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Multichannel Design in Altium DesignerRainer Beerhalter, bgmbh medien und datenbanken@ Altium Live, Munich, Germany
Motivation
A fool with a toolis still a fool!
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Thomas Rösch, a friend, 1989
Agenda• short speaker introduction
• examples from presenter’s workbench
• what is Multichannel Design ?
• Live presentation of a simple Multichannel example
• Summary
• Q&A session
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Who am I?• Rainer Beerhalter, Dipl.-Phys.
• Founder and owner of BGMBH medien und datenbanken, a Germany based electronic design service company, in business since 1995
• Started electronic design in 1983 age 13: Commodore PET and C64
• I love electronics, I love challenges: since 1996 in LED display design for several companies
• System design first
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What my team does:
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• All PCBs designed with Altium Designer 18
• Resolution 5248 x 512 Pixel (20.5x2m)
• BOM: > 3 Mio.
Examples from my workbench
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Simple, 2 channels Complex, 16 channels
What is “Multichannel Design“?• Mission: Design reuse
• AD approach: reuse of schematic sheets
• Requires hierarchical design, i.e. function groups containing other function groups.
• More replication -> more benefit
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When using “Multichannel Design“?
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Recall our mission: Design re-use
• You need something to replicate / re-use
• Replicate structures not parts
• Think before doing -> systematic design
• Invest time, called learning curve
• Clarify your understanding of hierarchy, rooms, classes and designators
Minimum prerequisites:
Copy & Paste
Going LIVE in “Multichannel Design“?
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Live presentation using AD19 to create a 4-channel SFP interface PCB All schematics and PCBs presented available for download from:
Baking a Multichannel Design
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• Think
• Learn
• Structure your design
• Channels
• Rooms
• Classes
• Annotation
• Use buses
• Use harnesses
• Use short names
• Use board level annotation
• Boost design speed
• Earn money
• Reduce errors
• Increase SCH readability
Your space
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• Think
• Learn
Room for your participation