newsletter. This month we feature a very special PCB designer, Cherie Litson, who is a CID and CID+ Master Trainer. We also take you inside the FIRST Robotics Competition and Team Mechanical Mayhem 1519. We’ve also launched a new monthly On Track educational video series which offers design tips and tricks. As usual, there’s plenty of Brain Food and a Read Article
PCB Designer Cherie Litson: Accomplished BSEE and Master CID Instructor PCB Designer Cherie Litson: Accomplished BSEE and Master CID Instructor Cherie Litson is an accomplished BSEE and Master Instructor for CID and CID+ training at Eptac. She has enjoyed a long career as a PCB design professional and now spends her days training and certifying other designers. Here she shares how she became a designer, her thoughts on differences between men and women in business approach, and what advice she would offer to others thinking about a PCB design profession. Warner: Cherie, can you tell us Read Article
PCB Design Techniques to Help you Keep up with Increasing Complexity PCB Design Basics to Help You Get Ahead PCB Design Basics in a Growing World Between the advent of the Internet of Things (IoT) and wearable electronics, PCB design requirements are becoming more and more advanced. You need to keep your eye on the design techniques that can make PCBs smaller, faster, and more flexible in order to keep up with the times. In addition to keeping abreast of design trends, you will likely need training in how to implement the techniques they require. Do you Read Article
To Take Training or Not to Take Training? There Is No Question PCB Creativity and Training: To Take A Training Class or Not? When it comes to learning a new PCB design software, how important is it to take a training class? Something I often ask new users, infrequent users, or prospects considering Altium, is if they thought about taking a training class. The answer predictably starts with a grimace, proceeds with a hesitant “yes, however…”, and typically concludes with multiple objections regarding time away from work, cost of the course, and other associated expenses Read Article