Friday, July 30, 2021

Thursday, July 15, 2021

USB2.0 Tips - Spayed Connectors

Controlled Impedance on 2 Layer boards / 2 layer board with bottom plane - Altium Discussion Forums

See Don's Recommendations

Spayed USB Connector Molex 54819-0519 

If you are using any discrete EMI suppression components connected to the USB leads then replacing them with an all-in-one solution such as the 4-ball BGA USB 2.0 filter NXP IP3319CX6,135 will improve your results.  This is the one that I use.

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Wednesday, June 16, 2021

About Project Physical Documents and All SCH Documents

In the Project Outjob there are options (Project Physical Documents or All SCH Documents) to generate Schematics.

'Project Physical Documents' will show Not-Fitted Variants and final reference designators for reused sheets in hierarchical projects.  

'All SCH Documents' prints the document as seen it in the Schematic Editor tab.
'All SCH Documents' will NOT display the Variant (red X) Not-Fitted parts.

Sheet Numbering Issues and Workarounds

'Project Physical Documents' will generate schematics with sheet numbers ordered by document name and will show the red X hash for the variant. 

Example:

ADC.SchDoc  (Sheet 1)
BAT.SchDoc   (Sheet 2)
CAN.SchDoc  (Sheet 3)


'All SCH Documents'  will generate schematics with sheet numbers ordered by sheet numbers assigned using Tools > Annotation > Number Schematic Sheets . . .

Again 'All SCH Documents' will NOT show the red X hash for variants.

Work around for displaying Red X Variants with expected sheet numbers.

Prefix the SchDoc sheets with numbered names in the preferred order.

Example:

01_CAN.SchDoc  (Sheet 1)
02_BAT.SchDoc   (Sheet 2)
03_ADC.SchDoc  (Sheet 3)

Workaround Caveats:

Adding another New SchDoc sheet to a project will require renaming sheets if the New.SchDoc is to be inserted between existing sheets.

Example: Insert New.SchDoc

01_CAN.SchDoc  (Sheet 1)
02_New.SchDoc  (Sheet 2)
03_BAT.SchDoc   (Sheet 3)
04_ADC.SchDoc  (Sheet 4)

Adding another New SchDoc sheet to a project will NOT require renaming sheets if the New.SchDoc is Appended to the existing sheets. (last sheet).

Example:

01_CAN.SchDoc  (Sheet 1)
02_BAT.SchDoc   (Sheet 2)
03_ADC.SchDoc  (Sheet 3)
04_New.SchDoc  (Sheet 4)


Related Online References:


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Wednesday, May 19, 2021

Component Unions That Won't Break - Bug Fix

Select All Component > Make Union > Break All

Thank you Olivier

Sunday, May 16, 2021

A365 - Managed Components - User Options

All > Right Click on Headings > Apply Column Visibility to Child Categories

click on image to view - Panels > Components > All > Right Click




Example. . .

Make Value Parameter Visible when Placing Parts - Panels > Explorer









Clear Cache

To Clear the locally Cached Managed Libraries on your machine.

Preferences > Data Management > Servers > Known Servers > Clear Cache

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