Altium 365 is the electronics product design platform that unites PCB design, MCAD, data management, and teamwork.
Features
PCB Design
Design, share, and manufacture, all in the same space with nothing extra to install or configure. Connect to the platform directly from Altium Designer without changing how you already design electronics. Altium 365 requires no additional licenses, and comes included with your Subscription plan.
Natively Integrated with Altium Designer Altium 365 is a cloud platform that works in conjunction and is tightly integrated within Altium Designer. You don’t have to install Altium 365 or change the way you already work. Get started in a few clicks to add a new layer of capabilities to your trusted design process. Altium 365 is built on top of over 35 years of Altium electronics design expertise and helps you to meet today’s engineering challenges.
Free Access for Non-ECAD Users Add project stakeholders from any domain to your Altium 365 environment at no additional cost. You can have as many users as you want. There’s no need to obtain Viewer licenses for Altium Designer. All of your collaborators and partners can access, review and comment on design files shared with them directly from a web browser on any device.
Design Review and Sharing on Web
Deliver higher quality products to market faster than your competitors with transparent design reviews and sharing. Share the real-time state of projects with team members, manufacturers, and even customers to review and mark up your designs without ever leaving your design space. Anyone with internet access can view, search, cross probe, and comment on your project from a browser, with no additional Altium Designer licenses required.
Asynchronous Design Review With Altium 365, project stakeholders always have access to the latest version of the design. Everyone can review and leave feedback at their own time and pace.
Granular Access Control You are always in control of who can do what with your PCB project. Granular access options allow you to control who can view and edit projects and restrict who can download and reshare design files.With several sharing modes, you can provide real-time visibility to live projects or create static snapshots of a design at a specific point in time.
Web-Based Sharing Whether you work in a large team, as an independent contractor, or anything in between, you never design PCBs in isolation. Altium 365 renders your design files in the web browser. All of your project stakeholders, from mechanical and software teams to management and procurement, can view, measure, search, cross probe, and comment on your design via the web browser without having to purchase and learn an ECAD tool. Share your projects with as many people as you need at no additional cost.
Interactive Commenting With interactive commenting, you never lose context and time. You can attach comments to an entire document or a specific object, visually highlight the problem area directly in the design, and tag people to quickly resolve issues, all without leaving your design environment. Comments document the collaboration and review process. Everyone in the project team can access and respond to them via Altium Designer or their web browser.
Export Comments With Altium 365, you can export comments to a PDF along with screenshots of the original state. Comments containing review notes and approvals can be used for record-keeping and audit purposes.
Tasks (PRO) The Tasks feature takes design collaboration in Altium 365 to the next level. With Tasks, you never lose important action items and easily obtain a high-level view of the state of your project, all without leaving your design environment.
Mechanical Design
Turn electronic and mechanical collaboration challenges into a competitive advantage by seamlessly working across domains without loss of intent or time. Bi-directional data transfer between your ECAD and MCAD tools makes it easy to collaborate with your mechanical team and share design revisions as they happen. Native integration with Inventor, SOLIDWORKS and PTC Creo is up to 10x faster than your typical error-prone data exchange methods.
Bi-directional ECAD-MCAD Design Collaboration Share design revisions with your electrical team to ensure the board fits right the first time. Keep your mechanical constraints a priority throughout the collaboration process. Avoid error-prone file exchange between tools: quickly push and pull changes between Altium Designer and your mechanical CAD.
Advanced Copper Geometry in MCAD (PRO) Get all the data needed to perform detailed mechanical checks or FEA with advanced geometry support for extruded copper and via transfers. With Altium MCAD CoDesigner the copper geometry is readable in MCAD and you can perform thermal, vibration, and other mechanical analyses.
ECAD-MCAD Rigid-Flex Synchronization (PRO) Altium MCAD CoDesigner enables the transfer of rigid-flex designs between the ECAD and MCAD domains. Their shape can be adjusted according to the shape of your enclosure in MCAD.
ECAD-MCAD Native Component Linkage (PRO) Components placed in the native MCAD tool are automatically synchronized with Altium 365 to simplify the design process and provide complete visibility of enclosure constraints.
