Learn PCB Layout

If you would like to learn more, have a look at our website here: https://www.fedevel.com/academy/onlin...   After this course, you will know how to design your own boards in Altium Designer. A switching power supply design is used as an example to demonstrate the whole process of designing a board. You can follow all the steps based on the video, repeat them and then design your own boards.  This course is perfect for beginners and anyone starting with Altium Designer. Ideal for companies with fresh hires or young engineers. You will get a lot of useful tips about designing a switching power supply and using Altium Designer.  Why switching power supply? They are used on almost every board!

This video helps you to visualize what is happening on your board - especially important for designing very high speed interfaces.

Simple way to copy placement between components or cloning / replicating placement of component blocks in PCB.

About different way of thinking when doing PCB Layout. Do not think about voltages and currents, think about transferring energy.

Component placement & routing in Altium Designer

There is difference in selecting objects when starting at top left vs top right. I didn’t know about this for a long time. Hope you find this useful.

Going through Saturn PCB Calculator – which is free and useful software for engineers. I use the software a lot to calculate impedance, maximum current for tracks / VIAs and sometimes to check possible crosstalk.