Altium Designer provides electronic designers and engineers with a single, unified application that incorporates all the technologies and capabilities necessary for complete electronic product development. Altium Designer brings together hardware, software and programmable hardware development within a unified environment that allows all aspects of an electronic product to be designed and managed within a single system.

Take a look at An introduction to Altium Designer multimedia demonstration which provides you with an overview of the unified electronic product development environment of Altium Designer.

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Altium Designer video demonstrations

Board level 

New Interactive Length Tuning ****
Improved Polygon Placement and Editing ****
New and Improved – Embedded Board Array ****
New - Hole Size Editor ****
Improved - Preserve Arc Angles When Dragging ****
Improved - PCB Layer Tabs ****
New Signal Integrity examples ***
Improved Rounded Rectangular Pads ***
Hardware Accelerated Graphics Engine **
Copper Pour (polygon) Management System **
Slotted and square holes in PCB pads **
PCB layer sets **
Subnet jumpers **
Slice PCB tracks **
PCB selection tools **
Enhancements to support multi-track routing **
Differential pairs support *
Flip and edit board *
Smart paste *
Arrows on schematic *
In Place text editing *
Move by offset *
TrueType fonts *
Snippets & Unions *
Adding reports Directly on schematic sheets *
Footprint Manager *
Preserve track angles *
Integrated Database Component Libraries *
Board Insight *
Smart Interactive Routing *
Schematic-to-PCB capabilities
PCB design
PCB layer control
Multi-channel design
PCB copper plane support
Support for design assembly variants
Real-time, impedance-controlled routing
Design annotation support
Situs Autorouter
Component models
Embedded Panelization in the PCB editor
Global editing
Schematic editing
Schematic-level design verification
Familiar design paradigm and methodology
Schematic-to-PCB capabilities

Schematic

Smart Grid Tools ****
Schematic-to-PCB capabilities
Schematic editing
Schematic-level design verification

System-level

Library Identification ****
IPC Footprint Wizard ****
IPC Footprints Batch Generator ****
Variant Support ***
Improved Step Model Import Feature ***
Version-control libraries **
PSpice *
Shortcuts panel *
Mouse-Wheel layer changing *
Parametric Hierarchical Design *
Knowledge Center *
Import wizard *
Project management features
Project-centric approach
Design environment
Import/export interfaces for mechanical CAD
Library editing
Library report generator
CAM output and editing capabilities
Component parameters
Documentation and printing control
Free Viewer Version
Windows clipboard support
Smart PDF
Help capabilities in Altium Designer
Localization for Foreign Languages
Interactive design implementation

Translators

Improved – PADS® Importer ****
OrCAD® and PADS® Designs and Libraries Importer **

FPGA

Third Party Vendors IP import wizard ****
Third Party Vendors Tools options ****
SDRAM support **
Lattice XP® support **
Altera® Nios® II support **
Enhanced JTAG device viewer *
Enhanced generic JTAG device support *
Unified FPGA-PCB design environment
FPGA development
Vendor independent solution
Vendor tool knowledge not required
Future proofed for newer devices

Embedded

Configurable Logic Analyzer *
Changing processors *
Hands-on design verification

**** New in Altium Designer 6.7
*** New in Altium Designer 6.6
** New in Altium Designer 6.3
* New in Altium Designer 6.0

Live web conferences

Our application engineers regularly conduct live web demonstrations in most major regions around the world. For information on upcoming web conferences and to register your place, visit the Web Conference pages.

Altium Designer demonstration video requirements:

- Macromedia Flash player 7 or greater
- Headphones or speakers
- Min. resolution 1280x1024
- Broadband connection