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Altium Designer 16 Is Now Available
Altium Designer 16 is now available to all Altium Subscription customers. Read about all the new productivity and automation-focused features we’ve included in this new release!
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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 board designs....
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How to Increase Design Yield & Quality with Teardrops
During the fabrication & manufacturing process, issues commonly arise due to misaligned holes or undesirable drill breakouts. Learn how including teardrops in your designs can help you to improve...
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How to Use a Modular Approach to Simplify Your PCB Design Process
PCB design can end up taking more time if it is not planned out properly when moving from conceptual spec to actual design. There are a lot of factors to consider at once. For example, where to place...
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Implementing Complex Pad Shapes into Your PCB Designs
In some instances, geometrically irregular or complex pad shapes may be required in your designs, and getting them just right can drain a significant amount of time and manual effort. Learn how to save...
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Fitbit Takes Fitness from Clunky to Cool with Advances in Printed Circuit...
When Fitbit was first developed neither of its creators had PCB design or manufacturing experience, and they immediately ran into major problems. They ultimately wanted a product that comes in a small...
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How Proper PCB Layout Can Help You Avoid Adding Heat Sinks to Your Design
Everyone knows that excessive heat can kill components or drive them out of spec, but sometimes it isn’t obvious when heat will be a problem. Heat mitigation issues may appear over time, like a solder...
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How to Move 3D Interference Checking to Electronic Design for a More...
During a typical design process it can take multiple iterations before your PCB fits its enclosure, leading to delayed schedules and missed deadlines. How can you ensure your PCB fits right the first...
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The Pros and Cons of Having Your Manufacturer Source the Components in Your...
While having your manufacturer source components for you might seem like the fastest and cheapest option, some difficulties can arise. After a bad experience with counterfeit components, we began...
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Announcements: Update 11 for Altium Designer 10
The Altium Development team are pleased to announce a new update for Altium Designer 10 which focuses on addressing issues further raised in BugCrunch, as well as updates for the PADS and Allegro...
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Announcements: Altium Designer 13.1
The Altium Development team is pleased to provide you with the first update since the release of Altium Designer 2013. With this update we have paid particular attention to stability and performance...
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Safeguard designs with source control
In this Blog entry I'll show you how to get started with version control by installing the popular and free Subversion version control engine, and setting up Altium Designer to work with it.
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How to Avoid Common Signal Integrity Issues in Your Designs
Are you doing everything you can to resolve signal integrity issues in your high-speed designs? Read on to find out how to avoid the most common signal integrity issues with board stackup and routing...
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Announcements: Update 16 for Altium Designer 10
The Altium Development team are pleased to announce the 16th update for Altium Designer 10 which includes various enhancements requested through BugCrunch and the AltiumLive forums, including...
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Announcements: Update 12 for Altium Designer 10
The Altium Development team are pleased to announce the 12th update for Altium Designer 10 which includes a new Schematic feature: Specific No ERC Directives. The No ERC Directives can now suppress...
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Supporting custom pad shapes
There has been a lot of support behind the introduction of custom pad shapes into PCB (indeed it was the first report ‘crunched’ in our new BugCrunch system) so I thought it might be of some interest...
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A cloudy focus
There’s been some discussion on our new Forum about our plans for “all this cloudy stuff”. Some of you have asked why we have this focus. Some have questioned why we’re bothering when we can’t “even...
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Creative use of flexible tools
A question came up on the forums today asking how to make a design rule in Altium Designer to check for silkscreen clearance to the board outline. Knowing that there is no direct method to achieve...
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Software development streams - the natural evolution of our business
The software engineering industry is a bit of an ugly duckling when it comes to release cycles. For reasons of traceability, validation, verification, and marketing, most software packages are built to...
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How the Evolution of PCB Design Has Allowed SpaceX's Visions to Take Flight
Today, the new frontiers of spaceflight are explored by SpaceX. SpaceX is an ambitious venture to create a new reusable launch system and, ultimately, interplanetary travel. The most visible of these...
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