Electronic components nowadays are trying to maximize the space when making a design, a prototype, and especially a finish product. This goes also with student making projects and hobbyist making stuffs. Heard about flexible printed circuit design? How about stack-up type of PCB? How much more a flexible stack-up type PCB? Isn't this great? Well here's what Altium offers you.
According to an article, Flex and Rigid-Flex Printed Circuit Design, "A rigid-flex is a flexible printed circuit is a pattern of conductors printed onto a flexible insulating film. Rigid-flex is the name given to a printed circuit that is a combination of both flexible circuit(s) and rigid circuit(s), as shown in the image above. This combination is ideal for exploiting the benefits of both flexible and rigid circuits – the rigid circuits can carry all or the bulk of the components, with the flexible sections acting as interconnections between the rigid sections."
Still, according to that same article that I found, there are about four types of Flex and Rigid-Flex Layer Stackup. These are Single Layer, Double Layer, Multi-layer, and Multi-layer Rigid-Flex.
So all of you out there, better consider and even re-consider using this marvelous design offered by ALTIUM. With the help of Altium Designer, virtually, anyone would be able to design his/her PCB layout in a more space conscious way. Anyways, the more your going to be space thrift, the more cost-effective your projects would be.
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