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Altium Designer

Altium Designer

Overview

What is Altium Designer?

Altium Designer is PCB design software for a variety of industries.

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Recent Reviews

Altium Designer Review

6 out of 10
March 13, 2024
Incentivized
We use Altium in our subsidiary to design less complex PCB for our customers. Having a common platform helps us with our productivity at …
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Mid-level User Review.

8 out of 10
March 08, 2024
Incentivized
I use Altium to design and verify electronic products from the starting concept all the way to the final manufacturable product. Altium …
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Would recommend

8 out of 10
March 07, 2024
Incentivized
PCB and schematic work. Most products are under NDA, they range from animal detection systems to automotive aftermarket, agricultural …
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A Solid ECAD Choice

7 out of 10
March 07, 2024
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We use Altium Designer as our core Electrical solution. Between design, management and storage of our design files Altium Designer is key. …
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Pricing

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Monthly

$355

On Premise
per month per seat

Single Payment

$4,235

On Premise
one-time fee per seat

Entry-level set up fee?

  • No setup fee
For the latest information on pricing, visithttps://www.altium.com/altium-designer

Offerings

  • Free Trial
  • Free/Freemium Version
  • Premium Consulting/Integration Services

Starting price (does not include set up fee)

  • $355 per month per seat
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Product Demos

Altium Designer Demonstration

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Product Details

What is Altium Designer?

Altium Designer is an end-to-end PCB design software for engineers and designers. Altium Designer aims to enable a unified design environment, uniting teams worldwide with every aspect of the PCB design process.

Altium Designer Features

  • Supported: PCB CoDesign
  • Supported: Constraint Manager
  • Supported: Manufacturer Part Search
  • Supported: Multi-Board System Design
  • Supported: Schematic Capture
  • Supported: Supply Chain Intelligence
  • Supported: ActiveBOM®: Displays BOM cost and part availability
  • Supported: Interactive Routing with a rules-based routing system

Altium Designer Screenshots

Screenshot of 3D Collision - Altium Designer's 3D PCB editor offers the ability to perform 3D collision testing as well as catching general component-to-component collisions. The user can position one component under another, or test if the loaded board fits correctly into the enclosure.Screenshot of ActiveBOM - A Bill of Materials management editor that brings BOM management tools together with Altium Designer's part information aggregation technologies, helping to manage the component selection challenge.Screenshot of PCB Layout - Altium Designer presents a unified data model to make circuit board design and layout easier. The user can design schematics, use schematic capture to create a new PCB, route printed circuit traces, and prepare for PCB assembly in the program. The PCB layout design features also make component placement and routing easier.Screenshot of Schematic with Properties Panel - The Interactive Properties panel for schematics includes several functional improvements as well as productivity enhancements. The layout focuses on efficiency, icons and graphical previews have been improved over previous versions, and there is now a smart parameters filter both for schematic lists and components.Screenshot of Routing Differential Pairs - Differential pair PCB routing is a design technique employed to create a balanced transmission system able to carry differential (equal and opposite) signals across a printed circuit board. Typically this differential routing will interface to an external differential transmission system, such as a connector and cable. Altium Designer ensures that differential pairs are coupled together whether entering or leaving a pad or just navigating around obstacles on a board.Screenshot of Cross Probe - Cross-probing allows users to jump between and select objects in both the logical schematic and physical layout domains.

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Altium Designer's new features

Altium Designer Integrations

  • XJTAG
  • PDN Analyzer
  • JTAG MAPS

Altium Designer Technical Details

Deployment TypesOn-premise
Operating SystemsWindows
Mobile ApplicationNo

Frequently Asked Questions

Altium Designer is PCB design software for a variety of industries.

Altium Designer starts at $355.

Autodesk Fusion 360, Siemens PADS, and KiCad EDA are common alternatives for Altium Designer.

Reviewers rate Usability highest, with a score of 6.7.

The most common users of Altium Designer are from Small Businesses (1-50 employees).
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Reviews and Ratings

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Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
We use Altium Designer to save us time during the design process. Previously, we had used a different tool that had much less reliability in it's error checking and generated less consistent manufacturing outputs. Altium Designer has helped us get to production with, on average, one less hardware revision than we had when using the other tool.
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
As an embedded design engineer, I follow the full cycle from design and simulation to layout, signal integrity, and producing data packs with the Draftsman tool. This allows end-to-end control of the design without handing it off to other departments. The 365 tools allow a great way of working with other teams and interfering with manufacturing around the world without the need for them to have the software installed. The package and features as a whole allow me, as a design engineer, to keep full track of the project and eliminate the need for a separate version control system.
Phil Landau | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 8 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
We have several engineers who use Altium Designer continuously. Some of us use other similar programs at home, but all (with the exception of one) think that Altium Designer is by for the best. We only used the schematic and PCB editors. Due to the cost of separate licenses of which we have three, a bottleneck sometimes happens when more than three people use Altium Designer simultaneously.
Score 8 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
We use Altium to design the schematic design of the original hardware. I share schematics with software team members so they can use it as a reference when writing firmware. After we generate a layout, we use Altium 365 to generate fabrication files and send them to PCB houses for quotes and timelines. I give mechanical engineers access to 3D files to generate housings and to make test fixtures with better accuracy. We looked into using the wire harness generation toolset, and so far, it is not mature enough for our use cases, but it might work for less complex designs.
Score 8 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
I use Altium to design and verify electronic products from the starting concept all the way to the final manufacturable product. Altium provides an incredibly powerful tool to help you create and verify your circuits at the highest standards. The 3D viewer in the PCB developer has been handy for me, allowing me to view my PCB design from a different perspective. Save me time by showing where my components will be situated in the final product.
March 07, 2024

Would recommend

Score 8 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
PCB and schematic work. Most products are under NDA, they range from animal detection systems to automotive aftermarket, agricultural drone accessories and industrial automation products. There are 2 of us who use it for drawing schematics, designing PCBs and then passing the designs over to mechanical engineers for designing enclosures etc.
March 07, 2024

A Solid ECAD Choice

Score 7 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
We use Altium Designer as our core Electrical solution. Between design, management and storage of our design files Altium Designer is key. We use Altium Designer for mid scale PCBA and harness design for our multi-board projects.
Score 8 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
We use Altium Designer to create turnkey electronic hardware for our customers. As a design services company, Altium Designer allows us to have a single program and cloud workflow to manage every aspect of our customers designs - securely and seamlessly from concept to delivery. We also use Altium Designer to manage component selection and changes.
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
We use the Altium Designer software to produce top quality PCBs for the aerospace industry. We find it works great for a large range of PCBs from 2 to 12 layers, from simple to complex. We rarely find issues with the software and updates are constantly coming out to provide new features as well as fix any bugs.
We've been happy with Altium Designer and look forward to the continued use of it in the years ahead.
Jose Perri | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
ALTIUM DESIGNER is the most appropriate tool for the design of electronic equipment, it covers all parts of the process, that is, from conceptual creation to mass production. We can use ALTIUM DESIGNER for the creation of electronic schematics and from there generate the PCB of components, finally, it allows us to generate a list of materials "BOM" for the acquisition of the electronic components.
February 26, 2024

Altium Designer Review

Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
I use Altium Designer to design PCBs and other electronic components and validate and iterate upon my team members' designs for my University's satellite design team. We are participating in the CSA's (Canadian Space Agency) CubeSat design challenge and won the competition last year. We are currently redesigning boards to make them space ready.
June 27, 2023

Altium

Score 8 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
We use it for our Electronics PCB development. We create our own electronics and Altium is used for creating the schematic capture and PCB Layout, as well as the production files.
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