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 Preventing Obsolescence Before It Hits
On-Demand Webinar • Jun 12, 2025
Proactive Lifecycle Management: Preventing Obsolescence Before It Hits
Take the first step toward eliminating avoidable delays and costly redesigns. Don't miss it and register now!
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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!
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A365 Webinar
On-Demand Webinar • Apr 23, 2025
Collaborative Design Review: Ensuring Quality from Schematics to Supply Chain
Join our live webinar to learn how Altium 365 accelerates collaboration, standardizes workflows, and ensures design integrity to mitigate risks and accelerate time to market.
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Webinar: From Prototype to Production: Optimizing BOM Costs Without Compromising Quality with Part Analytics
On-Demand Webinar • Apr 22, 2025
From Prototype to Production: Optimizing BOM Costs Without Compromising Quality with Part Analytics
Learn how to reduce production BOM costs without redesign, explore techniques to consolidate part demand for volume savings, and discover case examples from supply chain teams that increased sourcing process efficiency by up to 97%.
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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.
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Component management
On-Demand Webinar • Apr 10, 2025
Ensure Best Designs with Professional Library Management
In this webinar, you'll discover how Altium Designer facilitates robust component management, including adding part choices to mitigate supply chain risks and leveraging Altium 365 managed components.
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On-Demand Webinar • Apr 9, 2025
Component Selection in Altium Designer: Making Data-Driven Decisions with Data Integrations
Improve component selection with real-time data insights in Altium 365! Join our live webinar to optimize your PCB development. Sign up now!
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Blog • Jan 20, 2026
How Agile BOM Management Helps You Lock in Pricing Before Market Shifts

When engineering and procurement work from different BOM versions, delays and cost surprises follow. Learn how agile BOM management brings teams onto one connected BOM so they can respond fast, manage risk, and lock pricing early.

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How-To's • Jan 19, 2026
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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Blog • Jan 15, 2026
Flexible Circuits: Enhancing Performance with Shielding, Heat Dissipation, and Stiffeners

A flex circuit can look perfect on paper and still fail in the real world due to EMI, hot spots, or mechanical strain. This article breaks down how shielding, thermal planning, and stiffeners help deliver designs that stay reliable over time.

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How-To's • Jan 14, 2026
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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Blog • Jan 13, 2026
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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How-To's • Jan 12, 2026
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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Blog • Dec 11, 2025
From BOM to Requirements and Back: Building Sourcing Constraints Into Specs

When engineering and procurement remain disconnected, supply-chain problems will sneak up on you. This guide argues convincingly: embed sourcing constraints into your requirements from day one, and avoid costly rework down the line.

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New in Altium Designer 20 • Dec 10, 2025
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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Blog • Dec 9, 2025
Understanding Power Integrity in PCB Design: Power Analyzer by Keysight Whitepaper

Power integrity is the backbone of reliable PCB design. This whitepaper explains how to analyze and optimize voltage drop, current density, and grounding directly within Altium Designer Agile using the Power Analyzer by Keysight.

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Blog • May 19, 2020
Top 5 PCB Design Guidelines Every PCB Designer Needs to Know

What’s the key to designing a board that’s realistic on paper and in physical form? Let’s explore the top 5 design guidelines that you need to know to design your next manufacturable, functional and reliable PCB.

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Blog • May 14, 2020
How to Highlight Nets in Altium Designer to Simplify Schematic and PCB Designs

Highlighting nets will help you simplify your schematic and PCB design. In Altium , there are multiple options that enable you to leverage this capability to simplify the verification of connections and circuit paths and make sure that the design you send to your manufacturer accurately reflects the printed circuit board you need built.

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Blog • May 12, 2020
Keep Your Altium Designer PCB Layout in Line with Grids and Grid-Selection Shortcuts

The grid system in a printed circuit board design CAD system really is your friend, and if you haven’t taken the time to get properly introduced yet let me help you with that.

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Blog • May 7, 2020
How to Panelize Your PCBs Before Lunch with Altium Designer

Whether you have a slew of PCBs to mass produce for your customers or a handful of project boards you wish to prototype all in one simple swoop, panelization is an effective way to bring high amounts of efficiency to your production.

