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Altium Designer training manuals now available online!

Altium continues its mission of breaking down the barriers to innovation and technological advancement by providing unprecedented access to Altium Designer training manuals. These manuals, which are soft copies of the very manuals used in Altium’s comprehensive training courses covering Schematic Capture and PCB Editing, and FPGA, Software and Systems Development, can be downloaded free of charge.

“Altium has a long history of providing expert training that maximizes the return on investment that our customers have made in Altium tools. Although face-to-face training still represents one of the best mechanisms for quickly becoming productive, we have released this training material to ensure that every customer has the opportunity to fully-capitalize on the investment they’ve made in the software.”

Nick Martin
Founder and CEO

Each training course provides a step-by-step guide to developing a real-world design using the unique, unified design capabilities of Altium Designer. Key features of the software are explained and reinforced through practical exercises. By following the course, engineers will quickly gain the skills necessary to use Altium Designer to develop a PCB Design or an FPGA-based embedded system.

Altium Designer training courses represent a sound investment that creates the opportunity for increased productivity and improved project quality within a company. The instructor-led training courses from which these manuals have been derived are conducted by Altium experts on a practical face-to-face basis using the systems and hardware needed to maximize the effectiveness of the learning experience. Held in major centers on a regular basis, Altium Designer training courses are the best path to taking full advantage of Altium’s revolutionary unified electronic development system.

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Altium Designer Training for Schematic Capture and PCB Editing
(Board Implementation Training Manual)

Cover Version 1.01 December, 2006 205KB
Table of Contents Version 1.01 December, 2006 85KB
Module 1 – Environment and Editor Basics Version 1.01 December, 2006 4,160KB
Module 2 – Creating Components Version 1.01 December, 2006 1,795KB
Module 3 – Schematic Capture Version 1.01 December, 2006 2,749KB
Module 4 – PCB Layout Version 1.01 December, 2006 3,464KB

Altium Designer Training for FPGA, Software and Systems Development
(Embedded Intelligence Training Manual)

Cover Version 1.2 May, 2008 208KB
Module 5 – FPGA Design Basics Version 1.2 May, 2008 4,488KB
Module 6 – Designing Systems on FPGA's Version 1.2 May, 2008 6,746KB
Module 7 – FPGA to PCB Version 1.2 May, 2008 4,932KB

 

Training Exercises

The following files are self-extracting archives of the training files required to complete the FPGA and PCB training exercises. Extract them into the examples directory of your Altium Designer installation – typically C:\Program Files\Altium Designer\Examples

FPGA Training Exercises exe 2,559KB
PCB Training Exercises exe 1,495KB

 

 

For a selection of training videos please see our Training Videos.
For other product documentation please see the Learning Guides section.