Thursday, 11 February 2010

Refactoring new life into your designs

There are many situations where you want to revise a design to use newer technology, improve a portion of a circuit, modify its functionality or simply extend its life.

Altium Designer provides the ability to quickly and easily convert a section of a schematic into a new hierarchical block that maintains existing connectivity. We call this "refactoring" – a phrase from the software world, but it applies just as well to hardware design.

Watch the video, where I'll show you this neat trick, and where you will want to apply it in your own design flow.

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