r/Altium

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Hi,

I’m currently studying Electronic and Telecommunication Engineering, and I recently completed all the courses available on the Altium website and obtained the related certificates.

I’ve realized that PCB design is the career path I truly want to pursue, so I would like to ask you a few questions:

• How is it to work with companies in Silicon Valley as a European engineer?
• Are salaries in the PCB design field generally good?
• After obtaining the Altium certificates, would you recommend pursuing other certifications? If yes, which ones? Or would it be better to focus mainly on gaining more practical experience and building projects?
• what are the most important adds on to know in Altium?

Thank you very much for your time.

“Hi Claude, connect to my Altium MCP and run a full DFM check on my PCB.”

Then Claude reviewed the board and generated engineering feedback directly from the PCB data.

This feels like a glimpse into where AI-assisted PCB engineering is heading.

Obviously, AI results still need engineer verification before manufacturing, but the potential for automated design review and DFM analysis..

…is honestly pretty exciting.

Curious what PCB engineers think about AI-assisted DFM workflows inside tools like Altium.

Would you trust AI to review your PCB designs?

or Rooms? or just a sheet dedicated to the EMC shielded area? I've seen just polygons used to communicate "doghouse" or "tin can" or "shielded", was trying to move towards something more formalized. Dashed box with EMC shield seems to work as then you can have an impedance blanket inside of that. Others have suggested put it on a sheet by itself and add freeform text. To be clear, I'm interested in communicating the design intent in the schematic, much like one would use a Chassis GND symbol, not wait for layout.

Fun little project I am working on. How about an Altium Designer themed connect the dots (components) game? PCB Layout is pretty much a game. This would just be a way to kick back, relax and sharpen your skill. What are your thoughts on what I should add or is there something already like this?

https://preview.redd.it/g198xck6fkzg1.png?width=940&format=png&auto=webp&s=f00a763c20a270db5d14bbf50de4a3c4e0e3c69a

Hi,
My team is responsible for creating a design that consists of top and bottom parts - both parts are connected via a dedicated connector. The idea is to provide modular solution.
Something like PC motherboard as the bottom part and some RAM like board as the top part.

Rationale

For my taste, it should be much easier to track and see what is connected to what (connector has more than 200 pins) if both schematics would be readable from a perspective of a single merged-like drawing/assembly then further analysis should be much easier (no more having to check one project against another and jumping across different tabs/views).
It's especially useful for board bring-up activities when one has to look where signals lead from one board to another.

Problem

When I talked with HW engineers (I'm embedded software engineer myself), they told me Altium does not allow to create a multi-board design from 2 separate projects (that is the default way we do things).

AI chats claim it's possible but they still hallucinate quite often so I can't really trust them much on this one :D

Question

Do you know if such thing is possible?
If not, then do you know the alternative solution to such a problem? Maybe for it to be possible a change on the project creation phase is required (can't be changed if done any other way) or something.

For me, this adds quite a lot of value not only in what I mentioned above, but in terms of schematic/design validation and finding possible errors like incorrect signal routing and etc. I hope what I wrote makes sense as I'm not HW engineer myself, so some terminology may be incorrect - for that I'm sorry in advance

Just a funny thing i found while looking (unsuccessfully) for fisher connector

https://preview.redd.it/iacd0yvloazg1.png?width=1201&format=png&auto=webp&s=775b6ac0cfb7aa4a685b781d04b72a6d84cb086a

I guess you can add edible nuts to your PCBs now