MCAD-ECAD Enclosure Exchange (PRO) Send an enclosure from MCAD to ECAD seamlessly. PCBs often contain restrictions based on the mechanical enclosure, MCAD CoDesigner makes it easy to transfer a 3D enclosure model from your MCAD to Altium Designer.
Advanced History (PRO) The Altium MCAD CoDesigner panel displays the full history of accepted and rejected changes from both the electrical and mechanical sides. As soon as changes are applied or rejected by the electrical engineer, you will see a notification in your MCAD application.
Centralized Cloud Storage
Solve collaboration bottlenecks like design review confusion or lost design data with automatic backups and a centralized location for all of your design assets in the cloud. See exactly what changes were made, and by who, with a complete project history and Git-powered version control built specifically for electronics design. With powerful design reuse and lifecycle management tools, you’ll be able to take advantage of trusted design assets in future projects.
Cloud Storage and Version Control Store and access all of your design assets in one centralized location in the cloud. Lost changes or mixed up versions are a thing of the past. Know exactly who made changes to your data and when, so you can control every detail in your design process. With everyone on your team working and collaborating from the same centralized location, you can design and innovate with confidence.
Project History Know exactly who changed what, when, and why with a complete history of changes made to your design. A fully searchable project history helps you understand exacty what state your projects are in.
Configurable Lifecycle Management (PRO) Ensure the success of your design to manufacturing process by defining exactly what can be used, and when, by everyone on your team. Customizable lifecycle states give you total control over the production, prototype or obsolete states for components, templates, project releases and more. You’ll confidently release to manufacturing knowing that your team has been working with approved design items from day one.
Libraries and Supply Chain
Electronic components make up to 70% of your total product cost. Altium 365 allows you to quickly make informed and accurate decisions with real-time component data, including lifecycle status from IHS Markit®, and pricing and availability data from Octopart for millions of ready-to-use parts. With cloud component management, you can unify your once disconnected part libraries, making them accessible for your entire team in one secure location.
Cloud Components Keep your most valuable design data secure and accessible in one centralized location. Efficiently find and place the parts you need without interrupting your design focus. You’ll never worry about part availability for manufacturing with linked data for pricing and stock from your preferred suppliers.
Intelligent Supply Chain Allow your procurement team to quickly make alternative part choices based on pricing and availability for every component in your design. Control the manufacturing parts associated with the components in your design, so your procurement team will always have accurate and up-to-date information to work with.
Managed Components (PRO) Confidently ship your design outputs to manufacturing knowing that the components in your BOM are up-to-date, in an approved life-cycle state and available from suppliers. Through Where-Used, know exactly what changes have been made to your components, and how that impacts your designs during manufacturing. With Component Templates, simplify the creation of new parts in your managed libraries.
Octopart Library Content Accelerate your design process with access to millions of ready-to-use components with rich parametric data right in Altium Designer. You’ll never have to worry about whether your components will be available for production with supply chain data available at your fingertips. You can stay focused on the details of your design process without having to spend hours manually creating components.
Library Health Dashboard (PRO) Quickly and easily know the health status of all your managed components from one centralized location in your design environment. Identify and resolve any issues related to supply chain risks, inaccurate component details, duplicate parts, or outdated models that could affect the manufacturability of your design.
Teamwork
Keep your team working together cohesively with complete control over how your projects are shared and managed. All of your design data is stored in a central location, so you can decide who sees what with configurable access rights and roles. When changes happen, whether that’s a comment or design update, you’ll know about them instantly with notifications delivered through Altium Designer, Altium 365, or email.
Role and Group Management (PRO) Save time managing permissions and sharing projects by organizing your team members into customizable roles and groups. Designs or Workspaces can easily be shared with an entire group or specific role without having to edit permissions individually.
Support for Single Sign-on (PRO) Allow your team members to quickly and securely access their design tools and platforms wherever they are working from. SSO can be set up and easily configured in your Altium Dashboard, with support for SCIM user and group identity management within your organization and across multiple domains. Additionally, SSO supports SAML to connect to external sign-on systems authorized by your company including Okta, OneLogin, and more.
Change Conflict Prevention Preserve the integrity of your design documents and components with the ability to lock their access while you edit them. Stay focused on the changes you need to make without worrying about other team members making edits.
