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How-To's • Oct 1, 2025
Mechanically Drilled Blind & Buried Vias: PCB Design Rules Explained

Discover the essential design rules and manufacturing processes for mechanically drilled blind and buried vias in PCB layouts in this comprehensive tutorial. We cover the stack drill-and-plate fabrication process, aspect ratio limitations, sub-lamination design, and copper weight considerations. You’ll also learn how these vias differ from HDI microvias and gain a clear understanding of the critical design constraints needed for successful PCB manufacturing.

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Blog • Sep 30, 2025
Behind the Scenes with AI Embedded Development

Forget one-shot AI hacks Ari Mahpour shows the thoughtful, sustainable way to integrate AI into embedded firmware development. Learn the core principles (planning gate, HAL abstraction, observability, timeout design) that can help you push your efficiency 5-10 times in real hardware projects.

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Altium Training • Sep 29, 2025
Altium Training - Design Environment: Navigation with Schematic Workspace

Discover the most important navigation techniques for the schematic workspace using both mouse and keyboard controls. In this tutorial video, you’ll learn how to use the View menu commands for document fitting, area zooming, and object selection, along with advanced navigation shortcuts. Master mouse-based panning and zooming, explore Ctrl key combinations, and practice arrow key movements - all designed to simplify your workflow in the PCB design process.

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Blog • Sep 25, 2025
We're heading to PCB West 2025!

Join Altium at PCB West 2025 in Santa Clara, CA, on October 1! Stop by Booth 300 for the official launch of the new Altium platform, built on the foundation of Altium Designer and Altium 365. Be sure to check out our live demos of Altium Develop and Altium Agile.

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Blog • Sep 24, 2025
Peak Electrical Performance in Multi-Board Designs With Advanced Simulation and Compliance Tools

Moving from single-board to multi-board systems is a leap in complexity. You must manage not just routing, but power, signal integrity, mechanical fit, and regulatory requirements across boards. In this article, you’ll discover how Altium’s advanced simulation and compliance tools help engineering teams overcome these challenges and deliver reliable multi-board solutions.

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How-To's • Sep 23, 2025
Altium Training - Design Environment: The Altium Environment

Get familiar with the core workspace layout and navigation methods. In this video, you’ll see how to open schematic and PCB documents, work within the unified design environment, and move between multiple open files using document tabs and keyboard shortcuts.

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Blog • Sep 22, 2025
How to Catch Enclosure and Connector Misalignment Before the First Prototype

As electronics continue to miniaturize and functionality increases, even minor misalignments between enclosures and connectors can derail a project. This article explores how early integration of ECAD and MCAD workflows helps detect and eliminate those costly issues before the first prototype is built.

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Altium Training • Sep 18, 2025
Altium Training - Design Environment: Opening a Project from a Local Drive

Get your PCB design workflow off to a smooth start. This Altium tutorial walks you through opening projects from your local directory - a core skill that keeps your process efficient and organized from day one.

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Blog • Sep 17, 2025
Executive Insights Into Electronic Product Development Gaps You Need To Close

Electronics hardware development is falling behind broader product development disciplines due to fragmented workflows, poor collaboration, and limited compliance visibility. This gap introduces risk, delays, and missed opportunities but executives see real business value in modernizing electronics development through better integration, traceability, and lifecycle visibility.

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Altium Training • Sep 16, 2025
Altium Essentials: Design Environment

Take control of your PCB design workflow with Altium Essentials: Design Environment. This tutorial module guides you through the fundamentals of workspace management, from handling panels and documents to mastering menus, context commands, and time-saving shortcuts.

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Blog • Sep 15, 2025
Sourcing For High-Mix Low-Volume Electronics Manufacturing

High-mix, low-volume (HMLV) electronics manufacturing requires agile sourcing strategies to handle shifting BOMs, erratic lead times, and component volatility. All while controlling costs and ensuring compliance. Cloud-based tools like Altium provide real-time component visibility, BOM collaboration, and supplier integrations to help navigate HMLV complexities.

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How-To's • Sep 11, 2025
What Makes a Great PCB Design Review Submission?

Turn your PCB designs into professional-grade submissions. At Altium, we reveal the key practices that transform schematics, layouts, and documentation into review-ready work that stands out. Watch our brand-new tutorial and take your PCB design process to the next level.

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Blog • Sep 10, 2025
How to Solve Fit, Form, and Function Challenges in Robotics with ECAD-MCAD Collaboration

As robotics systems become increasingly miniaturized and intricate, ensuring perfect fit, form, and function across electrical and mechanical domains is critical to avoid design setbacks. Real-time ECAD-MCAD integration with two-way sync empowers teams to streamline workflows, reduce PCB rework, and deliver more reliable designs faster.

