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Dive into the world of Altium's MCAD CoDesigner and its compatibility with SOLIDWORKS. Join us to explore a unified approach with a real-life project that will redefine your design process and find out more about how you can optimize your Electronic Lifecycle Management by bringing together all experts involved in product development.

Looking for a way to reduce time and increase the accuracy of the manual assembly of PCBs? Join us for a transformative session and learn how XVP Photonics achieved these goals with Assembly Assistant!

We are continuing our journey through the lid assembly design phase of our Open Source Laptop project. In this section, we will discuss the layout of the test adapter and provide a demonstration of the first test for the display panel, along with the initial steps involved in assembling the boards.

🚀 Join our experts to learn how you can develop products faster with fewer errors with the Altium 365 + Valispace Integration. This integration connects your live design and requirements workflow to implement design intent better and comply with industry standards.

Learn how the SiliconExpert integration in Altium 365 can optimize your workflows and elevate your design process. Hear from experts from SiliconExpert and discover insights into data-driven design decisions. View the recording and start designing with confidence.

In the exciting next phase of the open-source laptop project we're (finally) diving into design, and getting hands-on with the display panel. Discover how we're selecting the right panel, integrating it seamlessly, and creating a custom DisplayPort adapter to illuminate the screen. Plus, learn how our choices impact features like microphones, webcams, and touch sensors, and how Altium can help bring it all to life. It’s not too late to join as we continue on this innovative journey!

Concurrent PCB Design is essential to unlocking the full potential of engineering teams and delivering innovative products that meet the demands of the modern world. Learn more about the main capabilities and the numerous benefits of this upcoming feature in Altium Designer.

Discover the exciting world of combat robotics in our webinar! Explore Ribbot's journey from concept, to design, to prototype, to top-4 heavyweight contender in BattleBots World Championship VII. The Ribbot team will share their optimized processes which allowed them to accelerate their work, test new designs, and build a champion. Learn how they used Altium Designer and Altium MCAD CoDesigner to seamlessly integrate with SOLIDWORKS and work faster.

Whether you're designing a digital board with a ton of traces, or an RF board operating at very high frequencies, any electronic device with propagating signals will experience crosstalk. Learn more about some sure-fire ways you can reduce crosstalk in your high-speed designs.

🚀 Watch the recording for an exclusive Altium 365 GovCloud webinar with experts Mahesh Venugopala and Bruno Blasigh. Experience real-time collaboration while staying compliant.

The Baxandall volume control is an especially useful, flexible, and simple-to-implement circuit for numerous audio designs. In this article, we will demonstrate how to design this type of equipment.

Many modern electronics have multiple boards, and connecting those different boards and systems together are harnesses. Learn more about how Altium Designer can help you create harnesses for your own multi-board designs here.

We invite you to explore the causes of output voltage fluctuation. In this article we provide you insights on how to solve and prevent these issues.

In this article we will show you how to create step by step a digital laser range finder for your own. Everything is based on Raspberry Pi board.

Learn how easy it is to create multi-board projects. This practical project article covers the reasons for breaking larger boards into sub-assemblies and explores the various connection options available between sub-assembly boards.

In this article you can learn about light sensors while building an analog solar panel tracking system. This open-source project covers multi-channel design, window comparators, driving motors, and photosensors.

We are continuing our journey through the open-source laptop project. This article explains an initialization of CAD design process from the early concept and brainstorming phase.

In this blog we will show you the strategies to minimize the risk of damage to circuit boards during the initial power-up process.

Essential tips for high-speed PCB designs, and when you need to start being concerned about how and where you route your traces.

If you've ever wanted to mount components vertically, but without the expense of a flex section this article is for you. You can use an MID in your PCB.

Explore the basics of conformal coating with us. Conformal coating is a protective layer applied to electronic circuits to guard against environmental factors such as moisture and dust.

We have started a very exciting journey into the creation of an open source laptop project. This project will be an ongoing one, with our community able interactively participate. By utilizing Altium 365 users will be able to view, comment on, and download design files. This will be a great learning experience for new and experienced PCB designers.

Altium 365 has introduced a new feature that enhances visibility and improves project management for external users. This feature introduces the concept of "Guests" to identify and differentiate external users from workspace members.

We are pleased to announce that Altium 365 has achieved SOC 2 Type 2 certification, demonstrating our dedication to upholding the highest standards of security, availability, processing integrity, confidentiality, and privacy.

We are thrilled to introduce the Altium 365 Contractor Portal, an exciting new platform designed to connect you with trusted partners who are experts in electronic design and Altium 365. This portal offers you a secure and efficient space to connect with professionals specializing in Altium 365.

