Altium Designer 14

Altium Designer is the industry’s only electronics design system with a native 3D PCB engine backed by a unified design data model. Designers are presented with a complete and holistic picture of their electronics design, with real-time supply chain information, design costs and cost targets, live electrical and drafting rules checking, real-time PCB design constraint reporting and real-time views of the circuit board in 3D. Excellent visibility into the complete data model give the designer all the information needed to make good design decisions, on time. The design is synchronized between different domains. Schematics are tightly synchronized with the state of the PCB, FPGA pins. Signal definitions are synchronized with nets on the board, memory and port allocations in the embedded software platform can be synchronized to the hardware design.

Board Design Altium Designer combines design capture, PCB layout, FPGA design, embedded software development and manufacturing files support in one unified application. Its single design database eliminates data translation and synchronization issues.

Flexible library management including support for database and Vault driven libraries. Full hierarchical and multi-channel design entry with design reuse, and variant support. Logical and graphical comparison of different revisions in both schematic and PCB. Spice 3f5 compatible mixed signal simulation with support for popular pSpice extensions. pre- and post-layout signal integrity analysis. Advanced interactive routing incl. differential pair support, length tuning, impedance controlled routing. Native 3D Board Design with real time 3D collision check. Full 3D support for rigid-flex designs and automated linking and updating to, and from, mechanical CAD models. Managed PCB layout collaboration, difference checking and change resolution. Sharable Output Job file definitions for consistent, automated documentation and manufacturing files generation.

Smart Data Management With Altium Designer’s data management capabilities you can automatically version control all design files and outputs for complete change and version traceability. Create a secure snapshot of the entire design project each time a release is made. This includes: version control system support, release and lifecycle management, management of repeatable output generation, design tool preferences and document templates. Design Content Access the stream of electronics design IP from our Content Development Centers including components, reference designs, and design templates. Our library of over 140,000 ready-to-use, high quality components not only include schematic symbol and pcb layout footprints, but also 3D models and supply chain information such as price and availability. Using Altium Designer’s Vault acquisition tools, items from the Altium Content Vault can be imported to your own local Vault server and automatically modified to suit your organization’s presentation styles, standard PCB layer set and item numbering standards.

Soft Design Altium Designer’s Soft Design capabilities provide the ultimate flexibility making it easy to move functionality off the board and into the programmable domain and provides a truly FPGA vendor-independent development environment. Highlights are: Vendor independent, No HDL required, VHDL / Verliog Support, Top Down Design of complete Embedded Systems, C-based FPGA design capabilities, Software platform builder, virtual instruments for in design tests.

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Key Highlights of Altium Designer 14 Altium Designer 14 delivers a set of new board level design features and enhancements drawn from some of our most popular customer requests. Of these, the most groundbreaking technology update for Altium Designer has been in its native 3D PCB design engine.

The ability to define multiple, complex layer stacks in a single design. With different Enhanced Layer Stack Manager stack ups used in different regions of the PCB.

An effective system for designing flex and rigid flex PCBs. Ability to define and Support for Flex and Rigid Flex PCB characterize multiple PCB folding lines in a design. Full 3D, folded and unfolded Technology clearance design rule checking.

Embedding components within a PCB can improve reliability, increase performance, Support for Embedded Components and provide significant space and weight savings.

Routing differential pairs now supports automated and guided width and gap Differential Routing Improvements changes, allowing consistent odd mode impedance while maintaining ease of use and productivity.

Automated stitching tools that work in a given area striking the balance between Stitching within a User-Define Area time consuming hand crafted via stitching and the blunt approach of flood filling an entire layout with vias.

Importer for CadSoft® EAGLE™ (Easily Applicable Graphical Layout Editor) design CadSoft EAGLE Importer files and libraries (*.sch, *.brd, *.lbr).

Content Cart: Content Selectively batch acquire, migrate and automatically convert vault data from one Acquisition Tools vault to another, while maintaining links to the original source items.

Support for Release and Lifecycle An audit trail enhancement, designers can add notes to Vault items during release Change Notes or changes of lifecycle state.

Centralized Environment Ensures a design team is using consistent templates and schematic drawing styles, Configuration Management and producing output files according to company standards.

With the opening up of the DXP Platform, Extensions for Altium Designer allow 3rd Altium Designer Extensions parties to develop additional features and functionality for Altium products.

Licensing information Altium Designer 14 is available with the following license options: Altium Designer 14 This license provides users with full custom board design and manufacturing capabilities. It also has complete front-end engineering design and verification system for both board-level and programmable logic design and full 3D PCB design and editing capabilities.

Altium Designer 14 SE This is the System Engineering version that provides users with complete front-end schematic design and design capture for both board-level and programmable logic design. It includes analog/digital simulation, verification and Embedded-System-on-FPGA implementation.

For more information, please contact Altium Americas Tel: 1-800-544-4186 Email: [email protected]

About Altium Altium Limited (ASX:ALU) creates electronics design software. Altium’s unified electronics design environment links all aspects of electronics product design in a single application that is priced as affordable as possible. This enables electronics designers to innovate, harness the latest devices and technologies, manage their projects across broad design ‘ecosystems’, and create connected, intelligent designs. Founded in 1985, Altium has offices in San Diego, Sydney, Karlsruhe, Shanghai, Tokyo, Kiev, with value added resellers worldwide. For more information, visit www.altium.com. You can also follow and engage with Altium via Facebook, Twitter and YouTube.