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Altium Training • Sep 9, 2025
Altium Training - Workspace Folder Structure: Opening the Explorer Panel

Discover the key ways to access the Explorer panel in Altium Designer with this step-by-step tutorial. The video walks you through four different methods, giving you the freedom to choose the approach that best fits your workflow.

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Blog • Sep 8, 2025
One Vision, Three Powerful Solutions: Introducing Altium Discover, Altium Develop, and Altium Agile

We are excited to announce the launch of three new platform-based solutions that will transform the way electronic products are designed, built, and delivered: Altium Discover, Altium Develop, and Altium Agile. These solutions are designed to simplify processes, accelerate innovation, and make collaboration seamless across the entire electronics lifecycle. Together, they realize the purpose of Altium and Renesas: To Make Our Lives Easier.

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Blog • Sep 4, 2025
The Cost of Overreaction: How Misguided Orders Disrupt the Semiconductor Market

Discover how short-sighted ordering practices fuel volatility in the semiconductor market and why smarter, data-driven approaches are key to building resilience and sustainability.

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Blog • Aug 21, 2023
Webinar: Design with Confidence - Altium 365 meets SiliconExpert

Join us on August 23 at 10 am PDT for a new exciting #webinar! Learn how the SiliconExpert integration in Altium 365 can optimize your workflows and elevate your design process. Hear from experts from SiliconExpert and discover insights into data-driven design decisions. Also don't miss the chance to see the integration in action and explore improved risk analysis and alternative component discovery features.

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Blog • Aug 17, 2023
RF Power Amplifier Module PCB Design

RF power amplifiers can be found in many wireless products, often integrated into chipsets or modems. However, in certain specialized systems, you might require higher power output at a specific frequency. This necessitates a discrete amplifier circuit to deliver that power. In this article, we present an example project for a power amplifier that you can incorporate into your RF project.

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Blog • Aug 15, 2023
Avoid GIGO in Your PCB Simulation Tools

Simulation tools are extremely useful for understanding electromagnetic behavior in a design. Learn more about how to avoid obtaining inaccurate results during your PCB simulation process.

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Blog • Aug 14, 2023
Altium 365 PCB Compare Feature is Released

We are grateful to our beta testers for their valuable feedback. Your insights and suggestions have helped us significantly improve the product, and we couldn't have done it without you.

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Blog • Aug 11, 2023
Altium 365 CMMC Level 1

Altium has achieved CMMC Level 1 self-assessment, demonstrating our commitment to security. Users benefit from enhanced data protection, trusted relationships, access to SPRS scores, and CMMC 2.0 compliance. Organizations can leverage Altium 365 GovCloud to satisfy CMMC 2.0 requirements.

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Blog • Aug 9, 2023
Announcing the NEW Altium 365 BOM Manager

We are excited to announce the newest Altium 365 application which will connect design and procurement in the early stages of the hardware development process. You can now begin forecasting risks and costs from the moment the first components are selected. Our new BOM Manager is now in open beta. Request access now.

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Blog • Aug 9, 2023
Choosing a Converter or Regulator For Your Power Supply Design

When designing the power supply for your device, there are lots of different options. In this article, we will take a brief tour of the main choices in DC power supply design.

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Benefits of Ultra HDI
Blog • Aug 7, 2023
The Benefits of Ultra HDI

Learn more about the combination of using both flexible materials and ultra-HDI feature sizes in this article.

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Blog • Aug 2, 2023
Understanding Power Supply Current Handling Issues: Causes and Solutions

Troubleshooting power supply current handling issues is crucial to achieving optimal performance of your electronic devices. In this article, we will explore the common reasons why a power supply fails to handle the defined output current and provide practical solutions to solving these issues.

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Blog • Aug 1, 2023
Design with Confidence: Altium 365 Meets SiliconExpert

We're thrilled to announce our new integration of SiliconExpert into Altium365! Streamline your design workflow, mitigate risks, and enhance decision-making with comprehensive, reliable, and accurate component data. Compliance management? Made easier. Component selection? More efficient. Risk analysis? With one click.

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Blog • Jul 31, 2023
Concept Phase – Cooling and Airflow Part 1

Next step in our open-source laptop project is to explain how to design cooling and airflow. In this article, we can show you the first part of this process, such as airflow concept, fan measurement and clearance.

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Harness Design
Blog • Jul 26, 2023
Create Connections with Harness Design

Many modern electronics have multiple boards, and connecting those different boards and systems together are harnesses. Learn more about how Altium Designer can help you create harnesses for your own multi-board designs here.

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Voltage Fluctuation
Blog • Jul 24, 2023
Do You Know How to Prevent Voltage Fluctuation?

We invite you to explore the causes of output voltage fluctuation. In this article we provide you insights on how to solve and prevent these issues.

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Laser Range Finder
Blog • Jul 17, 2023
How to Build Your Own Laser Range Finder

In this article we will show you how to create step by step a digital laser range finder for your own. Everything is based on Raspberry Pi board.  

