ALTIUM TO-DO LIST

General

• Create more detailed page on installing/setting up Altium + accessing NER licenses + vault

• Revise electrical standards and migrate to Confluence

  • Would probably be best to eventually subdivide into separate pages

• Create confluence page on Altium Tips + Tricks

• Create confluence page on component speccing

  • Obviously impossible to cover everything, but I think giving pointers to recommended manufacturers for various component types, and how to use different distributors' search features would be valuable enough to justify making a page

• Create confluence page summarizing important resources (trace width calculators, octopart, preferred suppliers/PCB fabricators, Ultralibrarian/SnapEDA etc.)

• Plan fall semester Altium teaching sessions

• Create confluence page on using NER project template

  • Alternatively update the PCBs 101 page guide to use template

• Figure out how to auto-populate layer pairs

• Look into SolidWorks MCAD integration

  • Integration with PDM: https://www.altium.com/documentation/knowledge-base/altium-designer/solidworks-mcad-is-used-with-sw-pdm-product-data-management

• Add to guidelines clarification that components dont need to be fully built out until after schematic reviews

• Add default parameters to project creation tool? I think should be possible with pro…

Components

• Create confluence page explaining how to navigate/properly utilize the NER vault

• Create confluence page w/ a thorough component creation guide

• Overhaul footprint standards/documentation

• Need to add a guide for searching digikey

• MOSFET channel should be a disctionary

• Category for Coaxial (RF) Connectors?

• Symbol pins should be required to terminate to 100 mils grid

Schematics

• Create confluence page on schematics best practices/Style guide

• Parameters in schematic template should be cleared out to only what we use

Layout

• Update .RUL file

• Check why did MPU not OutJob successfully for Walter

• Update project template to a normal 1.6mm stack. Probably JLCPCBs

• Can we do file locking? Im still unclear if it’s available for cloud vault

• Add to project template our most common impedance profiles (50 Ohm single wire, 120 Ohm pair, any others?)

• {update project template with basic impedance profiles}

• Tear dropping

• Add _H and _L diff pair definition by default. Probs also need to update confluence page reffering to that

• Add notes template/legend on top sheet in template

• Can add layer stack templates in the tempaltes folder

• Are designators required?