Altium design software

Altium has added new project management and design data publishing capabilities to its unified electronic design solution that help electronics designers manage design projects.

Altium Designer is based on a single data model that lets designers synchronise data across all the electronics design stages, allowing changes in one domain to be reflected throughout the design, from schematic capture, PCB layout and FPGA design to embedded software development.

In addition, it enables designers to navigate all design data of all types within a project, manage design changes between document versions, and publish design data in all the forms necessary for manufacture, documentation, packaging and maintenance of the final design.

The latest release of Designer incorporates new ‘Design Insight’ features targeted at helping designers browse documents and design information across an entire project.

Intelligent and interactive pop-up document previews provide a fast and easy way to find and navigate to specific documents within a project, and to trace connectivity through multiple source files.

Version control support has been enhanced and streamlined to allow common operations such as file comparisons and updates to happen in the background.

A publishing feature enables the consolidation of selected documents into a single set targeted at a particular media type such as print or PDF. Using this feature, designers can publish the required information for each group in the most suitable form: electronic, web-based or hard copy.