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Blog • Jul 11, 2023
Nucleo Shields Multi-Board Design

Learn how easy it is to create multi-board projects. This practical project article covers the reasons for breaking larger boards into sub-assemblies and explores the various connection options available between sub-assembly boards.

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Blog • Jul 10, 2023
Analog Solar Tracker Project

In this article you can learn about light sensors while building an analog solar panel tracking system. This open-source project covers multi-channel design, window comparators, driving motors, and photosensors.

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How-To's • Aug 12, 2025
Altium Harness Design Tutorial - From Schematic to 3D Layout

Design professional harness systems in Altium with confidence. Follow this comprehensive tutorial to learn multiboard project setup, create wiring diagrams, visualize in 3D, and produce manufacturing-ready documentation complete with ECAD-MCAD integration for precise wire length measurement.

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How-To's • Aug 7, 2025
Arduino to Custom PCB: Professional Design Transformation

Discover how to upgrade your Arduino Nano-based PCB design into a professional, custom PCB. This tutorial walks through the process of replacing development boards with individual components to create a production-ready design, using a real drone project as the example.

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How-To's • Aug 5, 2025
PCB Library Management: One Library or Many?

This detailed guide walks you through the pros and cons of each approach and offers proven strategies for managing component data, whether you're an independent designer or overseeing libraries for an entire organization.

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New in Altium Designer 25 • Jul 31, 2025
Coming Soon: Sawtooth Rounding Support for Length Tuning

Sawtooth Rounding for Length Tuning improves signal‑path accuracy by applying controlled corner‑rounding to sawtooth geometries during both Interactive Length Tuning and within‑pair matching in the Auto Tuning engine. Discover this capability and additional innovations on our Coming Soon page.

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New in Altium Designer 25 • Jul 29, 2025
Coming Soon: Z-Axis Clearance Rule

The Z-Axis Clearance Rule checks the shortest distance between copper features on different layers in a PCB design. It is available in both the Constraint Manager and the legacy PCB Rules Editor. Discover more new features in Altium on our Coming Soon Page.

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New in Altium Designer 25 • Jul 24, 2025
Coming Soon: Advanced Polygon Pour Engine

Now supports true arcs instead of approximated curves in copper pours. This enhanced engine marks a major advancement in the polygon pour process in Altium Designer, delivering smoother and more accurate copper shapes. Native arc rendering improves visual quality and helps ensure cleaner, more professional PCB designs.

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How-To's • Jul 22, 2025
How to Design Rigid-Flex PCB Stackups from Scratch

Watch this tutorial to learn the fundamentals of Rigid-Flex design. We cover everything from understanding polyimide materials and adhesive layers to building complex, multi-layer Rigid-Flex constructions that are ready for manufacturing.

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How-To's • Jul 17, 2025
How to Draw Antipads - Complete Tutorial

Discover how to draw and define antipads in Altium with this complete tutorial. Learn three different methods for creating antipads around vias. From simple design rules to advanced polygon cutouts for both basic and complex PCB designs.

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How-To's • Jul 15, 2025
Do PCB Manufacturers Actually Look at Fabrication Drawings?

Explore this in-depth tutorial featuring real fabrication drawings, stackup specifications, and drill tables - all created using Altium Designer’s Draftsman tool. Learn essential insights into PCB data management and manufacturing requirements from an industry perspective.

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How-To's • Jul 10, 2025
Compensating Transmission Line Losses in a PCB Calculator

This tutorial uncovers the key difference between ideal, lossless impedance calculations and real-world signal behavior giving you practical techniques to design controlled impedance PCBs that deliver reliable performance.

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How-To's • Jul 8, 2025
How Close Can You Bring a Reference Plane?

Explore our in-depth investigation into practical simulations using both Altium Designer and Polar Si9000. We demonstrate impedance sensitivity analysis and reveal the real limitations of optimizing reference plane proximity for improved signal shielding.

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How-To's • Jul 3, 2025
Do PCB Thermal Vias Actually Work?

Are thermal vias really helping your PCB’s heat management? Tech Consultant Zach Peterson dives into simulation data, research, and a controversial article to uncover the truth. Learn why via count and spacing matter more than sheer quantity.

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How-To's • Jun 30, 2025
Stripline Routing Deep Dive: How Close Is Too Close?

In this video, Zach Peterson takes a deep dive into what happens when reference layers are incorrectly set in a PCB stackup and how that affects impedance, signal integrity, and EMC. He also shares valuable insights into stripline routing proximity issues and best practices for assigning reference planes.

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New in Altium Designer 25 • Jun 25, 2025
Coming Soon: Solder Mask Zero Expansion

Solder Mask Zero Expansion marks a move toward industry alignment, specifically with IPC-7351B and IPC-2581B standards. It changes the default solder mask expansion value from 4 mil to 0 mil. Discover more upcoming updates on our Coming Soon Page.