Manufacturing
Eliminate costly and time-consuming miscommunications with manufacturing with version-controlled release packages that can be shared in a single click. Your manufacturing partner can view and comment on output data directly in a browser, without having to install any additional software. With all of your manufacturing files stored in one centralized location, you’ll have everything you need for a successful production run within easy reach.
Push to Manufacturing Save time and avoid any costly mistakes by sharing a version-controlled release package with your manufacturer in a single click. Fabrication and assembly files remain error-free with automated validation checks, including ERC and DRC. Manufacturers can view and comment on your output files from any browser without the need to install Altium Designer or pay for additional licenses.
Altium Subscription Plans
The functionality of the Altium 365 platform depends on the Altium Subscription Plan you have: Standard, Pro or Enterprise.
Altium Standard Subscription
It offers cloud-based data storage and sharing for PCB designers, including browser access, secure project sharing with colleagues, clients, subcontractors, a commenting system, version control, and project change tracking. It also includes a centralized component library with supplier information, user management, and more. Additionally, it provides:
All software updates for Altium Designer.
Access to the AltiumLive community, including the discussion forums.
Basic ECAD/MCAD integration.
Altium Pro Subscription
It offers comprehensive component and PCB design data management, with all the features of the Standard plan, and additionally provides configurable lifecycles for components and design data, "where-used" functionality for components, interfaces to external databases and IHS Markit, role and user group definition, conflict prevention, and more. It also includes:
All software updates for Altium Designer.
Priority access to Altium technical support.
Advanced ECAD/MCAD integration, including RigidFlex support in Solidworks CAD and component placement from the MCAD environment.
Altium Enterprise Subscription
It offers all the features of the Pro plan and additional tools for managing data, configurations, and processes at the organizational level. It includes integration with PLM, the ability to create multiple workspaces, and more. It also provides:
All software updates for Altium Designer.
Priority access to Altium technical support.
Advanced ECAD/MCAD integration for Siemens NX.
Creation of lifecycles with approvals.
Altium Designer
Altium Designer is a unified electronic design environment that combines all design tools into a single application. The software includes a schematic editor, PCB editor with advanced routing capabilities, Spice and signal integrity analysis tools, ECAD/MCAD integration tools, and library management, project data management, and CAM output tools. Detailed descriptions of individual features are provided in the program's specifications.
Features
Design Faster by Reusing Your Best Solutions
Reduce costs in your development process and guarantee the launch of a device from your first iteration with design reuse solutions in Altium Designer.
Accelerate Your Design Work Simplify designs and save valuable engineering time by eliminating repetitive design tasks that occur in almost every project. Altium Designer offers a variety of solutions to support design reuse including reuse blocks and snippets.
Apply Proven Design Reuse Solutions In One Click Turn the functional blocks of your existing designs into reusable elements quickly and easily. A built-in version control system and lifecycles let you track changes and use only verified designs.
Make Reusable Content Available to Everyone On Your Team Increase the efficiency of your entire team by allowing engineers to save and reuse their work. All design reuse content can be stored in a single Workspace that’s accessible to all design participants.
Variant Manager
Meet the demands of a globalized market that requires unique versions of your PCBs
Define Different Functionality for One Design Create designs with different functionality on the same board using project variants. The new Variant Manager focuses on the functionalities of your PCB as a whole instead of individual parts. By defining a group of components in the Variant Manager, you can launch a whole line of devices with different characteristics and satisfy the needs of a wide range of users.
Easily Create and Manage Variants The Variant Manager provides modern and centralized management of project variants in one place. Creating new variants and managing the composition of your devices is easier than ever.
Keep Your Variant Data Synchronized Design variants are up-to-date and in sync throughout the entire design process including schematics, PCBs, BOMs, Draftsman documents and output documentation. A clear representation of variants at every stage of your design makes it easier to understand the composition of each product.
Manufacturer Part Search
Reduce design time by eliminating your component creation proces
Choose Ready-to-Use Components in Your Design Tool Select components for your device directly in Altium Designer. There’s no need to search for parts with third-party services – everything you need is available right in your design software.
