Altium Designer is an integrated computer - aided design ( CAD ) system of electronic equipment developed by the Australian company Altium . Previously, the same company developed CAD software P-CAD , which has gained extraordinary popularity among Russian electronics developers. In 2008, Altium announced the termination of the supply of P-CAD software packages, and suggested that developers use the Altium Designer program, which appeared in 2000 and was originally called Protel . In 2006 , the software product was rebranded and received its current name, the latest version of which is called Altium Designer 19.
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| Type of | Electronic design automation |
| Developer | Altium |
| Written on | Delphi , C # , C ++ [1] |
| operating system | Microsoft Windows |
| First edition | 2005 |
| Latest version | 19 (December 14, 2018 ) |
| License | Proprietary |
| Site | altium.com/altium-designer/ |
Content
Description
Today Altium Designer is a system that allows you to implement projects of electronic means at the circuit or program code level with the subsequent transfer of information to the FPGA or PCB designer. A distinctive feature of the program is the design structure and end-to-end integrity of the development at different levels of design. In other words, changes in development at the board level can be instantly transferred to the FPGA or circuit level and vice versa. Also, as a priority, the developers of this program should note the integration of ECAD and MCAD systems. Now the development of a printed circuit board is possible in three-dimensional form with bi-directional transmission of information to mechanical CAD systems ( Solid Works , Pro / ENGINEER , NX , etc.)
This package consists of two products based on a single integrated DXP platform, the ability to work with one or another of them depends on the type of license purchased:
- Altium Designer Custom Board Front-End Design - FPGA Design, Circuit Design, and Modeling.
- Altium Designer Custom Board Implementation - Designing printed circuit boards and FPGAs.
The Altium Designer software package includes all the necessary tools for developing, editing and debugging projects based on electrical circuits and FPGAs. The circuit editor allows you to enter multi-hierarchical and multi-channel circuits of any complexity, as well as conduct mixed digital-analog modeling. The program libraries contain more than 90 thousand ready-made components, many of which have footprint models, SPICE and IBIS models , as well as three-dimensional models. Any of the above models can be created using the program’s internal tools.
The Altium Designer PCB Editor contains powerful tools for interactive component placement and wire routing, which, together with an intuitive and fully visualized system for setting design rules, simplify the development of electronics as much as possible. Tracing tools take into account all the requirements of modern development technologies, for example, when tracing differential pairs or high-frequency sections of boards. The program includes an automatic Situs tracer, which uses the most advanced algorithms for tracing printed conductors. The fundamental difference between the latest version of Altium Designer is the support of bi-directional work with mechanical parts and component models in the STEP format, which can be imported / exported from mechanical CAD systems. In order to improve 3D modeling functions for Altium Designer, in 2017 the C3D geometric core was licensed [2] .
Work on all parts of the project is carried out in a single control shell Design Explorer, which allows the developer to control the integrity of the project at all stages of design. Thus, changes made at any stage of development are automatically transferred to all related stages of the project. In addition to powerful development tools, Altium Designer has ample opportunities to import and export third-party design systems and supports almost all standard output file formats ( Gerber , ODB ++ , DXF , etc.). All developments in the form of circuits, boards and libraries developed in the latest versions of P-CAD are fully supported.
Publications
Notes
- ↑ https://habr.com/post/205974/
- ↑ isicad: Altium implements C3D Labs technology in CAD electronics . isicad.ru. Date of treatment January 25, 2018.
Links
Literature
- Sabunin A.E. Altium Designer. New solutions in the design of electronic devices . - M .: Solon-Press, 2009 .-- S. 432. - ISBN 978-5-91359-064-0 . Archived December 22, 2009 on Wayback Machine
- Sukhodolsky V.Yu. Altium Designer. Design of functional units of RES on printed circuit boards . - SPb. : BHV-Petersburg, 2010 .-- S. 480. - ISBN 978-5-9775-0542-0 .
- Goryachev N.V. Typical PCB design route and project structure in CAD electronics of ALTIUM DESIGN // Reliability and Quality - 2011: proceedings of the International Symposium: in 2 volumes / Ed. N.K. Yurkova .. - Penza: Publishing House of PSU, 2011. - P. 120—122 .