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Altium Designer's 25 Quantitative Benefits • May 9, 2025
Unveiling 86% Task Time Efficiency in Altium Designer 25

Watch how Altium Designer 25 saves time on PCB visualization. This short video shows a side-by-side comparison of the same task done in Altium Designer 25 vs. an external CAD tool—revealing big time and click savings. A great teaser to highlight the value of the unified design environment and promote the Benefit Calculator.

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How-To's • May 8, 2025
AGND vs PGND: Proper Net Tie Connections in Power Regulator PCB Design

What’s the difference between AGND and PGND — and when should you use a net tie? Zach Peterson breaks down proper PCB layout for buck converters, grounding best practices, and why component placement matters in switching regulator designs.

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Blog • May 7, 2025
How to Choose the Best Requirements Management Tool for Electronics Development

Many electronics teams still rely on documents and spreadsheets for requirements management—leading to gaps, errors, and delays. Alexsander Tamari explores better tools to improve traceability, collaboration, and project outcomes.

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Blog • May 6, 2025
New Routing Possibilities with Ultra HDI

Explore how Ultra HDI technology is redefining PCB design. This article breaks down the benefits and manufacturing considerations of Ultra HDI, and how it enables next-level routing density and miniaturization in advanced electronics.

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Blog • May 5, 2025
3D-MID in Focus: Principles, Processes, and Practical Use

This article introduces 3D-MID (Mechatronic Integrated Devices), a technology that integrates circuitry into 3D plastic structures to reduce size, weight, and complexity. It explains the production process, use cases, and benefits of 3D-MID in sectors like automotive, medical, and consumer electronics.

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Altium Stories • May 2, 2025
Students at Monash UAS Fly Higher with Altium Solutions to Power Their Autonomous Drone Technology

Discover how the Monash Uncrewed Aerial Systems team leverages Altium Designer, MCAD CoDesigner, and Altium 365 to develop custom drone boards for critical humanitarian missions.

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Blog • Apr 30, 2025
Eliminate EMI and Signal Integrity Issues in Multi-Board PCB Designs

Ensure signal integrity and minimize EMI in complex electronics. Our new article explains how to address electromagnetic interference and signal integrity challenges in multi-board PCB designs, offering practical strategies and layout considerations for reliable system performance.

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New in Altium Designer 25 • Apr 29, 2025
Say Goodbye to Disjointed Workflows: Unified Product Design in Altium Designer 25

Check an overview of how Altium Designer 25 unifies Multi-Board and Harness Design into a seamless, efficient workflow for faster, error-free product development.

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New in Altium Designer 25 • Apr 28, 2025
From Concept to Reality: Updated 3D-MID Demo in Altium Designer 25

A walkthrough of the new 3D-MID capabilities in Altium Designer 25. Covers setting up a 3D PCB document, component placement on curved surfaces, routing with grids and sketches, exporting for LDS manufacturing, and generating a 3D pick-and-place file.

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Blog • Apr 25, 2025
How to Overcome Power Distribution and Connector Misalignment Challenges in Multi-Board PCB Systems

Connector misalignment can compromise the reliability of power delivery in multi-board systems. This article explores the causes, effects, and prevention strategies for connector misalignment in power distribution, helping you design more robust multi-board PCB systems.

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Altium Designer's 25 Quantitative Benefits • Apr 24, 2025
Take 66% of Your Time Back with Custom Pad Stack in Altium Designer 25

This video demonstrates the measurable productivity gains of using the Custom Pad Stack tool in Altium Designer 25. It compares a detailed QFN-32 footprint customization process across versions, showing a significant reduction in time and mouse clicks—2 min 5 sec vs. 6 min 2 sec, and 45 vs. 116 clicks.

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Blog • Apr 22, 2025
Mastering Component Templates in Altium Designer 25

Our new article by Dario Fresu explains how Component Templates in Altium Designer 25 Pro improve design consistency, reduce errors, and streamline collaboration. It highlights practical benefits like standardized naming, faster component creation, and scalability across projects. Includes examples of using templates with Altium 365™ to simplify complex component setup.

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How-To's • Apr 21, 2025
PCB Stackups in Reverse?

