Here is the link to Altium discussing the features of the Altium Designer software.
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Altium’s unified solution equips you with the tools you need to take full advantage of the latest design techniques and technologies. It provides this in a way that’s intuitive to use and does not require acquiring expensive additional expertise. For example, if you’re a board-level designer or embedded software developer, you can use your existing skills to create sophisticated systems based on FPGA-based embedded hardware. It’s never been easier to create innovative, next-generation products.
Key features
PCB design
Altium unifies the process of board-level design by providing a single application environment for capturing design data, verifying the performance of the circuit, and designing the PCB. The single system and single model of the design data redefines the way you can work by enabling real-time design synchronization, single-point data management and smooth design collaboration with all domains.
FPGA design
Today these devices have sufficient capacity to implement more than just some of the hardware in a product – they can be programmed to implement an entire digital system, including the processor, peripheral components and the interface logic. To do this the engineer needs a design environment that solves the system integration issues – where they can capture the hardware design, write the embedded software for the processor, and implement, test and debug both the hardware and software on the target FPGA.
3D PCB layout environment
Today's designs demand tools that make it easier to view your designs - some things are just easier to see and jump out at you when you see the real thing! Taking advantage of DirectX capabilities, PCB Visualization brings powerful new capabilities that allow you to customize and configure your design view for both 2D and 3D displays so that you can inspect and edit objects such as pads, via barrels, tented vias both on the surface and internally from a 3D perspective.
3D Mechanical enclosure checking
Altium Designer offers high levels of interaction with MCAD data. This means you can import, manipulate and check mechanical design elements against your PCB design directly. MCAD data files can be linked to, which maintains the latest file information within Altium Designer.
Version control
The basic approach to working with a version control system is to "update", or "check-out", the project files that you want to work on, from the repository, into a working folder. These can then be modified and saved, and when you decide it is appropriate, the updated files can be "committed", or "checked in" to the VCS's repository. Check-out and check-in is performed through a version control system interface, which Altium Designer has built into its Storage Manager panel and Projects panel.
Push button manufacturing release package
The design release process needs to be tightly managed in order to control the design source data at release time, and after the release. Altium Designer helps to control source data at release time and beyond by providing a clear vision of projects history, as well as their dependencies through releases. It provides the ability to identify the point in time at which the design was released, go back to this point and retrieve, modify and re-release the design with the correct dependencies.
Hierarchical project management
The starting point for every design created in Altium Designer is a project. An Altium Designer project is a set of design documents whose output defines a single implementation. For example, the schematics and PCB in a PCB project include the fileset required to manufacture a single printed circuit board, while the schematics and HDL in an FPGA project output the fileset required to program a single FPGA.
ECO with change history
Developing an electronic product in an environment like Altium Designer results in a large number of electronic files. These files are valuable, they are your company's IP (Intellectual Property), and must be stored and maintained in an appropriate way. Altium Designer includes a number of features to ensure that your files remain safe, are backed up, and older versions can be retrieved if necessary.
95,000 Library Components
Altium Designer delivers over 95,000 components out of the box. Not only are all parts IPC compliant, but it includes a table driven IPC footprint builder. Need pricing information? Altium Designer has Live Links with Digi-Key, Farnell and Newark to automatically populate your library with component information. Need 3D models, Altium Designer fully supports the STEP standard for 3D PCB layout and MCAD integration.
Instant FPGA Prototyping
Altium Designer is a complete FPGA design platform that supports Actel, Altera, Lattice and Xilinx. The award winning NanoBoard 3000 provides an instant prototyping platform that includes a Spartan 3AN or Altera Cyclone III FPGA, Ethernet, USB, PS/2, color TFT LCD panel, SVGA interface and much more. Also included is a royalty-free IP core library and software compilers for code development.
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