embedded world: Altium introduces ‘next generation’ component management
Altium has launched a new design vault based concept for managing component data at embedded world. According to the company, the 'unified component' model extends traditional design libraries to cover other design processes and provides the framework to manage components at the engineering level, in the design and across the design and release domains.
The new model represents the fourth generation of libraries from Altium Designer and is optimised to represent specific components in different design domains such as schematic capture, 2/3d pcb layout, simulation and signal Integrity. According to the company, it also facilitates specification of the desired physical components to offer a significant reduction in cost and time.
The system includes a 'where used' system to track components across any design, lifecycle management capability down to the level of components and individual component models, a new system for the live linking of component to the supply chain and a new component model to capture the intelligence behind part choices.
