Altium Tutorials
Team Phantom uses Altium Designer for our hardware work. Altium is where we design schematics and layout PCBs. For new members and others looking to get started with Altium, checkout our tutorial videos.
To create your altium live account, contact Jarod Krane, this will allow you to download the Altium software and get started with the Team Phantom license. The software can be downloaded here. Make sure you download a version that starts with 18.
Our tutorial will go through how to design a circuit and PCB that uses the 555 timer Integrated Circuit (IC) to flash an LED. You can think of it as the 'Hello World' of electronics, similar to blinky for microcontrollers.
The prototype can be seen here.
- Github Bootcamp - Learn how to add, commit, pull, push, branch, and use git bash
- Altium: Getting Started - Create a new project in Altium and track in its own repo branch
- Altium: Schematic Symbols - Create a new schematic library and part
- Altium: Footprints - Create a new pcb library and footprint
- Altium: Resistors - Creating resistor symbols and footprints
- Altium: Capacitors & LEDs - Creating capacitor symbols and footprints, practical considerations for capacitor selection
- Altium: Schematic - Designing the 555 timer schematic
- Altium: PCB - Starting the PCB, board dimensions
- Altium: Component placement - IC and passive component placement on PCB
- Altium: PCB routing - Routing all parts on the PCB
- Altium: Creating power planes - Laying out polygon pours for GND and power
- Altium: Silkscreen & mounting holes - Adding silkscreen & mounting holes to the board
- Altium: Manufacturing outputs - Generating gerbers, drill files, BOM & schematic PDF