PCB design with Altium Designer

Explore filters in Altium Designer to selectively select components, wires, and other objects using the properties panel, toggle options, and both left-to-right and right-to-left selection rectangles.

Create a professional schematic in Altium Designer by building a battery-powered circuit, adding a header and five-volt and ground ports, wires, capacitors with a 1206 footprint, and color-coded nets.

Explore component properties in Altium designer by editing designators, comments, values, and footprints; annotate with numbers, position text, set 1206 package, and add voltage parameters for bill of material.

Create a schematic component by building a schematic library, add and name pins, set parameters for output voltage, and prepare a PCB footprint in a PCB library for the project.

Add schematic components to your pcb project in Altium Designer, update the pcb document, validate and execute changes, organize components with rooms and footprints, and customize designator fonts.

Learn practical tricks for placing components on pcb using altium designer, including managing net colors, top and bottom layer visibility, schematic to pcb cross probing, and precise placement.

Align pads and components in Altium Designer by using shift-select and T or C placement shortcuts, position the regulator and capacitor near the output, and align vertically and distribute horizontally.

Use interactive routing in Altium Designer to draw traces, adjust widths, and connect pads while applying design rules such as minimum 10 mil and maximum 30 mil.

Design the MCU power supply in Altium Designer by selecting compact 0402/0805 bypass capacitors (100 nF and 4.7 µF) and wiring Vdd and Vss to a 3.3 V rail.

Learn to configure boot options in Altium by wiring the boot zero pin and boot warm option bit to select boot from user flash, system memory, or embedded as.

Discover how to set up MCU debugging and programming in Altium by locating the debug port, mapping swd pins, and wiring a four-pin header for ground, vcc, and swd signals.

Learn the most important pcb design rules in Altium Designer, including short circuit rules, unconnected pins, routing topology, layer limits, and silk-to-silk clearance for reliable traces.

Learn to route crystals, bypass capacitors, and reset circuits in Altium Designer using interactive routing, layer management, and path alignment for clean, reliable microcontroller circuits.

Master room management in Altium Designer by using room actions to wrap around components, edit vertices, and slice rooms, then route over rooms and apply class rules with schematic updates.