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Unlocking the future of physical hardware design

The unique characteristics of today’s electronic products are increasingly defined by the ‘soft’,
reprogrammable elements of the design. Read on to find out more ...

Smart tools for high speed design

Read how Altium Designer’s intelligent interactive routing system has been enhanced with the addition of a new interactive length tuning tool specifically for high-speed designs.

The need for speed - BMW Motorsports

BMW Motorsports uses Altium Designer in the development of a Lambda Controller to monitor air/fuel ratios in their high-performance touring car engines.

IN THE WORKSHOP

  • Increase your productivity with scripts
    Scripting provides a powerful method of increasing your capabilities and productivity. Scripts can be written in a number of languages, complete with sophisticated dialogs and debugged within Altium Designer.
  • Smart Grid tools – accelerate your component creation
    Component creation is a fundamental part of the design process and must be done accurately. Altium Designer’s Smart Grid tools can streamline this process, allowing you to copy data from a datasheet or spreadsheet and then intelligently map the copied data to Altium Designer object properties.

Creating electronic products that offer a genuinely competitive edge relies, in essence, on delivering designs that offer a distinct and recognizable advantage in the marketplace. In the past, the way components were physically placed and connected at the board level could provide a high degree of differentiation. Today, the increasing globalization of the industry and standardization of interfaces makes differentiation at the board level difficult to achieve and sustain... more


Mainstream board level design is becoming more sophisticated as designers struggle to harness the potential of the latest high-speed, densely-packaged components – notably the latest generation programmable devices. Design tools need to rise to the routing challenges this presents. Recognizing this, Altium has expanded its already powerful suite of interactive routing tools in Altium Designer 6 to include new features for high-speed design such as intelligent Interactive Net Length Tuning... more


The pace out of the racetrack is fast, but the speed of development is sensational. The goal: to be quicker than the rest. BMW Motorsports uses Altium Designer in the development of a Lambda Controller to monitor air/fuel ratios in their high-performance touring car engines.

“As development processes have become much more complex in recent years, Altium Designer helps us keep pace with the design of electronic products. This is key to our quest for enhanced details and innovative solutions in racing series. In the end, the technology we develop here at BMW Motorsports has benefits for all BMW drivers – whether on the streets or on the racetrack.”
Dr. Markus Krug
Manager Development Touring Car Sports, BMW Motorsport GmbH...
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Online Altium Designer Web Demonstrations

Book your seat today to see Altium Designer live and in action. Choose from the following topics:

  • Altium Designer Overview
  • Altium Designer Embedded Implementation Overview
  • Upgrading to Altium Designer 6

Web demos are presented by our own Altium Engineers in English, German and French. Attend a special Altium Designer 6 live web demonstration by either calling Altium on 0800-0-258-486 (D), 0800-295-958 (A), 0800-880-506 (CH) or by registering directly.

Upgrade to Altium Designer 6 today!

With over 800 new features and enhancements since its launch in 2005, there are many compelling productivity benefits why you should upgrade to Altium Designer 6 today.

We have created a video which demonstrates the "10 most compelling reasons to upgrade" from 2004 to Altium Designer 6

View the video to see why many of our customers have already made the move to Altium Designer 6.

Download Altium Designer 6.7
Already using Altium Designer 6 – to download the Altium Designer 6.7 update please visit the Altium SUPPORTcenter

Cyclone III support now available

Altium Designer now supports the new Altera Cyclone III FPGA device family from Altera Corporation. This move allows engineers to use the low-cost Cyclone III devices to rapidly and interactively develop electronics systems using the full power of Altium Designer’s unified design environment. Cyclone III support is available immediately and free for all Altium Designer 6 users with the Altium Designer 6.7 software update.

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0800-295-958 (A) and
0800-880-506 (CH)
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