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Why AllSpice Actions: Hardware DevOps in electronics design

Actions, Hardware Industry / By allspice.io team

Over the last 15 years, I’ve watched automation tools completely change how software teams develop and release products. The advent and adoption of continuous test and deployment tools, like Jenkins, Circle CI, and GitHub Actions have allowed software teams to quickly and confidently react to changing demands and wrangle increasingly complex system designs by enabling automated test infrastructure, deployment, and release.

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AllSpice guest episode on Macrofab Engineering podcast

Hardware Design, Hardware Development Resources, Hardware Engineering, Hardware Industry, Interviews, Revision Control / By allspice.io team

We sat down to talk to Macrofab Engineering Podcast hosts Parker Dillmann and Stephen Kraig. Macrofab is a PCB and Electronics Manufacturing platform.

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How to set up your Altium project on Git

Altium, Git, Hardware Development Resources, Hardware Industry, Revision Control / By allspice.io team

Need to organize schematic, PCB and supporting files? Here are some ways to do so more easily by setting up your Altium project on Git.

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Reviewing component changes and chip shortages

Hardware Design, Hardware Development Resources, Hardware Engineering, Hardware Industry / By allspice.io team

Over the last 6 months, the global semiconductor shortage has been consistently making news for the wave of resulting disruption across the hardware world. From automotive to consumer electronics, virtually every hardware industry has had to scramble to find component replacements ranging from sophisticated ICs to simple microcontrollers.

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9 of the best electrical engineering forums, and why

Electrical Engineering, Hardware Development Resources, Hardware Engineering, Hardware Industry / By allspice.io team

What are the best forums for electrical engineers, hardware engineers, and PCB Designers? We did some digging and asked members of the AllSpice team.

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Which Git clients work for hardware engineers (and how)

Git, Hardware Development Resources, Hardware Engineering, Hardware Industry, Revision Control / By allspice.io team

We live at the dawn of a golden age of hardware development. The tools being built are powerful, fast, and focused on saving money and time but not necessarily with an intuitive user interface. Git has a reputation for being clunky and severe, but everyone participating in the tool-building ecosystem has taken Git a long way from its command line only roots.

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Voices of hardware blog interview series.

Susan Kayesar of PCBflow – Siemens [Voices of hardware series]

Hardware Industry, Interviews, Voices of Hardware Interview Series / By allspice.io team

For our first edition of the series, we sat down with Susan Kayesar, Product Manager, PCBflow at Siemens, to discuss all things engineering.

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Assemblies best practices in Git for hardware

Best Practices, Git for Hardware, Hardware Development Resources, Hardware Industry, Revision Control / By allspice.io team

Most electronics designs are more complicated than a single PCBA. Very often, designs are compartmentalized into multiple interconnected PCBAs, wiring harnesses, enclosures, mechanical fasteners, labels, packaging, and anything else necessary to run the design.

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Generated files best practices in Git for hardware

Best Practices, Git for Hardware, Hardware Development Resources, Revision Control / By allspice.io team

One of the biggest differences between using Git for software vs Git for hardware is that software tends to use Git as source control whereas hardware tends to use Git as version control.

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AllSpice new design review creation process.

Design review basics in Git for hardware

Git for Hardware, Hardware Design, Hardware Development Resources, Hardware Engineering, Revision Control / By allspice.io team

Every hardware engineer is familiar with traditional design review. In the past, it made sense to gather a group of people in a room, staring at a projector screen, and manually walk through the schematics and PCB layout. Every person has a chance to voice their input and create action items.

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