In the top left quadrant-for individuals performing complex designs-sits Altium Designer. It’s affordable and intuitive, providing the capabilities necessary to capture a schematic, lay out boards, and send manufacturing data to a fabricator. In the bottom left column sits CircuitStudio, a package designed for the engineer who designs PCBs from time-to-time. With CircuitMaker, however, your IP is exposed to the entire community. At the bottom right sits cloud-based CircuitMaker, a free tool that provides access to reference designs and that promotes collaboration among the CircuitMaker community. Mirkazemi described Altium products as related to a four-quadrant graph with the y axis representing complexity and the x axis representing levels of collaboration. Altium Designer occupies the center of an effective strategy for IoT design, he said, with the Octopart and Ciiva acquisitions adding support for search and discovery and for connecting design to manufacturing. “The heart of the IoT is electronics,” Mirkazemi said, adding, however, that changes to current technologies will be needed to effectively produce an estimated 50 billion connected devices. Although Altium is ECAD-centric, the company works to facilitate communications with the MCAD and PLM worlds. Altium, he said, was first with realistic 3D visualization for rigid and flexible PCBs. Altium’s goal is to let you focus on what you care about-“designing really cool stuff.”Īltium CEO Aram Mirkazemi described his company as having built one of the first to build affordable PCB layout tools-specifically for Windows, as the Mac failed to gain traction in the engineering community.
Presenters emphasized that as you innovate in the age of IoT, you shouldn’t have to wrangle with the design process. Next up will be Atina, an ECAD package that adds collaborative tools to Altium Designer capabilities. They came to Boston Friday to describe products including the Altium Designer 17, CircuitStudio, and CircuitMaker ECAD products for PCB design as well as the Altium Vault data-management tool and PDN Analyzer (powered by CST) for power-delivery-network analysis.
Altium executives are hitting the road to demonstrate the company’s current products and lay out their roadmap to 2020.
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