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Signal Analyzer by Keysight Promo Video

Design faster, collaborate smarter, and catch signal integrity issues early with Altium Agile Teams and the Signal Integrity Analyzer by Keysight — both integrated directly into Altium Designer Agile. Check out our new promo video to learn more.

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NFC Reader Testing: Flashing and Validating the Project

Join Zach Peterson as we build and test an NFC reader board from start to finish. You’ll see how a custom NFC reader goes from manufacturing to working hardware, with step-by-step guidance on firmware flashing, power checks, and RFID tag detection.

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Power Analyzer by Keysight Promo Video

Unlock faster, more reliable PCB design with Altium Designer Agile Teams and Power Analyzer by Keysight. Integrated directly inside Altium Designer, this powerful combination enables fast, secure, and adaptive collaboration helping engineering teams move quickly, stay aligned, and scale confidently. Watch this short video to see how this software improves your PCB design process.

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Avoid These Top 3 Power Distribution Failures in PCB Design

Power distribution issues can silently undermine your PCB’s reliability. This article uncovers the top three failure modes and shows how Power Analyzer by Keysight helps you catch them early in the design phase and how Altium Agile Teams turns those checks into structured team action.

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Do 90-Degree Bends Destroy Signal Integrity? The Surprising Answer

Discover why the long-held belief about 90-degree PCB traces may be more myth than reality. This video explains key signal integrity principles and uncovers insights that can help you make more informed design decisions.

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Taking Control Without Adding Complexity – Presentation Embedded World North America 2025

See how Altium makes project oversight faster and smarter with automated workflows, real-time tracking, and connected design data without adding work for engineers. Watch our Embedded World North America 2025 presentation to learn more.

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Demonstration Altium DISCOVER - Embedded World North America 2025

Check out our live demo from Embedded World North America 2025 showcasing Octopart Discover. In this video, you’ll see how the platform helps reduce sourcing risk, shorten design cycles, and keep projects moving forward with confidence.

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Altium Agile for Modern Electronics Development - Presentation Embedded World North America 2025

Watch our presentation from Embedded World North America 2025 to learn how Altium Agile brings structure, visibility, and velocity to modern hardware development. Discover how multidisciplinary teams can eliminate workflow chaos, track progress in real time, and accelerate delivery without compromising quality.

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Demonstration Altium DEVELOP - Embedded World North America 2025

See how Altium Develop empowers engineering teams with fast, cloud-connected PCB design built for modern collaboration. This live demo from Embedded World North America 2025 showcases real-time co-creation, smooth MCAD-ECAD integration, and a design environment that lets you stay focused on what matters building great products.

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From Collaboration to Co Creation – Presentation Embedded World North America 2025

In this Embedded World North America 2025 presentation, learn how Altium enables electrical, mechanical, firmware, sourcing, and manufacturing teams to collaborate seamlessly in real time through shared data, shared context, and shared visibility. Experience how unified workflows reduce rework, speed up decision-making, and empower teams to deliver exceptional products faster.

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PCB Design: Defining Electrical Clearances in High Voltage PCBs

Unlock the essential principles behind defining electrical clearances for high-voltage PCB designs in our brand-new tutorial. Learn how to apply accurate, layer-specific clearance rules using IPC-2221 standards and harness the full power of Altium’s query system.

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Wearable Electronics: Innovations, Challenges & Future Trends

This whitepaper examines how next-generation wearable electronics are evolving through advancements in flexible and rigid-flex design, smart materials, AI, energy innovations, and connectivity. Discover what’s required to transform early prototypes into scalable, reliable products across healthcare, sports, defense, fashion, and enterprise applications.

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Blog • Apr 22, 2020
Any Angle Routing: When Should You Use It?

EDA tools have come a long way since the advent of personal computing. Now advanced routing features like auto-routers, interactive routing, length tuning, and pin-swapping are helping designers stay productive, especially as device and trace densities increase. Read full article in our blog:

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Blog • Mar 20, 2020
A Message from Altium on COVID-19

We understand that many of you, like ourselves, have transitioned to working remotely. This process comes with its challenges and we would like to offer all and any help we can to minimize disruptions for your teams and business.

