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Model-Based Systems Engineering in the Era of Digital Twins: A Paradigm Shift in PCB and Electronics Design
Explore how Model-Based Systems Engineering (MBSE) integrates with digital twins to enhance design accuracy, collaboration, and lifecycle management in modern engineering projects. This approach bridges the gap between physical systems and digital models, enabling real-time simulation and optimization.
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Wire Bonding in Altium Designer
The Wire Bonding in Altium Designer article highlights how Altium Designer 25’s wire bonding feature streamlines complex designs for advanced assemblies like 3D stacked dies and RF modules. This tool enhances efficiency and precision, catering to modern electronic design needs.
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Altium Designer 25: Pioneering Collaboration, Product Development, and Advanced Simulation
Altium Designer 25 introduces groundbreaking features for seamless collaboration and precision in PCB design, from PCB CoDesign to advanced simulation and MCAD tools. Discover how AD25 is transforming electronic product development.
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From Prototype to Production: Fast-Track Your PCBA Manufacturing Process
Watch this webinar tailored for PCB designers, engineers, and manufacturers! Dive deep into how our latest application, Altimade, integrates with MacroFab to transform your prototyping and production processes, ensuring faster turnaround and enhanced product quality.
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Wire Bonding: Modern Applications, Technology Trends and Cost Considerations
Explore the future of wire bonding, from new applications to cost-saving trends, in this article by Samer Aldhaher. Stay updated on key innovations in this essential connection technology.
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Maximizing Efficiency: A Deep Dive into Altium 365 Jira Integration Features
Discover how Altium 365’s Jira integration can streamline collaboration and keep projects running smoothly with real-time design updates and task tracking. Perfect for teams seeking efficiency!
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Ensuring Electronic Component Traceability From Idea to Innovation
Watch this webinar and learn how online BOM management systems, like Altium 365 BOM Portal, can transform your approach to transparency, collaboration, and regulatory compliance in the electronics sector.
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Optimize PCB Design with Integrated BOM and CAD Systems
Discover how integrating BOM management and CAD systems can streamline your PCB design process in this insightful article. Learn how combining these tools enables smoother collaboration, reduces errors, and improves design efficiency, helping you optimize your workflows from concept to manufacturing.
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Expert Tips for Safely Powering Up Your New PCB for the First Time
In this blog we will show you the strategies to minimize the risk of damage to circuit boards during the initial power-up process.
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High-Speed PCB Design Tips
Essential tips for high-speed PCB designs, and when you need to start being concerned about how and where you route your traces.
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MIDs Make a Comeback as Vertical SMD Modules for Your PCB
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.
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Everything You Need to Know about Conformal Coating
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.
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Introduction to Open Source Laptop Project
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.
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Mechanical and Electrical Design Come Together With Altium’s MCAD CoDesigner
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!
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Ebook: Routing High-Density Interconnects with Reliable Microvias
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.
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IPC-2221 Calculator for PCB Trace Current and Heating
Aside from impedance and annular ring calculations, one of the other major formulas specified in the IPC 2221 standard relates temperature rise, trace width, and trace current. THere is also the IPC-2152 standard, both include this guidance on designing for thermal reliability, but which standard should we use?
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Stripline Impedance Calculator
Striplines provide some advantages over microstrips as they take advantage of natural shielding and coupling from nearby ground plane layers. Although they tend to experience higher losses due to total confinement in the dielectric, they can be thinner due to the high dielectric constant used in internal layers of a PCB. Use our free impedence calculator to help you determine the correct width needed to hit a target impedance.
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Which Types of Opto-Isolators Are Right For Your Signal?
An optoisolator is a cool electronic device that can be used to pass information between a diode without passing an electrical current. There are many great applications for these, but do you know which one is right for you?
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Properties panel document options in SCH editors
The Properties panel provides access to the properties of documents and objects. The contents of the panel change depending on the active document or the selected object. This blog will quickly go over some of need to know options around the properties panel in the schematic document.
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The High-Speed PCB Stackup Design Challenge
Even with all the good guidelines out there for high speed design, there are particular aspects of stackup construction and their relation to building boards that get overlooked. This blog is goes beyond just the typical SI/PI guidelines and looks at these problems from more of an engineering perspective.
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Everything You Need to Know About Stitching Vias
Stitching vias are something you often see spread around the surface layer of a PCB, but what are they? and should you be using them? In this guide, we'll go over some of the standard uses of stitching vias and when they should be used in a PCB.
