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Demonstration Altium DISCOVER - Embedded World North America 2025

Check out our live demo from Embedded World North America 2025 showcasing Altium 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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Demonstration Altium AGILE Enterprise - Embedded World North America 2025

Experience how Altium Agile Enterprise turns complex engineering collaboration into a streamlined, unified workflow. In this live demonstration from Embedded World North America 2025, you’ll see how multi-disciplinary teams can simplify processes, minimize rework, and maintain clear alignment from requirements through release. All within a single, powerful platform.

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Streamlining Component Selection for Long Product Lifecycles

Electronic parts may now cycle from launch to end-of-life in just a few years, but many systems are expected to serve for 10–20+ years. Here’s how to build a component selection process that aligns engineering, procurement and design for longevity and stability.

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Highlights from the Altium Booth at Embedded World North America 2025

Check out our short recap of Altium’s participation at Embedded World North America 2025 in Anaheim. In the coming weeks, we’ll be sharing a few exciting presentations and demos featuring our new products: Altium Develop, Altium Agile, and Altium Discover.

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Using ECAD Software to Track Part Availability During PCB Design

As component lead-times extend and obsolescence becomes a persistent threat, PCB projects demand more than schematic capture and layout tools alone. This article details how ECAD software with embedded supply-chain intelligence can: unify engineering and procurement teams; provide visibility into stock levels, lead times and alternates; and enable proactive risk mitigation within the design loop.

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USB-PD Business Card: Examination & Power Test

Join us as we explore a PCB business card received at the PCB West Conference. We'll take a closer look under the microscope to examine its intricate components, test its power delivery capabilities, and uncover the engineering marvel behind this tiny device.

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PCB Design Data Management Tips for Multi-Board Projects

In complex electronic systems, managing data from multiple printed circuit boards can quickly become a logistical challenge. This article outlines a structured workflow for handling both board-level and assembly-level design outputs, ensuring clarity and consistency across fabrication, assembly and product-level documentation.

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Altium Develop: Returning to Our Roots

Lawrence Romine unveils Altium’s groundbreaking approach to product development with Altium Develop. This innovative solution realigns the company with its core mission - empowering individual engineers and small teams. Explore the strategic vision behind creating a product that seamlessly balances accessibility, robust functionality, and intuitive design.

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Altium Training - Navigating Schematics: Schematic Preference Settings for Navigation

Unlock smarter design navigation in Altium! Learn how to customize navigation preferences to boost your design insight and visualize connectivity like never before. In this video, we’ll explore Design Insight settings, interactive connectivity hover features, and quick thumbnail navigation between schematic sheets. All designed to make your workflow faster, clearer, and more intuitive.

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What Is BOM Management? A Practical Guide to Avoiding Costly Part Mismatches

From design to production, effective Bill of Materials (BOM) management is critical to ensuring smooth collaboration between engineering, procurement, and manufacturing teams. In this practical guide, we break down proven strategies for structuring, maintaining, and synchronizing your BOM to prevent costly mistakes and accelerate time-to-market.

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Essential DFM Tips for Aerospace Projects

Design for Manufacturing (DFM) is a crucial aspect of aerospace projects. This process ensures high-quality designs that meet the unique challenges of the aerospace industry, such as extreme conditions and stringent reliability standards. Learn more about essential DFM tips in our brand-new article.

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Altium 365 now has its own website!

Discover everything you need to know about Altium 365 and experience our suite of applications for secure, seamless, and streamlined collaboration. Visit now to explore how to streamline your electronic product development.
 

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Altium Designer: Leading the Charge in PCB Design Innovation

In the dynamic field of electronics design, Altium Designer stands out as a pioneer, continuously advancing the boundaries of PCB (Printed Circuit Board) design. Discover the latest innovations in 3D-MID design, high-speed design, and interactive routing in this new article by David Marrakchi.

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What Is Solder Mask Expansion and Which Value Should You Use?

Check out our new article explaining how to ensure sufficient pad area for soldering, manage misregistration tolerance, and maintain proper solder dams between components. It also highlights the role of collaboration with fabrication houses and the use of CAD tools in defining land patterns for advanced electronics designs.

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Pi.MX8 Project - Board Layout Part 3

We continue our exploration of the Pi.MX8 open-source computer module project. In this new installment, we focus on routing planning and then cover all the layers' routing with all the details you need to know if you want to prepare a similar project.

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Mastering Blind and Buried Vias

Check our compilation of essential resources you'll need to use blind and buried vias successfully in an HDI PCB. In our brand new article, we present the main and most valuable information about this technology, which may not be new but is still highly useful in High-Density Interconnect projects.