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Blog • Mar 2, 2020
About Altium Designer Home Page

With the new Altium Designer Home page, we are aiming to help users stay up to date with the latest features and productivity tricks available in Altium Designer. Learn more about the Home page in this documentation article.

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Blog • Feb 25, 2020
Getting Connected: Altium’s User Community Forums

The Altium design environment is a complex and sophisticated set of software tools. Not surprisingly, becoming proficient with these tools will take some time, and you’ll need to practice every step of the design process from beginning to end. So what happens if you get stuck along the way?

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How to Remove Unused Pad Shapes

Unused pad shapes can cause distortion among other problems so it is best to exclude them from your designs. This video shows how to remove unused pad shapes.

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Stackup Presets and Templates

In this video, we will learn how to apply predefined layer stacks to the board, as well as how to save the layer stack file as a template.

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Creating a PCB Footprint Assembly Drawing

If you need to create an assembly drawing of your PCB Footprint for your outjob files we can show you how in Altium Designer. We’ll walk through all the different options for your assembly drawing in your Draftsman document, how to create your assembly drawing and assign it designators.

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Using the ActiveBOM

Using the ActiveBOM: The Bill of Materials (BOM) contains a list of all the components with their designators, part numbers, values, and other parameters. An ActiveBOM manages the mapping from the design component (part) to the part that is purchased. This video describes how to use the ActiveBOM document to create an up-to-date list of components needed for your project.

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Using Back Drills in your Stackup

In this video, we will learn about Back Drilling technology, how to set up back drilling using the layer stack manager, and how to set up the Stub Length sizes for back drilling by specifying applicable nets using the Design Rules Editor.

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How to Customize The Properties Panel

How to Customize The Properties Panel: This video will go over how to customize the look and feel of the properties panel in Altium Designer. By being able to personalize your workspace you can greatly improve your efficiency

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How to Create and Use Impedance Profiles

Using the Altium Designer Layer Stack Manager, we will show how to create impedance profiles for transmission lines and how to apply them to the circuit board using the PCB Rules and Constraints Editor.

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Creating a PCB Footprint Courtyard

The courtyard is an essential piece when you want to create a PCB Footprint in Altium Designer. We’ll talk about what a courtyard is, how to create a courtyard, and how to format a courtyard correctly for your PCB footprint.

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How to Edit Existing Tracks in Altium Designer

This new design rule flags a violation when the creepage distance across non-conductive surface and edge regions of the board, between the targeted signals, is equal to or less than the specified Creepage distance.

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Creating a PCB Footprint Silkscreen Overlay

When creating a PCB footprint in Altium Designer creating a silkscreen overlay is an important requirement. We’ll go over the standards for creating a silkscreen overlay for a footprint and the steps to creating one, such as constructing lines and measuring distance of objects and primitives.

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Tuning
What's New in 22.7 •
更改调节对象层属性功能

本次发布后，即可更加轻松地进行高速PCB设计。现在，当您需要将调节元件快速移动到其他层时，仅需单击一次即可从Properties面板中执行此操作。

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Tuning
What's New in 22.7 •
Ability to Change Tuning Object Layer Properties

Design of high-speed PCBs becomes easier with this latest release. Now, when you need to quickly move tuning elements to a different layer, you can do so from the Properties panel with a single click.

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Simulation models
What's New in 22.7 •
自动分配不含模型的元件仿真模型

最新版Altium Designer将确保您能够更加轻松地进行原理图仿真。系统智能自动识别 SPICE 模型并将其分配给可用来源的元件。

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Simulation models
What's New in 22.7 •
Auto-assign Simulation Models for Components without Models

This latest version of Altium Designer makes schematic simulation even easier. System intelligence automatically recognizes SPICE models and assigns them to components from available sources.

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Paste
What's New in 22.7 •
变量助焊层输出控件

输出数据需要尽量准确。对于多变量设计，您现在可以确保将助焊层仅显示在真正需要的位置。

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Paste
What's New in 22.7 •
Control of Paste Mask Output for Variants

Output data needs to be as accurate as possible. For multi-variant designs you can now ensure that the paste mask is only displayed where it is really needed.

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