Altium Designer is the world's first and only unified electronic product development system that allows engineers to take a design from concept to completion within a single application. This, combined with modern design data management capabilities allows Altium Designer to transcend traditional tool boundaries, opening up new design possibilities that allow more intelligent electronic products to be created faster than ever before.
With this software we can unify the design process of electronic design from schematic to 3D design for your PCB. It allows you to design in new ways, and design things that haven�t even been thought of yet.
The '09 release of Altium Designer brings significant new and enhanced features to unify the design process, helping you create a real return on your innovation. It's the next phase in our commitment to update our solution every six months, and to continuallly introduce the features you need to create next-generation designs. Not only will you deliver more innovation in less time, but you can also explore design possibilities with a freedom unmatched by any other design system. The Winter 09 release focuses on streamlining design flows, simplifying data management, enabling rapid prototyping and concept exploration, and promoting better team collaboration - all intended to help you get your product to market faster.
Plug-n-Play Software Platform Builder
The Software Platform is a layer of software assembled in the Software Platform Builder from a range of provided components. It allows applications to exploit the hardware through a standardized set of services, such as storage services and network services. The Software Platform is easy to assemble, and provides a powerful range of functionality to your application code with just a few clicks of the mouse.
Field Instrument Dashboard using FPGA-based soft instruments
FPGA-based soft instruments are a powerful way of embedding debug tools inside FPGAs. With the '08 release we extended this to allow custom instruments to be created and programmed into FPGAs for any purpose. With '09 we are extending this even further, and providing a customized Instrument Dashboard specifically designed to allow viewing of custom controls.
Powerful new Interactive Routing features
Interactive routing is the single most time-consuming activity for board designers. The '09 release includes a range of enhancements to increase the user experience and productivity in this area.
Design Release Management
Managing the process of releasing a design for prototype or production is a key aspect of the product development process and an important part of the overall enterprise data management function. The '09 release provides the first formal modeling of this concept within Altium Designer, as well as a list of enhancements aimed at increasing the release process efficiency.
Live Links to Supplier Data
Suppliers' data is now readily available through web services. As a result, the integration of the available live data within the design process (at the library design level, during the design, and at design release time) becomes possible. This feature allows you to search suppliers' databases (for example Digi-Key) from within Altium Designer, and link library parts to matching supplier items. Using this link, the supplier data relative to linked parts can be retrieved at any time during the design process or at design release time, in a Bill Of Materials.
Full Stackup Definition available for vias
As manufacturing technology improves and allows higher trace density, it's become increasingly important to allow land sizes to be set independently for each signal layer. It's now possible in Altium Designer '09 to define via stack-ups that have varying sizes of round via shapes and on any of the signal layers specifically for this design scenario.
Real-time Manufacturing Rule Checking
New rules have been added at the PCB layout stage to improve overall system productivity. A range of constraints can now be checked in real-time during the design process and before the fabrication of files, helping you avoid unnecessary design respins and getting to market faster.
Performance and efficiency upgrade to PCB graphics system
A significant effort has been put into re-engineering the DirectX graphics engine for PCB environment in the Altium Designer '09 release. This has resulted in greatly improved performance with lower memory overhead and enabled some significant new features.
Cadstar Importer
The CADSTAR importer has been added to the Altium Designer Winter 09 release to assist users translating CADSTAR design and library files to Altium Designer format.
untuk routing ada tambahan fitur yang memudahkan seperti Multi trace routing, Push, Hug and Push, Walkaround..
dengan software ini kita bisa membuat bentuk 3D dari pcb dengan komponen2nya:
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In ALTIUM WINTER 2009, the 3-D PCB features have been improved with faster real-time 3-D design that will gives designers a more realistic three dimensional views and helps designers make decisions about placement and clearance of components more accurate.
This feature is also compatible with CAD simulation software to make more accurate cashing for PCB.
dari sini juga bisa diimpor ke software CAD lain untuk memudahkan proses pengemasan..
26th May 2012
Altium Designer Winter 2009, New Generation of Protel (Electronic Design Software)
