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Enhanced Constraint Manager in Altium Designer 25 • Jun 9, 2025
Enhanced Constraint Manager in Altium Designer 25. Part I: From Directives to Creepage Rules

We are introducing a new video series on the Enhanced Constraint Manager in Altium Designer 25. In the first chapter, Samer Aldhaher demonstrates how to define net classes, apply clearance and creepage rules, and validate constraints within both the schematic and PCB. The video uses a 1kW, 400V brushless DC motor driver project to illustrate real-world applications.

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Altium Designer's 25 Quantitative Benefits • Jun 6, 2025
Design Faster with Altium Designer 25

Every second and every click count in the product development cycle. See how the new PCB Layout Replication feature in Altium Designer 25 boosts your efficiency in the PCB design process. Want to improve even more? Check out our Benefit Calculator now!

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How-To's • Jun 5, 2025
Creating PCB Drill Drawings and Tables in Altium Designer

If you want to learn more about drill drawings and tables in your PCB designs using Altium Designer, this tutorial is a must-watch. In the video, our Tech Consultant Zach Peterson walks you through multiple methods for generating these critical fabrication documents, including automatic Gerber outputs and custom drawings.

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New in Altium Designer 25 • Jun 4, 2025
Streamlining Team Collaboration in Industrial PCB Projects - Recording Preview

This webinar recording shows how Altium Designer and Altium 365 improve team collaboration in industrial PCB projects. It covers features like version control, live commenting, task tracking, and JIRA integration to help teams work more efficiently and reduce costly errors.

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Blog • Jun 3, 2025
Preparing for Prototype: Final Component Validation

Final component validation is the last critical check before building a prototype, ensuring all parts are accurate, available, and viable. This article shows how Altium’s integrated tools—like SiliconExpert, Z2Data, Octopart, and BOM Portal—help teams avoid costly surprises and prepare with confidence.

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Blog • Jun 2, 2025
Getting Started with Harness Design in Altium Designer 25

Explore the essential steps and tools for Harness Design in Altium Designer 25, from initial setup to final documentation. The article highlights how the unified design environment streamlines the entire process, improving efficiency and project integration.

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Blog • May 30, 2025
The Future of PCB Design Starts Here

Altium Designer is constantly evolving, with powerful new features and updates on the way. Get an exclusive first look at what’s coming next—visit our Coming Soon page to stay up to date with the latest innovations.

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Blog • May 29, 2025
Simplify Harness-to-System Connections for Better PCB Design Outcomes

Struggling to keep harness and system designs in sync? In our brand-new article we explore how integrating PCB and harness design workflows can eliminate errors, improve collaboration, and accelerate your development process. Discover a smarter approach to connecting your harness to the system.

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How-To's • May 28, 2025
AC Coupling Capacitors: Placement for High-Speed PCB Design

Learn the facts about AC coupling capacitor placement in high-speed PCB designs. In this video, Zach Peterson explores the ongoing debate: should AC coupling capacitors be placed near the transmitter or the receiver in high-speed differential pairs?

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Blog • May 27, 2025
The Crucial Balance: Cost, Quality, and Availability In Electronic Component Selection

Balancing cost, quality, and availability is key when selecting electronic components. This article explores how to make informed choices that meet design goals while managing supply chain and sourcing challenges.

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New in Altium Designer 25 • May 23, 2025
Coming Soon: Export 3D-MID Tracks as Centerline Curves

Coming Soon: 3D-MID Track-to-Centerline Export allows you to export conductive tracks on 3D substrates as precise centerline curves within STEP files—enabling seamless integration with advanced 5-axis manufacturing processes. Explore more upcoming upgrades on our Coming Soon page.

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New in Altium Designer 25 • May 20, 2025
Advanced xSignal and Impedance Control Techniques - Recording Preview

This webinar recording explores advanced xSignal and impedance control techniques in Altium Designer 25. It covers defining xSignals, managing impedance profiles, differential pairs, and delay tuning—all essential for high-speed PCB design. Full recording you find here: April 2025 COM Webinar Recording.

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Blog • May 19, 2025
Wire Harness Failures: The Hidden Costs and Real-World Recalls That Could Have Been Prevented

Wire harness failures can lead to significant financial losses, production delays, and safety hazards. This article delves into real-world examples of such failures across industries and illustrates how modern CAD tools can help prevent these costly issues.

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How-To's • May 16, 2025
Coming Soon: Embedded 3D Models for Harness Designs

Coming soon: the Embedded 3D Models for Harness Designs feature will automatically include Parasolid-format 3D models in your harness layout drawings. This improves integration with MCAD CoDesigner, enabling seamless synchronization between electrical and mechanical design domains. To see more upcoming upgrades, visit our Coming Soon page.