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How-To's • Jun 20, 2025
Analog Supply without a Ferrite: Proper Isolation Techniques Explained

In our new tutorial, you'll learn why ferrite beads may not be the best choice for isolating analog and digital supply pins on integrated circuits. Zach Peterson debunks common misconceptions about ferrite bead isolation and introduces better alternatives, including dedicated LDOs, precision voltage references, and effective filtering techniques to help you achieve cleaner analog signals in your designs.

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Enhanced Constraint Manager in Altium Designer 25 • Jun 16, 2025
Enhanced Constraint Manager in Altium Designer 25. Part II: Physical Constraints and Routing Differential Pairs

In the second video of Samer Aldhaher’s "Enhanced Constraint Manager" series, we continue designing a 1 kW, 400 V brushless DC motor driver. This episode focuses on setting physical constraints using constraint sets, routing differential pairs, and demonstrating the Auto Shrinking feature in Altium Designer 25.

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On-Demand Webinar • Oct 24, 2024
Modernizing Engineering Workflows: Altium Designer 25 and the Future of Concurrent Design
Struggling with team misalignment and design errors? Join our exciting webinar to discover the groundbreaking advancements in Altium Designer 25!
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KiCad Webinar
On-Demand Webinar • Oct 16, 2024
Taking the Next Step: Growing Beyond KiCad with Altium
Join our upcoming webinar to discover how Altium Designer can transition your KiCad projects without any data loss
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Synchronize to Optimize Jira Integration
On-Demand Webinar • Oct 7, 2024
Synchronize to Optimize: Enhancing Efficiency with Jira Integration for Altium 365
Tired of juggling multiple tools for project management? Watch the webinar and see how Jira Integration for Altium 365 can optimize your workflows.
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Wire bonding
On-Demand Webinar • Sep 29, 2024
Unlock New Design Possibilities with Wire Bonding
Explore how wire bonding can enhance your designs, provide size reduction, improve power management, and increase mechanical reliability.
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On-Demand Webinar • Sep 29, 2024
Advanced Routing Features & Techniques
To help you get the most out of your experience with Altium Designer, join our webinar this month and learn advanced routing techniques.
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On-Demand Webinar • Sep 25, 2024
Signal Integrity Made Simple
Discover how to easily detect and resolve high-speed signal integrity challenges without the need for extensive expertise.
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On-Demand Webinar • Sep 20, 2024
Mastering Design Complexity: How Altium Designer Outperforms Cadence in Solving Workflow and Engineering Challenges - Part 2
Join our webinar to learn how to enhance efficiency, foster better collaboration, and accelerate your time-to-market with Altium unified solutions.
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Breaking Down Silos Webinar
On-Demand Webinar • Sep 16, 2024
Breaking Down Data Silos: A Practical Comparison of Altium and Cadence in Cross-Functional PCB Design
Join us for a webinar that addresses the critical challenges of maintaining design data continuity across various design functions.
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On-Demand Webinar • Sep 10, 2024
Mastering Design Complexity: How Altium Designer Outperforms Cadence in Solving Workflow and Engineering Challenges
Join our upcoming webinar to discover why engineers consistently choose Altium Designer as the standard in PCB design.
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SPICE
On-Demand Webinar • Sep 3, 2024
Mastering SPICE Simulation in Altium Designer
Discover how the SPICE engine in Altium Designer can help you easily verify that your finished project functions as intended.
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On-Demand Webinar • Aug 24, 2024
Beyond PCB Design with Altium Designer
In this webinar we'll dive into the essential aspects that go beyond the schematic and layout.
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On-Demand Webinar • Aug 23, 2024
Elevate Your Design Skills: Tips & Tricks for Success
Discover practical insights and efficient methods that can enhance your PCB design capabilities.
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On-Demand Webinar • Aug 6, 2024
The Anatomy of IT Compliance in Electronics Development: Altium 365 & AWS GovCloud
Are you an IT or security professional looking for a secure electronics design collaboration platform that could also support your ITAR and EAR compliance efforts? If so, watch this webinar to bring together the expertise of Altium 365 and AWS!
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Design reuse
On-Demand Webinar • Aug 1, 2024
How to Speed-up Product Development with Reusable Circuitry
In this webinar you'll learn more about the benefits of the design reuse blocks approach as well as the Design Reuse panel.
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On-Demand Webinar • Jul 19, 2024
Stay Ahead of the Curve: A Half-Year Review of Altium Designer Improvements
Join our exciting webinar to discover the groundbreaking advancements in Altium Designer!
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Lenght Tuning
On-Demand Webinar • Jun 26, 2024
Achieve Precision and Speed with Altium Designer 24's Innovative Routing Features
Speed up your routing process and achieve better results for even your most demanding designs.
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