Altium

Altium Designer – the industry’s only single ‘concept-to-manufacture’ electronic design solution – gives you an unmatched ability to design and build next generation electronic products.

It’s a new approach that streamlines design flows, simplifies data management, enables rapid prototyping, makes design concepts easy to explore, and promotes collaboration across all teams involved in bringing a product to market.

Altium Designer is the system for the next generation of electronics design.

• Why choose Altium Designer?
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Altium Designer enables you to:

• Streamline the entire product development process with a single unified design solution
  
  • Use a fully-featured, single solution to develop hardware, programmable hardware and software
  • Take designs from concept to manufacture within a single unified environment
  • Work with a single model of the design data, and a single design data storage system
  • Real time synchronization between schematic, PCB, FPGA and embedded design

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• Freely explore design concepts ‘on-the-fly’
  
  • Explore devices from different vendors with minimal design reengineering
  • Easily explore design concepts and options before committing to final hardware
  • Use IP from any source, without being restricted to vendor-specific ‘sticky IP’
  • Commit designs to hardware when you know what’s really needed

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• Rapidly prototype using a live, interactive hardware development system
  
  • Develop, explore and debug designs on real hardware, in real-time with ‘LiveDesign'
  • Harness the full potential of reprogrammable devices with soft-centric design
  • Change software and hardware with equal ease and on-the-fly
  • Fully develop and debug designs on the actual hardware before committing to prototype

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• Smooth the path from design to board layout and manufacture
  
  • Single model of the design allows for one-touch generation of manufacturing data
  • Single centralized data source simplifies version control and component management
  • Visualize and interact with board designs in real-time 3D, within the PCB editor
  • Seamless collaboration with MCAD designers and other engineering teams

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• Easily connect to wider company systems
  
  • Single access point for all design data simplifies links for data management systems
  • Plug-in capability and built-in interfaces for external data management
  • All involved in product development process access one design environment
  • Easy design collaboration between electronics design teams and the wider organization

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• Be equipped for the future with the latest design technologies
  
  • Use and expand existing skill sets while harnessing the latest devices and techniques
  • Make soft design and the creation of device intelligence the focus of design
  • Access new technology as soon as it’s available, though consistent and frequent updates
  • Easily migrate from other systems with advanced wizard-based design data importers

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• Be productive right ‘out-of-the-box’
  
  • All tools and technologies are in the box, including parts libraries, royalty-fee IP and more
  • No need to purchase costly add-ons to make a complete solution
  • Continually updated with latest devices and technologies – an average of 2.5 updates per working day
  • Comprehensive, free online training and direct access product support

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Learn more about Altium Designer:

	Features & licensing Discover the benefits Altium Designers’ extensive feature-set and flexible licensing options offer.		FAQs Got a question about Altium Designer? Find the answer here.
	Latest release Altium’s commitment to continuous product development delivers another feature-packed release.		For upgraders Don’t miss out on opportunities for innovation – find out all you need to know about upgrading today.
	Making the switch Thinking about making the move to Altium? Here’s everything you need for a seamless transition.		Altium Software Assurance Maximize your ROI with automatic access to the latest product version upgrades and enhancements.
	System requirements Find out what system configuration best suits Altium Designer.		Altium Designer downloads Browse a range of downloads including the Altium Instrument Dashboard for FPGA-based systems, the Altium Designer Viewer License, output generators and more.