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New in Altium Designer 25 • May 14, 2025
Make Smarter Design Decisions with Signal Analyzer by Keysight

Discover how to simplify your workflow and boost design confidence with Signal Analyzer by Keysight—a complete extension available right inside Altium Designer 25. This whitepaper shows you how to analyze impedance, delay, and insertion/return loss without ever leaving your design environment.

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Blog • May 13, 2025
Part Selection Fundamentals: Creating Resilient Component Requirements

Learn how to ensure electronic components meet the demands of harsh environments. This article explores key standards, testing protocols, and design considerations for building resilient systems that perform reliably under extreme conditions.

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Blog • Jul 2, 2025
PCB First-Pass Yield: Small Decisions That Make a Big Difference

This article highlights how seemingly minor layout choices like trace spacing, component footprints, or stack-up details can dramatically impact whether a board passes fabrication and assembly the first time.

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Blog • Jul 1, 2025
Implementing Design for Supply Chain Principles in Electronic Product Development

Designing with supply chain principles in mind helps you avoid delays, reduce costs, and ensure manufacturability. This article outlines practical strategies for component selection, sourcing, and lifecycle management to make your designs more resilient and production-ready.

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Blog • Jun 27, 2025
Beyond the BOM: How Proactive Component Selection Is Transforming Workflows

Learn how proactive component selection helps you avoid supply chain risks, reduce costs, and design more reliably. Our new article outlines key strategies and shows how tools like Altium 365 support smarter part decisions.

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Blog • Jun 26, 2025
Power Integrity Issues?

Power problems can be hard to spot until it’s too late. See how easy it is to analyze your power nets, check voltage drops, and improve reliability with Power Analyzer by Keysight - all without leaving your design environment.

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Blog • Jun 24, 2025
How to Design High-Speed PCBs Without Signal Surprises

Signal issues can sneak in early and cost you later. Read our whitepaper to see how Signal Analyzer by Keysight (inside Altium Designer) helps you catch problems fast and design with confidence.

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Blog • Jun 18, 2025
Beyond Basic Part Selection: Using Supply Chain Data to Validate Choices

Learn how to enhance part selection by using real-time supply chain data. This article shows how integrating insights like availability and lifecycle status helps you make smarter, risk-aware design choices.

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Blog • Jun 17, 2025
Signal Mistakes Are Expensive

See how the Signal Analyzer by Keysight in Altium Designer lets you run signal integrity checks directly within your design environment. Read our article to learn how to effectively manage impedance, return paths, stackups, and more.

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Blog • Jun 12, 2025
Twice the Insight. One Seamless Simulation Bundle

Ensure power and signal integrity with the Keysight Bundle in Altium Designer. Catch issues early, reduce rework, and optimize your PCBs - all within one integrated environment featuring Signal & Power Analyzer.

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Blog • Jun 3, 2025
Preparing for Prototype: Final Component Validation

Final component validation is the last critical check before building a prototype, ensuring all parts are accurate, available, and viable. This article shows how Altium’s integrated tools—like SiliconExpert, Z2Data, Octopart, and BOM Portal—help teams avoid costly surprises and prepare with confidence.

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Blog • Jun 2, 2025
Getting Started with Harness Design in Altium Designer 25

Explore the essential steps and tools for Harness Design in Altium Designer 25, from initial setup to final documentation. The article highlights how the unified design environment streamlines the entire process, improving efficiency and project integration.

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Blog • May 30, 2025
The Future of PCB Design Starts Here

Altium Designer is constantly evolving, with powerful new features and updates on the way. Get an exclusive first look at what’s coming next—visit our Coming Soon page to stay up to date with the latest innovations.

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Blog • May 29, 2025
Simplify Harness-to-System Connections for Better PCB Design Outcomes

Struggling to keep harness and system designs in sync? In our brand-new article we explore how integrating PCB and harness design workflows can eliminate errors, improve collaboration, and accelerate your development process. Discover a smarter approach to connecting your harness to the system.

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Blog • May 27, 2025
The Crucial Balance: Cost, Quality, and Availability In Electronic Component Selection

Balancing cost, quality, and availability is key when selecting electronic components. This article explores how to make informed choices that meet design goals while managing supply chain and sourcing challenges.

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Blog • May 19, 2025
Wire Harness Failures: The Hidden Costs and Real-World Recalls That Could Have Been Prevented

Wire harness failures can lead to significant financial losses, production delays, and safety hazards. This article delves into real-world examples of such failures across industries and illustrates how modern CAD tools can help prevent these costly issues.