Watch our new tutorial on reverse PCB stackups — a unique approach that combines thin internal layers with thicker outer cores for specialized applications. Learn how to implement reverse stackups effectively in Altium Designer, understand key manufacturability constraints, and explore Rogers materials specifically suited for this technique.

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Blog • Apr 18, 2025
Wire Harness Design Guide for Development and Manufacturing

Designing a wire harness goes far beyond just connecting components—it’s about ensuring manufacturability, reliability, and compliance. This article walks you through the entire process, from initial design to production, helping you streamline development and avoid common pitfalls.

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New in Altium Designer 25 • Apr 16, 2025
Design Smarter - Harness, Multi-board, and MCAD CoDesign in Action

This webinar highlights how Altium Designer 25, with a Pro or Enterprise subscription, enables seamless ECAD-MCAD collaboration using Harness and Multi-board Design tools and the advanced MCAD CoDesigner. Viewers will learn how to integrate harness designs, optimize multi-board systems for enclosure fit, and synchronize designs with SolidWorks, PTC Creo, and Autodesk Inventor.

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Blog • Apr 15, 2025
Preparing for Medical Device Cybersecurity Assessments

Explore the key considerations and best practices for conducting cybersecurity assessments in medical device development. This article outlines how to identify potential threats, evaluate risks, and ensure compliance with evolving industry standards.

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Blog • Oct 7, 2024
Avoiding Costly Delays: Essential Tips for PCB Designers

Efficient PCB design is crucial for avoiding costly delays in product development. This article offers practical tips and best practices for PCB designers to streamline their workflows, minimize errors, and ensure timely project completion.

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Blog • Oct 3, 2024
Understanding Signal Reflections for High-Speed Design

Signal integrity is the backbone of high-speed digital systems. In this new article by Rafał Stępień, we break down signal reflections and how to optimize your designs with effective impedance matching techniques.

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Blog • Oct 1, 2024
Mastering EMI Control in PCB Design: Component Placement for EMC

In the second article of the "Mastering EMI Control in PCB Design" series Dario Fresu explores how effective component placement can reduce electromagnetic interference (EMI) in printed circuit boards. He highlights strategies such as board segregation and careful management of high-speed signals and their harmonics to ensure signal integrity and minimize emissions.

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Blog • Sep 23, 2024
Signal Integrity Principles based on Altium Designer 24

Check out this article where Rafał Stępień dives into the essentials of maintaining signal integrity in high-speed digital systems. Discover key techniques like controlling signal reflections, reducing crosstalk, and designing differential pairs in Altium Designer 24 to ensure reliable and efficient PCB performance.

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Blog • Sep 19, 2024
Launch of Requirements & Systems Portal in Altium 365

The Requirements & Systems Portal is now live in Altium 365! Engineers can write, manage, and verify requirements within the Altium 365 workspace. You can link your requirements directly to schematics and PCB designs to ensure all engineers are working with the latest data. Request access today!

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Blog • Sep 17, 2024
Enhancing Signal Integrity in PCB Design: Key Considerations and Strategies

Looking to enhance signal integrity in your PCB designs? Check out our latest article by David Marrakchi, where he shares key strategies and best practices for achieving reliable high-speed designs.

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Blog • Sep 4, 2024
Favorite Tools for BOM Review

Check out our article, where Lawrence Romine shares his top tools for conducting efficient Bill of Materials (BOM) reviews in PCB design. It highlights key features in Altium 365, Octopart, and ActiveBOM that help engineers avoid unsourceable components and streamline procurement.

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Blog • Aug 29, 2024
Mastering EMI Control in PCB Design: How Signals Propagate in a PCB

As the first article in the "Mastering EMI Control in PCB Design" series from our new asset Dario Fresu, this piece explores signal propagation in PCBs, highlighting the crucial roles of impedance, dielectric materials, and trace geometry in maintaining signal integrity.

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Blog • Aug 28, 2024
High-Speed PCB Design: Ensuring Signal Integrity, EMI Mitigation, and Thermal Management

Discover essential strategies for high-speed PCB design, focusing on signal integrity, EMI mitigation, and thermal management. Our latest article provides insights on managing crosstalk, optimizing grounding, and addressing thermal challenges to ensure reliable PCB performance.