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Blog • May 5, 2020
Helpful Tips for Interactive Routing in Altium Designer

Before you jump into the software, you should know the types of things you’re going to want to look out for. Traces, connection lines, differential pair routing, and route paths can all affect the routing process of your board. Make sure that you’re equipped knowing, ultimately, what you want your board design to accomplish and furthermore, where you anticipate potential problem areas to be.

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Altium 365 + Altium Designer 20.1 Available Now!
Blog • May 1, 2020
Altium 365 + Altium Designer 20.1 Released Today - Work from Anywhere, Connect with Anyone
In our efforts to bring the best experience to the PCB design process, we are proud to announce the release of Altium Designer 20.1, Altium 365, and Altium NEXUS Client 3.1. This release enhances the design experience by bringing the convenience and benefits of the Altium 365 cloud platform to Altium Designer.
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Blog • Apr 27, 2020
Introduction to High Speed PCB Designing: How to Eliminate Crosstalk

Crosstalk on your PCB layout can be disastrous. If not corrected, crosstalk can cause your finished circuit board to either not work at all, or it may be plagued by intermittent problems. Let’s take a look at what crosstalk is and what you can do to prevent it.

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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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• Jun 16, 2020
Searching for Errors

We’ve looked at how to set up the Design Rule Checker to help us analyze our PCB design errors. Now it’s time to resolve these errors and prep our design to start generating output files.

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• Jun 16, 2020
Performing Board DRC

Design rules are crucial to a PCB’s overall design and performance. It’s just as important to adhere to these rules and ensure that we didn’t overlook any unconnected nets or short circuits. This is why we need to run a Design Rule check.

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• Jun 16, 2020
Placing a Custom 3D Body in 3D View

With the help of the 3D view, it is possible to view a PCB design from all sides, to check on component placement, silkscreen alignment, and many other visual aspects.

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• Jun 16, 2020
Silkscreen Placement

The silkscreen layer is the layer on which we print any visual text or symbols on our PCB. With the help of this silkscreen layer, we can print our component designators, pin placement, and more.

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• Jun 16, 2020
Working with Polygon Pours

When working with common signals, the current levels are usually quite minimal, but when working with power nets it’s not uncommon to see current levels of a few amps. One of the reasons to use polygons is to maintain the quality and reliability of the power supply system.

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• Jun 16, 2020
Routing Post Processes

Depending on how you routed your board, it may be a time-consuming process to fix these manually. So we’ll dive into Route Glossing a little more, along with an automated way to retrace pre-existing routes.

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• Jun 16, 2020
PCB Layout Cleanup

After the board has been routed, it’s almost certain that you’ll need to either move, delete, or adjust some traces. We’ll be looking at a few basic methods to easily modify and remove traces in our design.

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• Jun 16, 2020
Differential Pair Routing

Routing Differential Pairs is similar to routing single traces, but there are additional rules and guidelines to follow that will help you avoid signal integrity problems.

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• Jun 16, 2020
Introduction to Routing

We’ve looked at different routing behaviors and options that we can change to make routing much easier. So we’re going to dive into the basics of routing and how these settings and routing modes can be applied.

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• Jun 10, 2020
Defining the Layer Stackup

The PCB is designed and formed as a stack of layers and the definition of the PCB layer stack is a critical element of successful printed circuit board design. In Altium Designer, the Layer Stack Manager is used to develop the printed circuit board internal design including layer-pairing, careful via design, any back drilling requirements, rigid/flex requirements, copper balancing, layer stack symmetry, and material compliance. This video guides you through creation of a layer stackup, adding the necessary layers, as well as adding an impedance profile.

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• May 20, 2020
Searching for Errors in Schematic

Searching for Errors: Errors and mistakes happen to everyone - from beginners to professionals. So we always preach how it is paramount for your design to be validated before pushing it to the PCB. But luckily it’s pretty easy to find and analyze any errors using Altium Designer. We’ll take a look at how to find and analyze errors in your schematic.

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• Jun 2, 2020
Creating Net Classes

A Net Class is a collection of nets that can be used for creating a targeted design rule. So for example, you may want all power and ground nets to have a minimum track width to handle a specific current rating. So we’ll show you how to assign these nets to a NetClass. 

