Saturday, December 22, 2012

Vault-Driven Electronics Design - English documentation - The Altium Wiki

Vault-Driven Electronics Design - English documentation - The Altium Wiki: " with key design and management practices, to fuel a high-quality, high-yield design flow  – empowering your design team to design with freedom in a highly-secure environment. A" 'via Blog this'

Saturday, December 15, 2012

Altium Gaining Market Share

Altium is Gaining Market Share

Recent surveys have Altium at ~ 39% of the market share.

Printed Circuit Design & Fab Magazine Online:

Wednesday, December 12, 2012

PCB - Differential Pairs

AD13 Differential Pair Rules defined in the PCB.


Add Class


Add, Delete or Edit Pairs


Select Positive and Negative Nets and Enter Name

Monday, December 10, 2012

Google Drive - SyncToy

I use Google Drive and SyncToy to keep files synchronized and backed up.

Google Drive gives me easy access to my files from anywhere via the internet.  You can also choose to share files or not to share files.  

Google Drive is great for synchronizing files between remotely located PCs, such as work and home or a workstation and mobile devices.

Google starts you off with 5 GB of free space and offers very affordable upgrades.

I use SyncToy for local drives and intranet backups.

For trouble free drag and drop file operation I recommend partitioning the C: drive. It is too easy to accidentally move files using drag and drop when both folders are in the C: drive. Creating a partition solves the copy vice move files problem.

Partition the C: Drive and Create X: Drive.



Create X:\Google Drive



Create SyncToy Folder Pair



Example: Set SyncToy Options



I like to exclude Altium History and Access Lock Files *.~*;*.ldb