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Blog • May 13, 2025
Part Selection Fundamentals: Creating Resilient Component Requirements

Learn how to ensure electronic components meet the demands of harsh environments. This article explores key standards, testing protocols, and design considerations for building resilient systems that perform reliably under extreme conditions.

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Blog • May 12, 2025
Printed Electronics: The Future of Flexible and Cost-Effective Circuit Design

This article explores the rise of printed electronics as a lightweight, flexible, and cost-effective alternative to traditional PCB design. It highlights key benefits like reduced manufacturing costs, sustainability, and new design possibilities—especially in wearables, medical devices, and automotive applications. 

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How to Design a BGA • Dec 1, 2021
Via-in-Pad for BGA

We’ll teach you how to use Via-in-pad to reduce inductance, improve signal integrity, and improve power distribution system performance in BGA designs.

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How to Design a BGA • Nov 26, 2021
Using HDI Stackups during BGA Design

Micro Vias and Buried Vias play an important role in high density interconnection layer stackups (HDI Stackups). We’ll show you how to add via and create rules to allow you to take full advantage of the HDI Stackup.

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How to Design a BGA • Nov 22, 2021
Automatic Fanout With BGA

When routing a BGA it can be necessary to use automatic fanout to make the routing process easier and faster. We’ll show you how to run the automatic fanout for routing a BGA and how the rules can affect the outcome of the route.

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How to Design a BGA • Nov 19, 2021
Specifying NSMD and SMD for BGA

BGA layouts use two types of pads: SMD, Solder Mask Pads, or NSMD, Non-Solder Mask Pads. Here we’ll walk you through the differences and how to specify and edit them for your layout.

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Via Stitching • Nov 17, 2021
Via Shielding and Stitching

Altium Designer gives you full control over your via shielding and stitching. We’ll show you how to use our shielding and stitching tools, how to alter their parameters, and how to remove any unwanted via shielding and stitching.

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How To Work with High-Speed Projects • Nov 15, 2021
xSignals for DDR3 and DDR4

In a high-speed design, DDR3 and DDR4 memory chips can utilize xSignal classes to match track lengths from the controller to the memory chip easily and quickly using the xSignals wizard.

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How To Work with High-Speed Projects • Nov 12, 2021
High-Speed Tuning

If you use high-speed interfaces like USB 3.0, PCIE, or DDR3/DDR4, you need to use match length tuning to ensure that they work properly. We’ll show you why and how, as well as demonstrating the different tools for length tuning.

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How to Work with Draftsman • Nov 8, 2021
Using Document Parameters with Draftsman

The Draftsman Editor in Altium Designer uses document parameters to allow fine grain control over the draftsman document. We’ll show you how you can use the document parameters in your Draftsman document. 

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How To Work with High-Speed Projects • Nov 5, 2021
High-Speed Features of Creating a Stack

The foundation of any high speed design is the layer stack. We’ll show you some of Altium Designer’s powerful layer stack creation features.

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How To Work with High-Speed Projects • Nov 3, 2021
High-Speed Return Paths

For high speed designs it is critical to maintain your return path for adequate signal integrity. We’ll show you how, using best practices and error resolutions in Altium Designer.

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How to Work with Draftsman • Nov 1, 2021
Working with Design Variants

Altium Designer’s Draftsman Document allows for several different board views and variants that you can work with. We’ll show you how to add new variants and work with their properties to display exactly what you need in your Draftsman Document

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How To Work with High-Speed Projects • Oct 29, 2021
Creating Schematics in High-speed Projects

There are several powerful features in Altium Designer for creating schematics in high speed projects. We’ll show you a few, such as how to utilize nets, net classes, blankets, design rules, and differential pairs.

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How to Work with Multichannel Schematic • Oct 25, 2021
Creating Connectivity

Multichannel connectivity can be created in a few different ways. We’ll show you how to create connectivity using ports and net labels efficiently and effectively. 

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How To Work with High-Speed Projects • Oct 22, 2021
Hierarchical Structure for High-Speed Projects

A Hierarchical structure can make your high speed project much easier to navigate and complete. We’ll show you some tips and tricks for creating and maintaining a high speed. Hierarchical design project.

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How to work with Snippets • Oct 20, 2021
Schematic Design Reuse Using Snippets

Snippets allow you to easily reuse circuitry across multiple parts of your designs. We’ll show you how create a new snippets the Schematic and how to connect and annotate it so you can easily bring your circuitry directly into your board.

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How to work with Snippets • Oct 15, 2021
PCB Design Reuse Using Snippets

Snippets give you easy access to reuse circuitry on your PCB. Let’s take a look at how you can create and configure snippets for the PCB, connect a component link with the schematic and update the PCB to include your snippet.

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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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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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