Altium Designer 10.747

Altium Limited is an Australian based software company that provides PC-based electronics design software for engineers. Founded in 1985, Altium has headquarters in Sydney and sales offices in the United States, Europe, Japan, China, and resellers in all other major markets. The company was known as "Protel" until 2001.

Owerview

Altium Designer is an EDA software package for printed circuit board, FPGA and embedded software design, and associated library and release management automation.

Component management

Components are the atoms of electronics design, the fundamental building blocks. Drop the ball with components and the entire project comes to a halt.

With the ever-growing demands for newer, more interesting products, or products that make more creative use of components, along with the steady stream of new and interesting parts appearing on the market virtually every day; it can quickly be overwhelming trying to keep up...Much less building and maintaining a system that can keep on top of the engineering and supply chain intelligence that goes into the right part choice. And with easily 90% of the finished board cost wrapped up in your choice of components, the pressure to get it right has never been greater.

Enter Altium's Next Generation Component Management System - the framework you need to manage components at the engineering level, in the design, and across the design and release domains. It extends existing models of storing and managing ECAD component data to capture the engineering and business intelligence now needed to make real sense of the component management challenges engineers and designers face each and every day. This new system includes...