Building the physical platform

• Explore the electronic product development environment
• Board level design
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The printed circuit board connects together the discrete components, connectors and other hardware that form the physical platform of the design. With increasing component densities, faster signal speeds and transitions, and tighter manufacturing tolerances, successful board design today, more than ever, relies on design systems that unify design definition and physical layout.

In Altium Designer our proven strength in board-level system design has been unified at the platform level with support for programmable design within an FPGA environment. This provides a fully unified product development system that can be deployed across all elements of the electronic product design process.

Altium Designer unifies the process of board design by providing a single application environment for capturing design data, verifying the performance of the circuit, and designing the PCB.

Altium Designer's powerful rules-driven design, layout and editing environment gives you full control over all aspects of the physical implementation of your circuit.

Altium Designer’s schematic editor facilitates the capture of designs of any complexity by supporting a hierarchical approach to design.

Altium Designer preserves the hierarchy and functional partitioning of the design into the physical realm, making it easy to scope physical constraints to drive the layout and routing process.

Altium Designer supports high-speed design with targeted design rules, complete system-level support for managing differential signals, and integrated signal integrity analysis.

Altium Designer’s mixed-signal circuit simulation is a unified part of the capture process and is fully integrated with the schematic editing environment.