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Top 10 reasons to move to Altium Designer now!
1. Get a single, cost-effective, fully-featured electronics design solution...
Altium Designer is the world’s first and only unified electronics
design system that lets you take a design from concept to
completion in a single, fully-featured application.
So what does that mean?
- You get all the technology you need right out of the box no hidden high-cost extras to purchase.
All the design capabilities, all the IP, all the design possibilities are yours.
- You don’t need to buy and integrate numerous expensive add-ons in order to make up a complete solution.
- You’re free to rapidly explore design concepts, new devices and technologies, move smoothly from concept to board
design and manufacture, and integrate design easily with your wider organisational systems.
That’s what you get when you get Altium Designer.
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2. Get the highest return on your investment...
To put it simply, Altium Designer delivers the highest ROI of
any electronics design software and we’re not exaggerating!
Every step in the design system lifecycle is made as easy as
possible so that you can focus on design innovation and
developing next generation electronic products, rather than
wasting time getting some combination of point tools and addons
talking to each other enough to do the job.
We lower your total costs of ownership right from the initial
software purchase, providing affordable solutions that are easy
to deploy on low-cost hardware infrastructure. We maximize
your ROI through a range of competitive and flexible upgrades,
software assurance, training and support programs that help you
get up, and stay up, to speed quickly and cost-effectively.
And, more than any other vendor, we have a proven track
record in continually investing in and delivering new technology,
with a major release every six months that extend your design
capabilities, keep you productive, and enable you to get the most
from your design tool investment.
So how’s that for ROI?
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3. Get unified…
Altium is forging new territory by unifying the different design
disciplines involved in electronics product development – the
design of the hardware, the programmable hardware and the
embedded software – and bringing these disciplines together in a
single ‘concept-to-manufacture’ development environment.
But why should you care?
For a start, you get a single unified model of your design
and design data. That means you can work more closely
withmechanical engineers, production engineers and software
developers to streamline the entire end-to-end electronics design
flow. You’ll not only save heaps of time, you’ll also be able to do
hardware/software/programmable hardware design in parallel and
reduce the time necessary to move from design to production.
This all translates into easier design concept exploration, faster
development cycles and better design flows, saving you time and
money. Now that’s something we can all use!
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4. Get innovative…
Altium Designer changes the way you can create and develop
electronics products. You and all electronics engineers, designers
and developers will be able to harness the full potential of the
latest generation of programmable devices to create smarter
products in shorter time-frames.
Don’t have extensive FPGA design knowledge or HDL expertise?
No problem! Unlike conventional tools that treat the design
of electronics as a series of separate design processes, Altium
Designer unifies the design of the hardware, programmable
hardware and the development of the embedded software. This
enables you to design at a much higher-level of abstraction.
You can harness you existing design skills in new ways, ways
that leave you free to focus on concept exploration and adding
‘embedded intelligence’ into your applications to create more
innovative electronic products. With Altium Designer you can
focus on creating the critical functionality first. That leads to
more creative design solutions.
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5. Get into ‘soft’ design…
The key for remaining competitive and innovative in a global
business environment lies in effectively harnessing the greater
freedoms, flexibilities and cost reductions in electronic design
flows offered by programmable design technologies.
Altium Designer lets you easily move functionality off the PCB
and into the programmable hardware realm – all without the
need for extensive HDL knowledge or FPGA expertise. Whether
it’s your board-level designer, a system designer or an embedded
developer, you now have easy access to the benefits of ‘soft’
system design – benefits that are key to remaining innovative and
competitive in a fast-moving industry.
You’ll be able to easily explore design concepts without being
tied to a fixed hardware platform, and rapidly bring together
system hardware to enable you to get straight to developing
crucial ‘intelligence’ of your product. Only Altium Designer allows
you to harness the full potential of programmable devices as a
system development and implementation platform and create
next generation products faster than ever before.
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6. Get interactive with your design…
Using Altium Designer in conjunction with Altium’s NanoBoard
delivers a unique design experience unlike any electronics
development platform you have ever used before. We call it
‘LiveDesign’ – instant implementation, real-time communication
and ‘hands-on’ interaction between you and your design during
the development process.
Run real software on real hardware in real time, right from the
start of the design cycle! Whether you’re a board designer,
system engineer, FPGA designer or embedded software
developer, LiveDesign delivers compelling benefits to your work
flows and the way you approached design as a whole. Altium
Designer combined with a NanoBoard reconfigurable hardware
platform give you the ultimate innovation station.
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7. Get a next generation user interface…
Altium Designer offers an intuitive, consistent and easy-tomaster
user interface throughout the entire system. Unlike a
loosely-linked collection of point tools, Altium Designer has been
developed from the ground-up as a single unified solution. You
won’t need to wrestle with inconsistent learning procedures,
systems and shortcuts for different applications, so you’ll get up
to speed faster and design more efficiently.
You’ll also be designing in the world’s best and most advanced
design space thanks to Altium’s unique 3D PCB visualization
technology. For the first time, developers can work with stunning
3D perspectives of their board designs – see what you’re
developing as you’re designing it! This delivers a host of benefits
not possible with 2D static design environments, including the
ability to dynamically link the MCAD world with electronics
design, making true electro-mechanical co-design a reality.
Even if we do say so ourselves, it’s simply the best looking design
system on the planet!
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8. Get involved in an active and dynamic user community…
Altium Designer’s expanding customer-base is the most active
and innovative community in the electronic product development
industry. Just take a look at the high level of user-participation and
immediate support you will find in the Altium-hosted forums on
our website to see for yourself.
These forums feature active, regular participation by Altium’s
developers, application engineers and support staff. This highlevel
of interaction plus Altium’s extensive Beta program keeps the
support and engineering advancement of Altium Designer fully in
tune with those who actually use the system.
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9. Get ready for the next generation…
Altium Designer ‘future-proofs’ your organization by providing
you with the tools required take full advantage of the latest design
technologies and techniques, and is continually developed to
provide those you’ll need into the future.
Altium Designer supports the convergence of all electronics design
processes required to create today’s – and tomorrows – electronic
products. Regular software updates introduce features to support
new devices and technologies and ensures your design system is
always up-to-date and ready for you to develop next generation
electronic products.
We don’t just talk about new technologies. We deliver them!
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10. Just get it because it’s totally cool!
Let’s face it, engineers become engineers because they like
messing around with cool technology. Well indulge yourself! Once
you’ve experienced Altium Designer’s unified design environment
and the LiveDesign capabilities offered when you combine it
with Altium’s NanoBoard, it’ll change your whole view of design.
There is a degree of freedom, creativity and – dare we say it – fun
working with ‘soft’ hardware that can transform you into that
grinning kid with a hot soldering iron who’s just made his first
crystal radio. The ease with which you can move between concept
and circuit means that many of the ‘hard-wired’ constraints that
currently dictate the process can simply be abandoned. Not only
does it allow you to deliver more intelligent designs in less time,
it allows you to explore design concept and possibilities with a
freedom and ease that can’t be matched by other design systems.
Altium Designer – it’s why you became an engineer in the
first place!
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