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Learning Hub Webinars Advanced Routing Features & Techniques

Advanced Routing Features & Techniques

When routing signals, it can be challenging to get them from point A to point B. You can encounter many obstacles along the way: lack of space, noise, timing challenges, and more. To easily tackle these obstacles, you need a tool built for the advanced routing challenges you face everyday.

Altium Designer is an incredibly powerful PCB design tool. To help you get the most out of your experience with Altium Designer, join our webinar and learn advanced routing techniques.

We will cover:

  • Differential pairs
  • BGA fanout
  • Routing with rooms
  • Active Route
  • The new gloss and retrace panel
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When routing signals, it can be challenging to get them from point A to point B. You can encounter many obstacles along the way: lack of space, noise, timing challenges, and more. To easily tackle these obstacles, you need a tool built for the advanced routing challenges you face everyday.

Altium Designer is an incredibly powerful PCB design tool. To help you get the most out of your experience with Altium Designer, join our webinar and learn advanced routing techniques.

We will cover:

  • Differential pairs
  • BGA fanout
  • Routing with rooms
  • Active Route
  • The new gloss and retrace panel

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Kunjal studied Electronic & Communication Engineering at university, and currently works as a Technical Application Engineer at Altium in the Altium Bangalore office in India. Kunjal has over 20 years of direct experience with IPC CID Certification as an Sr. PCB Designer in the Space industry, various design firms, PCB Fabrication, and assembly houses.

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Aida works as a Technical Sales Engineer at Altium and is based in the Sydney, Australia office. Aida studied Electrical/Electronic Engineering and completed Master of Engineering (MEng) Field of Mechatronics, Robotics, and Automation Engineering from the University of Western Sydney (UWS). Aida also completed certificates in Microcontroller Programming, Project Management Principles and Practices Specialization from the university of UC Irvine California. Aida has experience as an Electrical Engineer, Business Development Manager, Project Manager, Operations Manager, most recently in the last 10 years prior to joining Altium working in Engineering Process improvement. The most important thing that she always focuses on in her career is communication and trust. Aida strongly believes that communication is the solvent of all problems, when the trust accountability is high, communication is easy, instant, and effective.

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Daniel joined Altium in 2019 as an Application engineer and moved into the Technical Sales role in the same year. Daniel provides technical assistance for sales, third party distributors, and customers in the Asia Pacific region (APAC) and is based in the Altium Tokyo, Japan office. Daniel has experience with PCB,  FPGA, and ASIC design in telecommunication and Information industries. 
 

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