Computer-aided design from the developers of the legendary P-CAD , providing tremendous opportunity for the development of electronic devices. The program is mostly designed for professionals than hobbyists.
The software package includes all Altium Designer required set of tools for creating, editing and editing work on the basis of electrical and programmable integrated circuits. Schema editor enables you to work with projects of any size and complexity, converting them into simple sub-blocks. Digital-to-analog simulation takes into account almost all the real parameters and provides the designer a lot of different tests, including analyzes of transients, frequency, noise transfer functions, Fourier method Monte-Carlo, with the change of temperature. Realization of the circuit level checked and eliminated various impedances and cross-reflection. PCB Editor includes unique program for automatic (program Statistical Placer, Cluster Placer) and interactive component placement. Topological tracer Situs uses fully customizable algorithm for solving PCB layout of high-density installation elements. It can operate in non-orthogonal directions and independent choice of layers.Constantly updated library of more than 90 software programs store thousands of components. Many of them are models of seats, IBIS and SPICE-model, as well as 3D-model. Each of them can create a program individually with minimal time by entering information about the component.
With support for DirectX redistribution of the load between the CPU and graphics card, which greatly accelerated the work with polygons and multilayer boards. There is the possibility of developing a three-dimensional printed circuit board in the form of import / export data in the mechanical CAD (SolidEdge, SolidWorks, AutoCAD, ProEngineer). Altium Designer supports almost all existing output file formats: DXF, Gerber, NC Drill, ODB + +, VHDL, IPC-D-356 and many others. Built-in wizard for importing projects converts library circuits and boards of systems OrCAD, PCAD, Allegro PCB, PADs, DxDesigner work in Altium Designer, regardless of the encoding (binary or ASCII). A distinctive feature of the development environment is a cross-cutting development integrity at different stages of design. In other words, changes made at any level of development will be reflected in all project phases. The program was created by Australian company Altium, which in 2008 announced the completion of work on the P-CAD and suggested instead a program Protel, being developed since 2000. In 2006 it was renamed in Protel Altium Designer. Despite the fact that the central office is located in Sydney, it has branches in 22 countries. Interface design environment is simple and straightforward, any command can be run through many menus and one of the options you can always find through "Help". The Internet has a huge number of books and guidelines in Russian by Altium Designer. On the Internet there is anecdotal localization for Altium Designer, but usually on older versions, or not a complete translation.
Altium Designer is designed to run on 32 - or 64-bit operating systems Windows 2000 / XP / Vista / 7/8.
Distribution of the program: Shareware (fee required) from $ 49 per month
Official site Altium Designer: http://www.altium.com
