Breaking down barriers since 1985

"Historically, the most advanced, state-of-the-art design tools have been prohibitively priced, with access being limited to engineers based within the few companies that could afford them. The Altium vision – unchanged since the company's inception – is to break down these barriers to innovation and technological advancement and provide every engineer and system designer with easy access to the best possible design tools. This is the driving force behind why our company was founded and is still the vision that guides our strategies today and into the future."

- Nick Martin, CEO, Altium

The background behind the future of electronics design.

Altium's vision

Today we expect devices to be connected, to offer features and functionality beyond the boundaries of the device itself, and to keep pace with our rapidly developing and changing environment. Altium believes that designers must approach design in a new way in order to meet the challenges of designing the next generation of electronics products. This demands that electronic product design be turned inside out. That functionality not be fixed at the hardware level, but remain completely in the programmable realm – to be programmed into a suitable hardware platform as dictated by particular, and often rapidly changing, circumstances.

Altium’s vision is to expand electronics design beyond its traditional horizons and to equip a new generation of designers with power to create the intelligent, connect devices we will all use in the future.

About Altium

Altium provides electronics design solutions that help designers create the next generation of electronic products. Altium’s solutions let designers focus on innovation, rather than the need to overcome barriers in design process. Altium’s solutions are easy to use and deploy, and enable the latest electronics technologies and devices to be harnessed to their full potential by all designers. Altium’s solutions are unique because they unify the separate processes of electronics design within a single electronics design environment, working off a single data model, which links all the aspects of electronics design into one process.

Altium's customers include Boeing, Bosch, Canon, Cochlear, CSIRO, Daimler Chrysler, Delphi, Fujitsu, Hewlett-Packard, IBM, Lockheed Martin, Motorola, NASA, National Semiconductor, NEC, Nokia, Philips, Sony, Siemens, Telstra and Toshiba - to name just a few!

Founded in 1985, Altium has headquarters in Sydney, Australia, sales offices in the United States, Europe, Japan, China, and resellers in all other major markets.