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Regroupez les composants dans des chabres pour un routage plus efficace Download PDF

Custom Footprint Creation in Altium Designer Download PDF

Conquering Your Design Demands with USB Type-C To learn more about this topic please see the full solution - Conquering Your Design Demands with USB Type-C - at Altium.com. Download PDF

Error Checking to Avoid Disaster PCB design has become increasingly complex—now containing even more rules with regards to electrical requirements and configurations. The PCB Editor in Altium Designer has some ways to verify that you are following these requirements, but if you manage to somehow step outside of them, you run the risk of creating an error. This paper highlights key tools that will help you keep track of violations in real time or identify where a violation may Download PDF

Five Tips Guaranteed to Reduce PCB Design Time Most engineers and PCB designers are creatures of habit. Once a roadmap has been prepared for creating successful products, that is the road most often traveled. We often don’t have the time to experiment with new techniques or look for new, innovative ways to accomplish tasks, and while that is not always a bad thing, it does not bode well if our competitors are creating successful products faster and cheaper than we are. To maintain your Download PDF

Net Clearance Rules Designers now have the ability to set specific parameters between same net objects when placing primitives on a board. Restricting space allows you to maintain clearance for primitives, and restricting primitives of the same net to a set clearance ultimately allows greater flexibility when forcing electrical primitives to interact with other electrical objects in a specific manner. TOPICS IN THIS SOLUTION Setting the Distance INTRODUCTION Download PDF

Altium WP Polygon Or Plane Which Is Better PCB designers have two choices when implementing large copper areas for power and ground regions: polygons or planes. Users often ask which is better for implementing power and ground nets, but both design features produce similar end results. Once you’ve decided which type of structure is most useful in your PCB layout, you can place the structure you need for your design using the right set of CAD tools in your PCB layout software. Altium Download PDF

Easing PCB Navigation with Snap Options Accurate navigation in PCB design software is one of the many pain points that PCB designers face during initial component placement and throughout the entire design process. Snap options not only ensure accuracy, but speed placement, helping the process to run smoothly and ease the designers’ frustration. TOPICS IN THIS SOLUTION Enhanced snap options in altium Advanced snap options Useful information INTRODUCTION In PCB design, there are many Download PDF

Streamline Document Creation and Management No more chaos now it's possible all the required documents can be created by running the output job file command of Altium so you get the same documents from each engineer in your organization every time. TOPICS IN THIS SOLUTION PCB DOCUMENT CREATION AND MANAGEMENT SCHEMATIC DESIGN REVIEW PCB LAYOUT MANUFACTURING PACKAGE CREATION PCB ASSEMBLY PACKAGE CREATION PCB DOCUMENT CREATION AND MANAGEMENT Document creation and management has long been one Download PDF

Time Saving Tips and Tricks in Altium Designer Part 2: PCB Design Environment Migration This Second Part of our Time-Saving Tricks and Tips Paper Will Guide you in Using Altium Designer® to Successfully Backup and Streamline the Migration of EDA Core Data from one Computer to Another, Saving you Time and Worry. TOPICS IN THIS SOLUTION IT SHOULD MATTER THIS? HURDLES OF PCB DESIGN ENVIRONMENT MIGRATION STREAMLINING THE MIGRATION OF ALTIUM DESIGNER TO ANOTHER COMPUTER BACKUP PROCEDURE FOR MIGRATION OF ALTIUM DESIGNER IT SHOULD MATTER Download PDF

BGA Fanout Routing Any printed circuit board starts in the schematic editor, and your board won’t become a reality until you finish circuit design in your PCB design software. Your schematic capture software is used to create a new printed circuit board, but you shouldn’t have to access it in an external program. Altium Designer is the world’s best PCB design software application for creating a powerful new circuit board and preparing it for manufacturing. TOPICS Download PDF

10 Symptoms of a Bad PDN At face value, DC power integrity seems to be a simple enough topic -- you just need to make sure that every component on your PCB has the power (current and voltage) it needs when it needs it. But that’s just on the surface. TOPICS IN THIS SOLUTION What is power integrity? What’s the problem? Symptoms WHAT IS POWER INTEGRITY? The new reality is a bit more complicated. When you start to work with fine-pitch device packages, the manufacturing Download PDF

PCB Editor View Modes PCB editor view modes allow designers to locate and correct errors in particular areas of the board. Altium Designer features multiple ways to view your design, allowing you to be most eﬃcient and to help avoid errors. These diﬀerent PCB editor view modes have allowed users to find and fix design problems, such as why a flex board does not fold, why components are on wrong layers, and why dead copper is not being shown anywhere on the board after Download PDF

Managing Your PCB Work-in-Progress Data The recent trends of shorter product lifecycles have resulted in increased customer expectations that crave quick delivery of feature-rich products. Electronic companies that haven’t progressed their design process and remain stuck with the conventional way of managing their ECAD data find it to be very costly and inefficient. With market pressures that leave no margin for error, electronic companies that don’t address the needs of today’s Download PDF

最新のPCBレイアウトの課題の解決方法 Download PDF

The Positive Impact of Supply Chain Visibility on Design to Cost To learn more about this topic please see the full solution - The Positive Impact of Supply Chain Visibility on Design to Cost - at Altium.com. Download PDF

Challenges with Rigid-Flex Design To learn more about this topic please see the full solution - Challenges with Rigid-Flex Design - at Altium.com. Download PDF