Access a Variety of Components From One Panel Get a huge library of components that are verified by IHS Markit® data. From the simplest resistors, capacitors, and inductors to highly complex ICs, components in the Manufacturer Part Search all come from a single source of truth.
Place the Parts You Need and Immediately Start Designing Select a component in the Manufacturer Part Search panel and start using it in your project right away. There are no intermediate steps required to get a part into your design.
Layer Stackup Design
Manage More Than Your PCB Layer Stack
Fully Control Your Stackup Control and manage all the parameters of a PCB layer stack at any stage of your design from one location. Materials, number of layers, the distance between adjacent layers, and overall thickness of your PCB can all be defined from the Layer Stack Manager.
Define Custom Layer Stacks for Your Designs Implement any kind of layer stack for both rigid and rigid-flex PCBs without having to limit your ideas. You can also take advantage of ready-to-use stacks that are available from most PCB manufacturers.
Connect Stack Data With Electrophysical Parameters for Routing Elements Create and edit the layer stack of your PCB in the Layer Stack Manager, and the electrical characteristics of the routing are automatically updated in the PCB editor. New parameter values are also available in your stack manager as soon as you make any changes.
Intuitive Multi-Board System Design
The easiest way to create complex designs and error-free system interconnections
Design Multi-Board Systems With an Intuitive Approach Spend more time creating complex designs and less time learning how to reflect multiple boards in your design tools. With the same design approach and editors used for single-board designs, Altium Designer empowers designers of all levels to intuitively create interconnections between multiple boards.
Easily Ensure Accurate Assembly Enclosure Fit Eliminate the challenge of ensuring the form and fit of multiple boards in an enclosure. The multi-board assembly editor allows separate boards to be rotated, aligned and plugged into each other.
Effortlessly Synchronize Design Changes Update data in your multi-board project with the latest design changes in a few clicks. Altium Designer’s unified environment enables straightforward identification and synchronization of every change in individual PCBs and the overall multi-board system design.
Unparalleled Schematic Capture
Easily capture schematics of any complexity
Everything You Need to Design Schematics Spend more time creating amazing designs, and less time figuring out how to reflect your ideas in the schematics. The Altium Designer schematic editor is intuitive and user friendly for every designer. Everything you need – hierarchical designs, design reuse, simulation, and more – is within easy reach.
Full Control of Design Changes Between Schematic and Layout With Altium Designer, your schematic and PCB design are dynamically linked. This helps prevent manufacturing headaches by ensuring changes are reflected across all of your design files. Changes can be pushed bi-directionally in a few simple clicks. And we use an ECO process for updating content, so you have complete visibility into what changes are made.
Supply Chain Intelligence
Access critical supply chain intelligence as you design
Supply Chain Intelligence That’s Always Available to You, Across All Phases of Design Finally, you have component data presented in a way that is truly useful. Easily select components that meet your needs and never get caught off guard with an unavailable or obsolete part.
Select the Right Part Every Time with Accurate, Real-time Availability as You Work Robust, real-time supply information fueled by powerful BOM tools and integrations with Octopart and IHS Markit databases run within the design experience. High-accuracy data aggregated from over 300 distributors and over a billion parts, offers a new level of confidence in part selection. Part Insights Experience can also suggest alternatives to help you make informed decisions as you design.
Design as You Always Have, Part Insights Experience Is on and Ready to Guide Your Part Selection Part Insights Experience features blend seamlessly into your design environment so that you always have real-time supply chain insights within the design experience. There’s nothing new to learn, and there are no new tools to install. Part Insights Experience is always there and ready to assist.
Real-Time BOM Management with ActiveBOM
Manage components, suppliers, and sourcing data right in Altium Designer
Always Know Your Part Availability, Cost, and Sources View your BOM cost and part availability all in one place. Altium Designer connects you to hundreds of global suppliers with data from Octopart® and IHS Markit so you’ll always have the latest price, availability, and lifecycle information.
Plan for Uncertainty with Alternative Part Choices Keep your project on schedule and always have a backup plan for manufacturing by adding alternative part choices in your ActiveBOM. You can easily replace parts in your schematic with alternative selections in a single click.
