Altium Designer
Advanced Course

- Using Signal Harnesses - Schematic Design Directives - Design Variants Schematics are the backbone of hardware design and have their own complex requirements. The advanced features taught in this course cover signal harnesses, an advanced version of buses, which enables the simplification of large on-board interfaces, as well as design variants, which allow for a singular PCB design to be assembled in multiple configurations.

- Net and Component Classes - PCB Queries & PCB Filter Panel - Clearance Checking in 3D Designing complex PCBs requires the use of complex design rules and circuit verification; for electromechanical designs, appropriate 3D clearance checks are required when checking for mechanical collision violations; with high speed signal interfaces, entire classes of nets need to be created and checked for validation. These types of designs require the use of the PCB Query language, and PCB design rules and constraints that leverage the full functionality of Altium Designer.

- Re-Routing - Active Routing - Pin Swapping Routing is a complex process in even the simplest of designs, however with higher pin count components this becomes even more challenging. The advanced routing section of this course covers pin swapping and active routing to assist with design acceleration. In addition, the course examines re-routing which enables design improvements and optimization for fabrication yield.

- Differential Pair Routing - Impedance Profile - Length Tuning - High Speed Design with xSignals - High Speed Design with xSignals and Differential Pairs High speed data interfaces in PCB designs have a unique set of requirements that needs to be met. Differential pairs need to be routed in an identical manner, ensuring that each of the signals see the same changes. This section of the course will cover the creation of xSignals, as well as Length and Matched Length rule constraints for both single ended and differential pair signals.

- Back Drilling - Via Stitching - Defining the Board Shape using 3D STEP model PCB design is one part of product development, which needs to integrate information from other workflows, such as 3D models of mechanical enclosures; Altium Designer enables and simplifies the process of board shape creation by importing native mechanical STEP files. In addition to this, the ability to clearly show Back Drilling (controlled depth drilling) information, and Back Drilled via properties, becomes critical for easing transition into board manufacturing.

- Teardrops - Test Points - Embedded Board Array PCB experts of tomorrow need not only to understand the current process of designing printed circuit boards, but also need to understand the manufacturing processes that go into creating these boards. Having greater knowledge of such features as teardrops enables designers and engineers to improve fabrication yields, Altium Designers Embedded Board Array feature helps to speed up the board parallelization process. The Testpoint Manager tool helps to create the necessary outputs for both board Fabrication continuity testing and Assembly in-circuit testing.

- PCB Layer Stack Management - Flex and Rigid-Flex Printed Circuit Design Altium Designer’s Board Planning Mode enables the creation of both flexible and rigid board regions as well as enabling split and bend lines of flexible circuits. Both layer stack management and multi-layered design is extensively covered in the course, along with configuring flex bend lines and animation to ensure flex circuits are built correctly the first time.

- Design Reuse (Snippets) - Multi Channel Design - Board Level Annotation Modern PCB design relies upon designers and engineers correctly creating schematics and pcb layouts, having the capability to create multiple channel designs reduces time spent duplicating both schematics and layout of repeated circuity. In addition, being able to reuse existing proven design segments allows for greater first time success of a new project.

- Schematic Templates - PCB and PCB Library Templates - Bill of Material Templates - Draftsman Templates - PCB Project Template When starting a project or producing the final deliverables, having all of the documentation meet a standard and provide company details is important. The advanced course dives into template creation to assist with the streamlining of your workflow and ensuring consistent project outputs. Participants who complete this training will be able to use many of the advanced features and functionality of Altium Designer more efficiently when creating PCB designs. If you are interested in attending one of our courses, you can find our upcoming dates here: http://www.altium.com/events/.