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Learning Hub Webinars How to Speed-up Product Development with Reusable Circuitry

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How to speed-up product development with reusable circuitry

It's no secret that software developers often use completed code fragments from other projects for quick and predictable results. The same can be done for PCB Design, there is no need to spend time rewiring schematics or laying out components on boards you’ve done before.

Join us this webinar where you'll learn about benefits of the design reuse blocks approach as well as the Design Reuse panel that has replaced the Snippets panel.

WE’LL DISCUSS:

  • What are Reuse Blocks?
  • The benefits of using Reuse Blocks.
  • The new Design Reuse panel.
  • What about snippets?
Design reuse

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How to speed-up product development with reusable circuitry

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  • Hosted by Jan Grooten - Field Application Engineer
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  • Präsentiert von Manuel Valero - Field Application Engineer
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    Erfahren Sie mehr über die Vorteile von wiederverwendbaren Designblöcken und das Panel zur Designwiederverwendung.

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    Partecipa a questo webinar per conoscere i vantaggi relativi alla strategia di riutilizzo dei blocchi di progettazione, che hanno ormai sostituito il pannello snippet.

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It's no secret that software developers often use completed code fragments from other projects for quick and predictable results. The same can be done for PCB Design, there is no need to spend time rewiring schematics or laying out components on boards you’ve done before.

Join us this webinar where you'll learn about benefits of the design reuse blocks approach as well as the Design Reuse panel that has replaced the Snippets panel.

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  • The benefits of using Reuse Blocks.
  • The new Design Reuse panel.
  • What about snippets?

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Alexsander joined Altium as a Technical Marketing Engineer and brings years of engineering expertise to the team. His passion for electronics design combined with his practical business experience provides a unique perspective to the marketing team at Altium. Alexsander graduated from one of the top 20 universities in the world at UCSD where he earned a Bachelor’s degree in Electrical Engineering.

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Jan Grooten is an Electronics Design Engineer who graduated (MScEE) in Asic design at the University of Twente, Netherlands. Besides Altium, Jan’s work experience includes Ericcsson, Sony and Plantronics where he served as Electronic System Engineer with focus on product development for Bluetooth headsets, with specialisation in small Li-ion batteries and Power management IC's. Jan started his career at Altium in 2017 as Field Application Engineer and is a Certified Interconnect Designer by IPC Council.
 

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Manuel Valero is an Electronics Engineer with experience ranging from his own repair and IT businesses to working with multinational companies in the semiconductor and passive components branches; he has covered diverse roles like Repair Engineer, Product Engineer, Testing Engineer, Design Engineer, Product Marketing Engineer, FDE, etc.

He has quite varied interests, not just the electronics area; this go from bicycle riding, swimming, wandering, astrophysics, physics, biology and a long etcetera.
Having worked and lived in several countries, he finds himself comfortable in multicultural environments and enjoys working with customers.
 

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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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