Produce Error Free Boms with Automated Verification ActiveBOM runs a comprehensive set of checks to automatically verify your specifications, find duplicate parameters and designators, identify parts without suppliers, and much more. Issues are displayed directly on your BOM for easy identification and resolution, with the ability to set the priority level for any problems.
Best in Class Interactive Routing
Perform fast, high-quality routing for any electronics projects
Powerful Rules-Based Routing As your product's demands increase, so does the need for a powerful routing engine that can handle complex routing topologies. With our rules-based routing engine, you can easily meet these demands and achieve the results you need. Every aspect of your design is controlled with an intuitive constraints editor that allows you to easily make edits as you work.
Routing Tools That Work the Way You Do Easy-to-use hotkeys, shortcuts, and an intuitive menu structure make routing a breeze. Whether you need to switch layers, push, hug, length tune, or cycle via styles, you have complete control to do your best routing work.
Professional PCB Drawings in Minutes
The only software you need for PCB design and documentation
Produce Comprehensive Documentation in Your Design Environment With a Draftsman Document, you can create documentation right next to your design. An intuitive interface provides everything you need to create precise, in-depth fabrication, assembly, and drill drawings right in your design environment.
Skip Time-Consuming Documentation Updates Eliminate the stress of redoing documentation when your design changes. Now you can update your designs with a single click! Production drawings are directly linked to your design data, allowing you to update your documentation quickly and easily.
Get Documentation Done Faster Than Ever Create documentation quickly with dedicated drawing tools and properties that live within your design parameters. You can even define document templates to generate drawings that meet your requirements and company standards.
Certainty for Every Decision with SPICE Simulation
Design, validate, and verify even the most advanced schematics without leaving your design environment
Measure Board Performance without Interrupting Design Flow Easily measure board functionality and performance without leaving your design environment. Altium Designer provides a comprehensive suite of analysis tools that cover circuit performance, signal integrity, and DC power systems. Easily perform circuit simulations and test your ideas as you create your design. Altium Designer supports analog PSpice, LTspice, and xSpice in digital formats.
Quickly Set Up and Run Simulations Spend less time preparing simulations and more time analyzing results. Run simulations directly from your schematics, and eliminate the need to test your design by moving from one EDA application to another. Altium Designer uses an advanced algorithm for mathematical calculations and a guided setup that reduces simulation times. You can even reuse simulation parameters after design changes for quicker analysis.
High-Speed PCB Design
Simple solutions to high-speed design challenges
Improve Signal Timing Altium Designer will let you easily evaluate the impact of design decisions on overall signal performance. Our powerful routing length tuning tools allow you to effortlessly align groups of high-speed transmission lines at any time. Additionally, management and control tools ensure optimal results.
Reduce Signal Noise When routing high-speed signals, problems can arise from layer stackup design, signal noise, EMI, and reflections. The highly intuitive Altium Designer layer stack manager and routing engine is built to handle these issues, so you can easily optimize routing for single transmission lines and differential pairs to avoid crosstalk and electromagnetic interference.
Maintain Signal Integrity When routing high-speed PCBs, designers must identify and address signal integrity issues throughout their design. Critical tasks such as PCB structure design, material selection, and impedance calculations can be performed right within Altium Designer, without the need for complex formulas and external software.
Licensing
Perpetual License
For companies that want license ownership:
Pay once and use a license indefinitely
First year of Subscription (new versions, updates, A365 access etc.) included in price
Cheaper yearly maintenance
Available as Standard and Professional version
Technical support
Term-Based License
The most popular choice for Altium Designer users:
Use it for a specified period, min 12 months
Perfect for individual (occasional) projects
Access to new versions, updates, A365 etc without any additional costs
Cheaper start in PCB design world
Available as Standard and Professional version
Technical support
Altium Subscription
Altium Designer software is provided with a subscription that includes access to all updates and new versions of the program, technical support, as well as discounts on training and other special offers for subscribers.
Perpetual licenses for Altium Designer typically come with a one-year subscription. Upon request and for an additional fee, the subscription can be extended for a longer period, such as two or three years. Afterwards, it can be renewed (continued or reinstated) for another year or longer.
