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Altium Designer Advanced Training allows you to deepen your schematic and PCB knowledge. This course will expand your skills in challenging topics such as design rule queries, differential pair routing, customized project templates and more.
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The Advanced course is for experienced users who want to enhance their skills and become power users.
Advanced course participants should have already taken the Altium Designer Essentials course, or they should have knowledge that is equivalent to someone who has taken this training (such as being able to create several simple designs in Altium Designer).
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Pre-Requisites: Atium Essentials Course or equivalent knowledge of Altium Designer’s basic functions.
Certification: Altium Designer Advanced Course Certification
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This 3-day Advanced training will help you become more productive in Altium Designer’s PCB layout environment.
Detailed documentation, data management topics, advanced routing and construction techniques will be explored.
Mastering high-speed design constructs like differential pair routing, length matching, and tuning will be introduced and reinforced.
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Our 3 day online courses are led by expert instructors who deliver hands-on training sessions. Up to 12 attendees can join on a first-come, first-served basis.
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Work training into your personal schedule. Our On-Demand Courses offer comprehensive video instructions, along with exercise instructions and a reference PDF with links to Altium’s online documentation
Private training is perfect for design teams and offers you the comfort of confidentiality of any designs and discussions covered during sessions. Private training is available to be delivered onsite or via online instruction.
The Advanced course is designed for experienced Altium Designer users who are looking to expand their knowledge and learn to use more complex Altium Designer features. Tackle the most difficult design challenges with Altium experts guiding you step-by-step through comprehensive exercises.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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/.
Learn from the best in the industry. Altium instructors are expert engineers with years of
PCB experience. They are up-to-date on the latest technology and features available with
Altium Designer. Their insights and real time feedback during the course is invaluable.
Altium's training can help you be an expert, improve your
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Over 75% of clients report they are likely or extremely likely to recommend Altium’s Instructor Led training to a friend.
Careers in PCB Design are Growing! According to 2021 survey results published in Printed Circuit Design & Fab (PCD&F) magazine, nearly 78% of the electronic design workforce is projected to retire in the next 15 years
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