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The High-Speed PCB Stackup Design Challenge
As much as we would like to build every high speed PCB perfectly, with ideal SI/PI/EMI characteristics, it isn’t always possible due to many practical constraints. Sometimes a stackup can be “good enough,” even for a high-speed PCB. This always comes from the need to balance engineering constraints, functional requirements, and the need to ensure signal and power integrity in a high-speed design, and finally to ensure compliance with EMC requirements.
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Ensuring First Pass Manufacturing Success
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.
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How I Improved My Collaboration Efficiency with Altium 365
Involving the whole team that will bring a product to completion early on in the development cycle is vital to efficient development. Design reviews with all the relevant parties are critical at each step of the design process, starting with high-level component selection, then through the schematic capture and PCB layout stages.
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Countersink and Counterbore
Ergonomics and convenience are important issues when designing a printed circuit board and the device as a whole. A lot of Altium Designer tools are aimed at solving them. These include Countersink and Counterbore holes, which allow the use of various types of screws in the mounting holes of the board.
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Migrating Data From Other Version Control Systems
The development of electronic devices always involves the release of many different types of files. And these files are not static - they change as the project progresses. When filling a project with data, a user creates new files, modifies outdated files that have become irrelevant. Managing project data is a separate task, especially for large developments where several participants with different specializations are involved in the process.
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Properties Panel Tuning
High-speed PCBs often require tuning groups of tracks, both single and differential. Altium Designer includes powerful tools that allow you to solve such tasks quickly and with high quality. Study this document and achieve the desired result even faster.
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Three Methods for Building MCAD Ready Components
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.
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Reflectionless Matching vs. Conjugate Matching: An Apparent Contradiction
There is one confusion related to impedance matching that comes up again and again, and it appears to be a fundamental confusion between reflection and power delivery. This leads to an apparent contradiction that arises when we try to generalize power delivery to wave reflection, despite the fact that the two were not meant to be related.
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Properties Panel Routing
Routing is one of the most time-consuming stages of PCB design. Altium Designer has a large set of tools that allow you to do it as accurately and quickly as possible. This document will help you to learn how to manage your routing effectively and use it to its fullest extent.
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Quarter-Wave Transformer Design For Real and Reactive Loads
RF systems operate with specific impedance values across entire interconnects, including on PCBs. Not all RF components are packaged in integrated circuits with defined impedances, so impedance matching circuits and line sections are needed to ensure signal transmission between different sections of an interconnect. One of these impedance matching techniques is the quarter-wave impedance transformer, which can be implemented as a printed trace with specific impedance.
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How Altium Designer Empowers Designers to Master Complex PCB Projects
Discover the power of Altium Designer for tackling modern PCB design challenges! From advanced constraint management to dynamic routing, it's tailored for success. In our brand new article, you'll find the ultimate solution for managing the varying complexities of PCB design.
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How Data Integrations Improve Supply Chain Performance
Discover how data integrations can elevate your supply chain performance through real-time insights, enhanced transparency, and enriched component data.
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Why Altium Designer Can Help Design PCBs Intuitively and Intelligently
Altium Designer sets the PCB design standard with its cohesive environment, cutting-edge tools, and 3D-MID support. Learn more about how to eliminate errors, accelerate cycles, and foster innovation with our software.
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Multi-CAD Engineering: Top 6 Challenges
Explore the challenges and reasons behind Multi-CAD engineering and discover solutions for smooth cross-platform ECAD collaboration.
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Constraint Manager Whitepaper
Explore the precision of PCB design with Altium Designer's latest Constraint Manager! Hone your skills in component positioning, routing, and rule definition to enhance your design capabilities with Altium's state-of-the-art tools. Discover more about this cutting-edge feature in the manual today.
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Redefining the Assembly Process for Miniaturization and Ultra HDI Technology
Learn the whole story of revamping the SMTA Test Board, the groundbreaking tool for solder paste testing.
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Why the Principles Are Sound, but the Tactics Need a Re-Think
Explore common principles and rituals of Agile and how you can adapt them to hardware product development.
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USB to Serial-Over-RJ45 Module
Have you considered converting a USB interface to serial (UART), while delivering data over a custom Ethernet cable and RJ45 connectors? If so, we invite you to check out this article on building a USB to Serial-Over-RJ45 Module. Additionally, you'll find a link to our workspace to explore the entire project.
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Why the Principles Are Sound, but the Tactics Need a Re-Think
Explore common principles and rituals of Agile and how you can adapt them to hardware product development.
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Pi.MX8 Project - Board Layout Part 1
Our exploration of the Pi.MX8 open-source computer module project progresses. In this third chapter, our focus shifts to the PCB layout preparation of the board. Key topics include defining the layerstack and component break-out routing.
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PCB CoDesign Whitepaper
Design faster together with the innovative PCB CoDesign feature, exclusively available in Altium Designer. This cutting-edge functionality seamlessly integrates schematic and PCB design, facilitating concurrent work by multiple engineers on the same project. Learn more about this groundbreaking feature in our comprehensive manual.
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How to Test Suspect Electronic Components
Electronic components power nearly everything in our modern lives. However, as long as there are buyers for parts, counterfeiters will persist in their endeavors. Financial losses resulting from fake components are challenging to ascertain due to enforcement limitations and the difficulty in collecting data on the issue. In this article, we demonstrate how to test and verify components in batch orders.
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The Positive Impact of Supply Chain Visibility on Design to Cost
With increased electronics supply chain visibility, you can develop better products faster and align perfectly with budget constraints early on. Here’s why.
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What Most Agile "Gurus" Get Wrong About Hardware Development
Explore common myths about Agile hardware development and learn how to adapt Agile principles for hardware projects.
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Design Phase – Lid Assembly Electronics Part 2
We are going deeper into lid assembly electronics in our Open Source Laptop project. In this chapter we will tackle the PCB design of the webcam board and show you how to deal with some expected challenges, such as overall small form factor of the board or breaking out the microscopic webcam image sensor.
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Compare Commercial Altium 365 vs Altium 365 GovCloud
If you're trying to understand how commercial Altium 365 differs from Altium 365 GovCloud, you're in the right place. Click to grasp the unique features of each.
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