Active Subscription
Having an active subscription provides access to the following benefits:
Updates and enhancements to the current version of the software
New versions of the software released annually
Priority technical support provided by Computer Controls and Altium
Discounts on additional licenses, training, and other products from the company's portfolio
Access to the Altium 365 platform, available in Standard, Pro, and Enterprise variants.
Continuing an existing Altium Subscription is the most cost-effective way to access the latest Altium design solutions. Renewing an expired subscription or upgrading from older versions of the software is significantly more expensive than the cumulative subscription fees for subsequent years.
Altium 365
The world's only cloud-based platform that supports PCB design and project data collaboration. Seamlessly accessible from Altium Designer or any internet-connected device. Free for Altium Subscription holders. Click the button for a detailed description.
PDN Analyzer
PDN (Power Distribution Network) Analyzer is an extension available for Altium Designer that enables DC/DC power integrity analysis of the power distribution network in a PCB project. The extension is based on the CST Analyzer. Leveraging the CST engine, the PDN Analyzer allows for easy identification of voltage drops and current overloads in DC power distribution networks directly within Altium Designer.
Altium Designer
Altium Designer is a unified electronic design environment that combines all design tools into a single application. The software includes a schematic editor, PCB editor with advanced routing capabilities, Spice and signal integrity analysis tools, ECAD/MCAD integration tools, and library management, project data management, and CAM output tools. Detailed descriptions of individual features are provided in the program's specifications.
Features
Design Faster by Reusing Your Best Solutions
Reduce costs in your development process and guarantee the launch of a device from your first iteration with design reuse solutions in Altium Designer.
Accelerate Your Design Work Simplify designs and save valuable engineering time by eliminating repetitive design tasks that occur in almost every project. Altium Designer offers a variety of solutions to support design reuse including reuse blocks and snippets.
Apply Proven Design Reuse Solutions In One Click Turn the functional blocks of your existing designs into reusable elements quickly and easily. A built-in version control system and lifecycles let you track changes and use only verified designs.
Make Reusable Content Available to Everyone On Your Team Increase the efficiency of your entire team by allowing engineers to save and reuse their work. All design reuse content can be stored in a single Workspace that’s accessible to all design participants.
Variant Manager
Meet the demands of a globalized market that requires unique versions of your PCBs
Define Different Functionality for One Design Create designs with different functionality on the same board using project variants. The new Variant Manager focuses on the functionalities of your PCB as a whole instead of individual parts. By defining a group of components in the Variant Manager, you can launch a whole line of devices with different characteristics and satisfy the needs of a wide range of users.
Easily Create and Manage Variants The Variant Manager provides modern and centralized management of project variants in one place. Creating new variants and managing the composition of your devices is easier than ever.
Keep Your Variant Data Synchronized Design variants are up-to-date and in sync throughout the entire design process including schematics, PCBs, BOMs, Draftsman documents and output documentation. A clear representation of variants at every stage of your design makes it easier to understand the composition of each product.
Manufacturer Part Search
Reduce design time by eliminating your component creation proces
Choose Ready-to-Use Components in Your Design Tool Select components for your device directly in Altium Designer. There’s no need to search for parts with third-party services – everything you need is available right in your design software.
Access a Variety of Components From One Panel Get a huge library of components that are verified by IHS Markit® data. From the simplest resistors, capacitors, and inductors to highly complex ICs, components in the Manufacturer Part Search all come from a single source of truth.
Place the Parts You Need and Immediately Start Designing Select a component in the Manufacturer Part Search panel and start using it in your project right away. There are no intermediate steps required to get a part into your design.
Layer Stackup Design
Manage More Than Your PCB Layer Stack
Fully Control Your Stackup Control and manage all the parameters of a PCB layer stack at any stage of your design from one location. Materials, number of layers, the distance between adjacent layers, and overall thickness of your PCB can all be defined from the Layer Stack Manager.
Define Custom Layer Stacks for Your Designs Implement any kind of layer stack for both rigid and rigid-flex PCBs without having to limit your ideas. You can also take advantage of ready-to-use stacks that are available from most PCB manufacturers.
Connect Stack Data With Electrophysical Parameters for Routing Elements Create and edit the layer stack of your PCB in the Layer Stack Manager, and the electrical characteristics of the routing are automatically updated in the PCB editor. New parameter values are also available in your stack manager as soon as you make any changes.