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• May 14, 2020
Configuring Design Rules - Part 2

Altium Designer uses the concept of Design Rules to define the requirements of a design. These rules collectively form an instruction set for the PCB Editor to follow. They cover every aspect of the design - from routing widths, clearances, plane connection styles and so on. With a well-defined set of design rules, you can successfully complete board designs with varying and often stringent design requirements.

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• May 12, 2020
Routing Modes and Setup

Most of you know that routing can be a time consuming process, but it doesn’t have to be a daunting task if you have the right tools. So we’ll be looking at what options and settings can help us perfect the art of routing.

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• May 12, 2020
PCB Component Placement

Component placement in the PCB is an important stage of the design process as it sets the precedent for efficient and clean routing. We’ll be diving into different component placement methods along with some tips and tricks that you can use to make this an easy process. 

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• May 12, 2020
Configuring the Basic Rules

Altium Designer uses the concept of Design Rules to define the requirements of a design. These rules collectively form an instruction set for the PCB Editor to follow. They cover every aspect of the design - from routing widths, clearances, plane connection styles and so on. With a well-defined set of design rules, you can successfully complete board designs with varying and often stringent design requirements.

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Ansys
On-Demand Webinar • Apr 7, 2024
A Seamless Connection Between ECAD and Simulation
Altium and Ansys have partnered to solve the most time-consuming steps in between and even further developed a seamless integration and structured approach.
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On-Demand Webinar • Mar 29, 2024
Streamline Your Product Development - Altium 365 Cloud PLM Integration with Arena® PLM
Watch the webinar to discover how Altium 365 Cloud PLM Integration with Arena® can optimize your electronics product development processes. Discover the seamless connection between Altium 365 and the leading Cloud PLM system, designed to automate data flow, eliminate manual input, and minimize errors that lead to costly rework.
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On-Demand Webinar • Mar 18, 2024
Data Security and Access Controls for Electronics Development Teams
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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Harness design
On-Demand Webinar • Mar 12, 2024
Unlock Complete System Design with Altium Designer 24
Join us in this webinar where you'll gain valuable insights into optimizing your design workflow, enhancing productivity, and overcoming common challenges faced in multi-board design projects.
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On-Demand Webinar • Mar 8, 2024
Apply Modern Requirements and Systems Engineering for Faster Product Development
Watch the webinar to explore the future of electronics product development, focusing on Altium’s recent acquisition of Valispace. Understand how Valispace transforms requirements management and systems engineering, fostering enhanced collaboration, speeding up design processes, and leading to better products.
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On-Demand Webinar • Feb 29, 2024
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!
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power analyzed on a pcb
On-Demand Webinar • Feb 26, 2024
Efficient Thermal Management with SPICE Simulation in Altium Designer 24
Uncover the art of predicting and refining circuit behavior using cutting-edge simulation tools within Altium Designer.
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High speed
On-Demand Webinar • Feb 20, 2024
Advanced Techniques to design and optimize your High-Speed PCBs with Altium Designer
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Pcb co design
On-Demand Webinar • Feb 20, 2024
PCB CoDesign in Altium Designer Demo
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Harness design
On-Demand Webinar • Feb 20, 2024
Harness Design Demonstration
Discover how to streamline your cable harness design process using Altium's newest features—faster, simpler, and more integrated than ever before. Watch now and see how you can take your projects to the next level!
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Ansys
On-Demand Webinar • Feb 20, 2024
Seamless Connection Between ECAD and Simulation Environment Using Ansys CoDesigner
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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.
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faster electronics design
On-Demand Webinar • Nov 30, 2023
Empowering Faster Electronics Development with Altium Designer 24
Revolutionize your approach to electronic product development and unlock the full potential of collaborative design. Join us as we discover how Altium Designer 24's intuitive and intelligent design platform empowers engineers and design teams to accomplish tasks with precision and speed, leading to enhanced efficiency and accelerated project timelines.
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Gerber
On-Demand Webinar • Jul 20, 2020
From '0' to Gerber in 36.5 minutes
See how easy it is to create prototypes from scratch and automatically generate manufacturing files and standardized documentation using Altium Designer.
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