Altium has released Altium Designer 12, the latest evolution of the award winning unified electronics design solution.
With the new release, Altium Subscription users will further benefit from Altium’s software delivery model. Unlike previous new versions, Altium Designer 12 will not be a large and potentially disruptive software upgrade – it will be delivered as part of, and further solidify, Altium’s continuous update model. This means that new features and functionality, as well as improvements and bug fixes, can be rolled out instantly and directly to subscription users.
Altium’s powerful cloud-based infrastructure supports this platform for continuous updates to customers. The Plug-In Manager within Altium Designer gives users full control over which part of Altium Designer to install, and instant visibility into updates and installations.
Altium Designer 12 is comprised of the development work, continuous updates and system enhancements from the last 12 months. Some of the key features delivered to Altium Subscription customers include:
* Custom pad shapes. Non-standard pad shapes, switch contacts, metal shielding and more can now be created easily out of complex structures while the masks are still managed automatically based on rules.
* No ERC directives. This design directive is placed on a node in the circuit to suppress reported warning and/or error violation conditions (such as an unconnected pin), while still performing a comprehensive check of the rest of the circuit.
* More control in high-speed designs. Impedance controlled routing is an integral part of managing signal integrity for critical signals on a PCB. The algorithms, which calculate the track width based on the PCB layer stack, include more physical parameters of the PCB to produce better results.
Altium Subscription customers will get access to the continuum of Altium Designer updates and thousands of ready-to-use board-level components (including live links into the supply chain), software plug-in modules, design templates, reference designs and a growing library of example projects. All these resources are accessible through the AltiumLive Content Store and can be used directly from within Altium Designer. Through partnerships with key board-level component manufacturers such as STMicoelectronics, Altera, FTDI and Atmel, hundreds of new up-to-date components have already been released in 2012.
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