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Blog • Aug 26, 2024
Designing Micro-vias with Sintered Paste for Rigid-Flex Printed Circuit Boards

Designing microvias with sintered paste in rigid-flex PCBs offers enhanced electrical conductivity and mechanical strength, crucial for high-density applications. Our new article explores the benefits of sintered paste and provides essential design tips to optimize microvia performance and reliability.

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Blog • Aug 14, 2024
Simple Strategies to Reach 10% PCB Cost Reduction

Our new article outlines strategies to achieve a 10% reduction in PCB costs by optimizing design and material choices, such as adjusting stack-up materials and hole sizes, using lower-cost parts, and considering single-sided assembly. These techniques help reduce expenses without sacrificing quality.

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Blog • Aug 9, 2024
Say Goodbye to EDA Software Vendor Lock

Check how Altium 365 helps eliminate EDA software vendor lock by enabling multi-CAD support in the cloud. This allows users to work with different CAD file formats within a single platform, enhancing collaboration and reducing the need for additional licenses. This approach offers greater flexibility and is set to transform the industry.

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Blog • Aug 7, 2024
The Ultimate Introduction to High-Speed Signal Integrity for PCB Designers

High-speed signal integrity is essential in PCB design to ensure data accuracy and system reliability. Key issues like impedance mismatches, crosstalk, and signal reflections need to be addressed through strategies such as controlled impedance traces, differential pairs, and suitable material choices. Check out our first article of the series about this topic.

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Blog • Aug 5, 2024
Multi-Board PCB Signal Integrity: A Complete Guide

Our new article on signal integrity in multi-board PCBs covers essential aspects like connector pinouts, cable designs, and interconnect strategies. These factors ensure reliable performance in high-speed applications across industries such as military, aerospace, and AI.

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Blog • Jul 30, 2024
Multi-CAD Support Will Be a Game Changer for Electronics Design Teams

Discover how multi-CAD support is transforming electronics design with Altium 365 by enabling seamless integration of diverse CAD file formats. This innovation addresses vendor lock-in issues, boosting collaboration, version control, and project management across different CAD tools.

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Blog • Jul 26, 2024
Pi.MX8 Project - Board Layout Part 4

We invite you to explore a new chapter in the PiMX8 Project, focusing on the final stages of PCB layout design for the Pi.MX8 compute module. This installment covers critical topics such as routing power planes and signal delay tuning, essential for ensuring proper functionality and performance.

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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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 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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Join our live training workshop and see Altium Designer in action—from creating your first schematic to delivering ready-to-manufacture PCB files.
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Altium Platform
On-Demand Webinar • Nov 21, 2025
Altium Platform - A foundation to meet your & your company’s targets
Discover how the Altium platform makes multidisciplinary cooperation easy and efficient.
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Harness design
On-Demand Webinar • Nov 17, 2025
From single PCB to Harnessed Product
Discover how to streamline PCB-to-harness design with Altium’s powerful tools and boost collaboration across disciplines.
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3D-MID Design
On-Demand Webinar • Oct 20, 2025
3D-MID Design in Altium
Discover how even complex products for 3D circuit designs are implemented easily in Altium.
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Altium Designer Overview
On-Demand Webinar • Aug 20, 2025
Altium Designer and Altium 365 Overview
In this webinar we will show you how easy it is to create a prototype from scratch using Altium Designer in combination with Altium 365.
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Altium Enterprise
On-Demand Webinar • Aug 3, 2025
Safety & Reliability in Electronics Design – Strategies, Standards & Tools
How can development teams and decision-makers effectively implement safety, security, and compliance without delaying innovation?
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On-Demand Webinar • Aug 2, 2025
Sustainability & Energy Efficiency in Electronic Product Development
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Proactive Component Selection
On-Demand Webinar • May 22, 2025
Proactive Component Selection: Mitigating Manufacturing Delays Before They Happen
Most teams spend hours on component research yet still face redesigns. Learn how Altium 365 helps you make proactive, data-driven part decisions. Join SiliconExpert’s Jackie Sartin to discover smarter sourcing with real-time insights and validated alternatives.
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