December 6, 2019
Altium launched the next version of its PCB design software: Altium Designer 20. Spanning more than two decades of electronic design, Altium Designer 20 aims to improve the design experience with a faster schematic editor, high-speed design and enhanced interactive router capabilities enabling faster board design.
Interactive routing capabilities enable routing of complex HDI boards and speed up design times by over 20%, even for simple printed circuit boards.
High-speed PCB routing capabilities advanced routing enables users to efficiently design high density and high-speed boards using modern SerDes like PCIe 4.0/5.0, USB3.2, 100G ethernet and parallel buses like DDR3/4/5.
Multi-board design the latest release influences ActiveBOM capabilities, including supplier search, BOM rule checking, and live part choices, for multi-board assemblies. Users can also export 3D PDF files of the multi-board assembly allowing collaborators to view and manipulate 3D assemblies.
High-voltage design capabilities for applications where high-voltage design is critical (e.g. spacecraft, high-altitude aircraft, and high-tech lasers), AD20 provides creepage rules that help maintain high-voltage clearances across the PCB surfaces for prevention of electrical arcing hazards for power supply and mixed-signal device designs.
Enhanced user experience the dynamic compilation capability provides quick access to data across schematic, layout, BOM generation, design documentation, and other elements of altium designer's unified design environment.
User-driven quality improvements AD20 boasts over 200 enhancements suggested by Altium designer users.
Altium Designer 20 is available now. For the latest product information and how to order visit https://www.altium.com/altium-designer/whats-new.