Intuitive Multi-Board System Design
The easiest way to create complex designs and error-free system interconnections
Design Multi-Board Systems With an Intuitive Approach Spend more time creating complex designs and less time learning how to reflect multiple boards in your design tools. With the same design approach and editors used for single-board designs, Altium Designer empowers designers of all levels to intuitively create interconnections between multiple boards.
Easily Ensure Accurate Assembly Enclosure Fit Eliminate the challenge of ensuring the form and fit of multiple boards in an enclosure. The multi-board assembly editor allows separate boards to be rotated, aligned and plugged into each other.
Effortlessly Synchronize Design Changes Update data in your multi-board project with the latest design changes in a few clicks. Altium Designer’s unified environment enables straightforward identification and synchronization of every change in individual PCBs and the overall multi-board system design.
Unparalleled Schematic Capture
Easily capture schematics of any complexity
Everything You Need to Design Schematics Spend more time creating amazing designs, and less time figuring out how to reflect your ideas in the schematics. The Altium Designer schematic editor is intuitive and user friendly for every designer. Everything you need – hierarchical designs, design reuse, simulation, and more – is within easy reach.
Full Control of Design Changes Between Schematic and Layout With Altium Designer, your schematic and PCB design are dynamically linked. This helps prevent manufacturing headaches by ensuring changes are reflected across all of your design files. Changes can be pushed bi-directionally in a few simple clicks. And we use an ECO process for updating content, so you have complete visibility into what changes are made.
Supply Chain Intelligence
Access critical supply chain intelligence as you design
Supply Chain Intelligence That’s Always Available to You, Across All Phases of Design Finally, you have component data presented in a way that is truly useful. Easily select components that meet your needs and never get caught off guard with an unavailable or obsolete part.
Select the Right Part Every Time with Accurate, Real-time Availability as You Work Robust, real-time supply information fueled by powerful BOM tools and integrations with Octopart and IHS Markit databases run within the design experience. High-accuracy data aggregated from over 300 distributors and over a billion parts, offers a new level of confidence in part selection. Part Insights Experience can also suggest alternatives to help you make informed decisions as you design.
Design as You Always Have, Part Insights Experience Is on and Ready to Guide Your Part Selection Part Insights Experience features blend seamlessly into your design environment so that you always have real-time supply chain insights within the design experience. There’s nothing new to learn, and there are no new tools to install. Part Insights Experience is always there and ready to assist.
Real-Time BOM Management with ActiveBOM
Manage components, suppliers, and sourcing data right in Altium Designer
Always Know Your Part Availability, Cost, and Sources View your BOM cost and part availability all in one place. Altium Designer connects you to hundreds of global suppliers with data from Octopart® and IHS Markit so you’ll always have the latest price, availability, and lifecycle information.
Plan for Uncertainty with Alternative Part Choices Keep your project on schedule and always have a backup plan for manufacturing by adding alternative part choices in your ActiveBOM. You can easily replace parts in your schematic with alternative selections in a single click.
Produce Error Free Boms with Automated Verification ActiveBOM runs a comprehensive set of checks to automatically verify your specifications, find duplicate parameters and designators, identify parts without suppliers, and much more. Issues are displayed directly on your BOM for easy identification and resolution, with the ability to set the priority level for any problems.
Best in Class Interactive Routing
Perform fast, high-quality routing for any electronics projects
Powerful Rules-Based Routing As your product's demands increase, so does the need for a powerful routing engine that can handle complex routing topologies. With our rules-based routing engine, you can easily meet these demands and achieve the results you need. Every aspect of your design is controlled with an intuitive constraints editor that allows you to easily make edits as you work.
Routing Tools That Work the Way You Do Easy-to-use hotkeys, shortcuts, and an intuitive menu structure make routing a breeze. Whether you need to switch layers, push, hug, length tune, or cycle via styles, you have complete control to do your best routing work.
Professional PCB Drawings in Minutes
The only software you need for PCB design and documentation
Produce Comprehensive Documentation in Your Design Environment With a Draftsman Document, you can create documentation right next to your design. An intuitive interface provides everything you need to create precise, in-depth fabrication, assembly, and drill drawings right in your design environment.
