Altium Designer customers who have active subscriptions can take advantage of all the features and upgrades included in the new Altium Designer 22 release, including:
- Parts Insight Experience, which proactively provides supply chain intelligence directly within the design experience
- Advanced board design capabilities that allow designers to easily create complex designs and quickly prepare them for fabrication
- Enhanced SPICE simulation tools enabled with Monte Carlo analysis to measure circuit quality with ease
- Real-time lifecycle management with Altium 365 that enables you to work from anywhere and with anyone
Altium’s new Parts Insight Experience delivers real-time supply chain intelligence directly in the design environment so that information about component specs and lifecycle is always available and accurate.
Robust supply information, supported by powerful BOM tools and integrations from Octopart and IHS Markit databases, aggregates data from over 300 distributors and over 1 billion parts, providing engineers access to available components and helps them to avoid designs with unavailable or obsolete parts.
This new experience ensures engineers are working with a healthy BOM throughout their design process by delivering production risk-alerts so that engineers can quickly identify risks across projects that use supply constrained or end-of-life components. As an added benefit, Part Insights Experience also suggests alternative parts so that engineers can be confident that they are working with available parts throughout their design experience.
Commenting Lawrence Romine, Vice President of Global Marketing, said, “Altium Designer 22 and Altium 365 work together to streamline the design process and ensure our engineers have the supply chain intelligence to complete their work in a single design environment.”
Engineers will be able to create complex designs and quickly prepare them for fabrication using Altium Designer 22’s advanced design capabilities, which include:
- PCB technology awareness modelling to optimise designs for the most complex boards
- Enhanced intelligent routing to reduce manual routing time
- Improved solder paste specifications to help avoid fabrication bottlenecks
- Circuit sensitivity analysis to understand circuit output characteristics
The release coincides with the launch of Altimade, a new Altium 365 application that significantly streamlines the printed circuit board design-to-manufacturing workflow.
Altimade enables customers to request an instant quote and place an order to produce their PCB assembly without ever leaving their design environment.