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PCB Stackup Basics
In comparison to the build-up of a PCB, the stackup is more concerned with the electrical type of each layer, that is are we working with signals, power, or ground. Continue reading to learn how you can optimize your layer stack.
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Multi-board and Harness Design Capability in Altium Designer 23
Altium’s VP of marketing Lawrence Romine discusses the multi-board and harness design capabilities coming in Altium Designer 23.
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Controlled ESR Capacitors: Should You Use Them for Power Integrity?
Controlled ESR capacitors are important for power integrity in your design as they can help smooth out the PDN impedance spectrum in your high speed PCB.
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From Prototype to Production: Fast-Track Your PCBA Manufacturing Process
Watch this webinar tailored for PCB designers, engineers, and manufacturers! Dive deep into how our latest application, Altimade, integrates with MacroFab to transform your prototyping and production processes, ensuring faster turnaround and enhanced product quality.
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Ensuring Electronic Component Traceability From Idea to Innovation
Watch this webinar and learn how online BOM management systems, like Altium 365 BOM Portal, can transform your approach to transparency, collaboration, and regulatory compliance in the electronics sector.
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Design with Confidence: Altium 365 Meets SiliconExpert
Watch this webinar to learn how the SiliconExpert Integration in Altium 365 can optimize your workflows and elevate your design process.
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Electronic Design Dream Team: Breaking Down Silos From Concept to Production
Want to keep your entire team on the same page? Watch this webinar to discover how Altium 365’s suite of applications revolutionizes electronics design from conception to production.
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Synchronize to Optimize: Enhancing Efficiency with Jira Integration for Altium 365
Tired of juggling multiple tools for project management? Learn how the Jira Integration for Altium 365 can optimize your workflows.
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Introducing the New Altium 365 Requirements & Systems Portal
Watch our webinar to learn more about the new application joining the Altium 365 suite. The new Requirements & Systems Portal will help align engineering teams to get to market quicker.
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How to Protect Your IP While Accelerating Electronic Product Development
Watch our webinar to learn how our centralized electronics design data platform can quickly integrate with your IT access, tracking, and compliance tools, while also making it easier to work in teams.
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Bridge the Gap Between Engineering and Procurement: Altium 365 BOM Portal
Learn how to make informed decisions and mitigate supply chain risks with Altium 365 BOM Portal. Improve your time to market and proactively manage supply chain risks.
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Simplify Your Workflows: Altium 365 Cloud PLM Integration with Duro®
Struggling with manual data errors in your electronics projects? Watch the webinar to learn how Altium 365 cloud PLM integration with Duro® minimizes errors and rework, saving you time and money.
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Iterate Faster in Complex Engineering Projects
Learn how Valispace is transforming the world of requirements and systems engineering, enabling teams to do super fast design iterations and develop quality products while ensuring they comply with standards and regulations.
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Design with Confidence: Altium 365 Meets SiliconExpert
Watch the webinar to learn how the SiliconExpert Integration in Altium 365 can optimize your workflows and elevate your design process. Start making data-driven design decisions today!
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Don’t Let Multiple ECAD File Formats Slow Your Time-to-Market! Altium 365 Multi-CAD Support
Is juggling multiple ECAD file formats slowing down your team? If so, watch this webinar and learn how to remove ECAD data silos to enhance design collaboration, efficiently manage all your BOMs, and reduce supply chain risks with Altium 365 Multi-CAD File Support.
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Streamline Your Product Development - Altium 365 Cloud PLM Integration with Arena®
Watch the webinar to discover how Altium 365 Cloud PLM Integration with Arena® can optimize your electronics product development processes. Benefit from automated data flow, eliminating manual input and minimizing errors that lead to costly rework.
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Data Security and Access Controls for Electronics Development Teams Using Altium 365 GovCloud on AWS GovCloud Infrastructure
Watch the webinar that brings together the expertise of Altium 365 and AWS to introduce the specialized Altium 365 GovCloud within the robust AWS GovCloud infrastructure. This session is designed for IT and security professionals seeking advanced data protection and access control solutions for their electronics development teams.
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Can Agile Development Work for Hardware? 3 Critical Elements for Success
Watch the webinar to explore the benefits of agile methodologies and how they can be translated into the physical world of hardware development! Learn how Altium 365 can support the adoption of this approach.
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How to Design PCBs and Meet US Government Requirements with Altium 365 GovCloud
Watch our webinar and discover how Altium 365 GovCloud can assist you in PCB design while ensuring compliance with US government regulations.