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Make Sure to Clean Your No-Clean Flux

No-clean flux has become popular due to its convenience. Learn more about why this solution is used, why cleaning might still be necessary, and how to remove no-clean flux residues. We will try to dispel all these doubts in this brand new article.

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How to Design a Thermal Prototype PCB

Thermal problems in PCBs often go unnoticed until prototyping, which can be costly. Design teams can't afford endless iterations, but they can conduct lower-cost thermal prototypes. Learn more about this approach in our new article.

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DC-Aware Return Current in Mixed Signal PCBs

In this article, we will examine specific cases involving these types of components, where a very low-frequency signal or a DC signal needs to be measured, and the return path must be tracked to ensure the current loop is tight.

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PCB Layout Replication: The Perfect Tool for Test Jigs

Replicate your circuits across multiple blocks with just a few clicks using a flawless preview pane, ensuring consistent, perfect results without the need for trial and error. Check out our new article on the PCB Layout Replication feature.

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Edge Plating in RF Design

PCB Edge Plating provides additional noise suppression and improves EMC. In this video we provide you some practical tips for creating metalized PCB edges in Altium Designer.

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Custom Paste Mask and Solder Mask

Altium Designer allows you to freely customize paste and solder mask shapes, which allows you to adapt your design for non-standard component footprints.

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Colpitts Oscillator

Learn how to effectively fix errors in circuit simulation and other problem-solving techniques using a Colpitts Oscillator design as an example. 

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Custom Thermal Reliefs for Pads

Altium Designer allows you to add, remove, and edit thermal relief spikes anywhere on a pad, regardless of its shape. Using these can improve soldering and prevent manufacturing problems like tombstoning.

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Notch Filter

Learn how to run an AC sweep analysis, execute a Monte Carlo simulation, and interpret the results using a notch filter as an example. 

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Custom Pad Shapes

Modern components often contain pads with complex shapes. Altium Designer allows you to create custom pad shapes quickly and easily, and manage them like you would a standard pad.

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Low-Pass Filter

Learn how to modify an op amp low-pass filter circuit for simulation. 

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Design Reuse

If you need to shorten your time-to-market, reduce costs, and minimize errors in the design process. Then you need to make sure that you’re designing smarter, with design reuse blocks. Check out this demo to see how it works.

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Flyback Converter

Learn how to use transient analysis on an example flyback converter and handle basic errors during the simulation preparation. 

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Back Drilling in Altium Designer

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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Distributed - Element Circuits in RF Design

The capacitance and inductance of Distributed-Element circuits are determined by the shape and location of different copper elements in the PCB layout, instead of being concentrated in one point in space. Learn how to work with these circuits in Altium Designer.

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Collaborative Editing

Save time and minimize reworks while teaming up on a PCB design from anywhere in the world. Watch the video for a sneak preview of the new collaborative editing functionality.

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Exporting Results

After completing your simulation in Power Analyzer by Keysight, you will likely need to export some of the results for further analysis. In this video, we will show you how to prepare a report once the simulation is done.

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Plane Connect - Direct in RF Design

Designing high-frequency circuit boards requires a sharp eye toward maintaining signal integrity. Some signal connections are more prone to interruption than others. In this video, you can learn how Altium Designer's Polygon Connect Design Rule and the Thermal Relief option can help in the PCB design process.

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Understanding and Correcting Violations

When you finish the Power Analyzer by Keysight simulation process, you may find some design problems. In this video, we will learn how to understand and correct any violations that may arise on your board.

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Routing Any Angle or Arc in RF Design

High-frequency signals require special consideration when routing. Altium Designer allows you to add RF nets to a net class, then apply design rules. Learn how, as well as some other handy high-frequency routing tips, in this video.

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Integrating Requirements June 2025 Webinar
On-Demand Webinar May 28, 2025
Integrating Requirements into Your PCB Design Workflow
Join our webinar where you will learn about integrated requirements tools who can help you eliminate late-stage design changes, AI support through system requirements and integration of design requirements directly in PCB Design. Don't miss it, register now!
Streamlining Team Collaboration
On-Demand Webinar Apr 17, 2025
Streamlining Team Collaboration in Industrial PCB Projects
Join us for our upcoming webinar to discover how Altium Designer and Altium 365 can transform your team’s collaboration and take your PCB design projects to the next level. Attend for a chance to win free access to the Altium 365 Training Bundle.
PCB CoDesign Webinar
On-Demand Webinar Jan 24, 2024
Discover How Altium Designer 24 Revolutionizes Team Dynamics in PCB Design
Expand your collaboration skills and stay ahead of the curve with PCB CoDesign. Design teams often grapple with prolonged design cycles and coordination issues, leading to delays and inefficiencies. In the current landscape, design processes are hindered by fragmented collaboration, resulting in increased layout times and difficulties in synchronizing design updates.