Skip Time-Consuming Documentation Updates Eliminate the stress of redoing documentation when your design changes. Now you can update your designs with a single click! Production drawings are directly linked to your design data, allowing you to update your documentation quickly and easily.
Get Documentation Done Faster Than Ever Create documentation quickly with dedicated drawing tools and properties that live within your design parameters. You can even define document templates to generate drawings that meet your requirements and company standards.
Certainty for Every Decision with SPICE Simulation
Design, validate, and verify even the most advanced schematics without leaving your design environment
Measure Board Performance without Interrupting Design Flow Easily measure board functionality and performance without leaving your design environment. Altium Designer provides a comprehensive suite of analysis tools that cover circuit performance, signal integrity, and DC power systems. Easily perform circuit simulations and test your ideas as you create your design. Altium Designer supports analog PSpice, LTspice, and xSpice in digital formats.
Quickly Set Up and Run Simulations Spend less time preparing simulations and more time analyzing results. Run simulations directly from your schematics, and eliminate the need to test your design by moving from one EDA application to another. Altium Designer uses an advanced algorithm for mathematical calculations and a guided setup that reduces simulation times. You can even reuse simulation parameters after design changes for quicker analysis.
High-Speed PCB Design
Simple solutions to high-speed design challenges
Improve Signal Timing Altium Designer will let you easily evaluate the impact of design decisions on overall signal performance. Our powerful routing length tuning tools allow you to effortlessly align groups of high-speed transmission lines at any time. Additionally, management and control tools ensure optimal results.
Reduce Signal Noise When routing high-speed signals, problems can arise from layer stackup design, signal noise, EMI, and reflections. The highly intuitive Altium Designer layer stack manager and routing engine is built to handle these issues, so you can easily optimize routing for single transmission lines and differential pairs to avoid crosstalk and electromagnetic interference.
Maintain Signal Integrity When routing high-speed PCBs, designers must identify and address signal integrity issues throughout their design. Critical tasks such as PCB structure design, material selection, and impedance calculations can be performed right within Altium Designer, without the need for complex formulas and external software.
Licensing
Perpetual License
For companies that want license ownership:
Pay once and use a license indefinitely
First year of Subscription (new versions, updates, A365 access etc.) included in price
Cheaper yearly maintenance
Available as Standard and Professional version
Technical support
Term-Based License
The most popular choice for Altium Designer users:
Use it for a specified period, min 12 months
Perfect for individual (occasional) projects
Access to new versions, updates, A365 etc without any additional costs
Cheaper start in PCB design world
Available as Standard and Professional version
Technical support
Altium Subscription
Altium Designer software is provided with a subscription that includes access to all updates and new versions of the program, technical support, as well as discounts on training and other special offers for subscribers.
Perpetual licenses for Altium Designer typically come with a one-year subscription. Upon request and for an additional fee, the subscription can be extended for a longer period, such as two or three years. Afterwards, it can be renewed (continued or reinstated) for another year or longer.
Active Subscription
Having an active subscription provides access to the following benefits:
Updates and enhancements to the current version of the software
New versions of the software released annually
Priority technical support provided by Computer Controls and Altium
Discounts on additional licenses, training, and other products from the company's portfolio
Access to the Altium 365 platform, available in Standard, Pro, and Enterprise variants.
Continuing an existing Altium Subscription is the most cost-effective way to access the latest Altium design solutions. Renewing an expired subscription or upgrading from older versions of the software is significantly more expensive than the cumulative subscription fees for subsequent years.
Altium 365
The world's only cloud-based platform that supports PCB design and project data collaboration. Seamlessly accessible from Altium Designer or any internet-connected device. Free for Altium Subscription holders. Click the button for a detailed description.
PDN Analyzer
PDN (Power Distribution Network) Analyzer is an extension available for Altium Designer that enables DC/DC power integrity analysis of the power distribution network in a PCB project. The extension is based on the CST Analyzer. Leveraging the CST engine, the PDN Analyzer allows for easy identification of voltage drops and current overloads in DC power distribution networks directly within Altium Designer.