Electronics designers working in small design houses or in large enterprises often encounter a common set of challenges when interfacing with mechanical designers. Continue reading to learn how you can best interface with your mechanical designer to get your projects out the door fast!

HDI PCBs take a particular approach to routing interconnects through multiple layers to ensure reliability during fabrication, assembly, and operation. The critical structure that enables this is microvias, which are prone to failure if not designed properly. In this e-book, readers will receive an initial look at the reasons microvia reliability has come into the spotlight and why HDI PCB designers put reliability first when routing through microvias.

Dive into the world of Altium's MCAD CoDesigner and its compatibility with SOLIDWORKS. Join us to explore a unified approach with a real-life project that will redefine your design process and find out more about how you can optimize your Electronic Lifecycle Management by bringing together all experts involved in product development.

Looking for a way to reduce time and increase the accuracy of the manual assembly of PCBs? Join us for a transformative session and learn how XVP Photonics achieved these goals with Assembly Assistant!

🚀 Join our experts to learn how you can develop products faster with fewer errors with the Altium 365 + Valispace Integration. This integration connects your live design and requirements workflow to implement design intent better and comply with industry standards.

Learn how the SiliconExpert integration in Altium 365 can optimize your workflows and elevate your design process. Hear from experts from SiliconExpert and discover insights into data-driven design decisions. View the recording and start designing with confidence.

Discover the exciting world of combat robotics in our webinar! Explore Ribbot's journey from concept, to design, to prototype, to top-4 heavyweight contender in BattleBots World Championship VII. The Ribbot team will share their optimized processes which allowed them to accelerate their work, test new designs, and build a champion. Learn how they used Altium Designer and Altium MCAD CoDesigner to seamlessly integrate with SOLIDWORKS and work faster.

🚀 Watch the recording for an exclusive Altium 365 GovCloud webinar with experts Mahesh Venugopala and Bruno Blasigh. Experience real-time collaboration while staying compliant.

Learn how the SiliconExpert integration in Altium 365 can optimize your workflows and elevate your design process. Hear from experts from SiliconExpert and discover insights into data-driven design decisions. Also don't miss the chance to see the integration in action and explore improved risk analysis and alternative component discovery features. View the recording and start designing with confidence.

An exclusive Expert Panel Discussion on Altium 365 GovCloud featuring industry experts Mahesh Venugopala and Bruno Blasigh. Gain valuable insights on cloud security, compliance, and more.

Join our insightful webinar on Altium 365 Version Control System (VCS) designed for solo users, where Ari Mahpour will guide you through creating and managing projects on the cloud-based platform.

Get ready to speed up your design process with new Altium Designer collaboration capabilities. Designing a PCB is a team effort. Engineers must work with customers, manufacturers, and other stakeholders to get the best results. You need help to bring your design to life, even if you're a one-person team.

It is essential to ask questions and review the design approaches used with your team. Design reviews are essential in the design process, but they can be inconvenient for team members and lack traceability or history. To create the best designs, you need review methods that are as cutting edge as the boards you're making.

Version control systems (VCS) have been around for a long time in the software world but can be surprisingly new to some folks in the electronics design industry. Version control tools are great for tracking and maintaining entire codebases without the old-school copying, pasting, zipping, and emailing steps many PCB designers use.

When it's time to release your project to your manufacturer, it's essential to ensure that all the necessary design aspects like assembly, BOM, and documentation are accurately and completely conveyed. Consistency is key to ensuring a successful release. Without clear release documentation, the designer faces increased risks of costly manufacturing response, time-consuming rework, or unintentional defects that can make it into the final product.

One of the most difficult and frustrating things to arise when traveling to a foreign country is the language barrier. Communicating a simple greeting can sometimes seem like a big hassle. The same thing is true for different CAD tools. When your tools aren’t speaking the same language, you’re going to run into problems. Bridge this gap by building out your component libraries with everything it takes to truly define a component, including 3D models that seamlessly propagate into the PCB editor and beyond.

Working with local libraries seems like a simple solution, but we often don’t take into account the added time spent maintaining libraries and sharing them between team members. There is no good way to avoid duplicate efforts with component creation and no standardization to ensure consistent naming. Worst of all, there is no way to identify the latest component revision, and library files can be easily corrupted or misplaced. This webinar showcases the advantages of component storage in Аltium 365 to resolve the issues of local libraries and component management.

This track is for the designer who is new to high-speed layout and routing practices and wants to understand how they relate to signal integrity, and how to get started designing for high-speed digital applications.