Altium Designer v8.0 Winter09 Edition Service Pack 1
What’s new with Altium Designer?
The winter 09 release of Altium Designer is now available and introduces new design technologies and concepts to help electronics designers innovate, exploit advances in technology, and make the task of designing a product and getting it to market faster and easier.
It brings enhanced capabilities to the PCB design space so that you can design faster, get to manufacture without errors and accurately model and interact with your design in a full 3D PCB design environment.
It provides new capabilities that will help you manage the process of releasing design data beyond the design system and ensuring that releases proceed as smoothly as possible.
And it lets you design in new ways and exploit the potential offered by moving functionality into the soft domain.
The winter 09 release of Altium Designer comes just six months after the significant benefits offered by the summer 08 release and demonstrates our commitment to equipping all engineers with the capabilities they need to deliver next generation electronics designs.
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Why to choose Altium Designer:
Altium helps designers deliver real innovation in electronic product design.
We help designers focus on creating new functionality and product differentiation, to build the next generation of
electronic products.
And we do this by producing the solutions – the electronics design tools – designers need to create these new products.
Altium Designer is the world’s leading unified electronics design system. It allows developers to take a design from concept
through to completion within a single, unified application.
Single, unified design
environment
Allows you, in a single, unified design environment, to create the intelligence of your design using software, hardware
and programmable hardware, and deploy this through to board design and manufacture
Dynamic, real-time ECAD-MCAD
linking
Gives real-time, dynamic linking between the ECAD and MCAD design environments using powerful, real-time 3D
visualization technology to allow electronics designers to meet physical design constraints accurately and without
guesswork
Programmed product
functionality
Provides a new way to do electronics design that allows intelligent, connected products to be designed rapidly with a
focus on the functionality programmed into the product, rather than manufactured within it
Exploit the potential of
programmable devices
Enables you to exploit the potential offered by today’s large-capacity programmable devices as a rapid system design
and deployment platform
Easily work in updateable
soft realm
Lets you work within an easily updateable soft realm where you can change software and hardware with equal ease
Extends beyond design software
Extends beyond the design software to include development and deployment hardware as part of the design solution
Unifies software development
with FPGA design
Unifies software development with FPGA design to allow fluid partitioning of functionality between software running
on a processor and programmable hardware
Allow large-scale FPGAs to be
seamlessly integrated
Unifies FPGA design with board design to allow large-scale FPGAs to be seamlessly integrated into a custom physical
platform, using a unified design process
Design independent of device
vendor
Provides a comprehensive design environment that supports targeting of different processor architectures, different
processor implementations (hard, soft, hybrid) and different programmable logic families – design independent of device
vendor
Seamless design-level
portability
Provides seamless design-level portability between different software execution platforms and different programmable
logic devices
Rapid product implementation
Allows soft hardware to be uploaded to a range of off-the-shelf deployment NanoBoards – reconfigurable hardware
platforms – for rapid product implementation
Create and manage design
data centrally
Allows all design data to be created and managed centrally within a single design environment
Simultaneous soft and hard
design
Enables the soft design to be updated, modified and improved while the hardware is being designed, after the hardware
design is completed, and after the final product is shipped to customers
Ease of connectivity to wider
product ‘ecosystem’
Provides an easy way to add connectivity to designs to allow for development of a wider product ‘ecosystem’ that
connects you to your customers via your products
New deployment possibilities
Opens up a new world of deployment possibilities with Altium’s NanoBoard range of flexible, vendor-independent
reconfigurable hardware development and deployment platforms
Improved project management
and version control
Improves project management and speeds up design times by including as part of the design environment, powerful
data management capabilities like version control system support and the ability to compare graphical differences
between design files
Altium Designer enables you to:
* Streamline the entire product development process with a single unified design solution
o Use a fully-featured, single solution to develop hardware, programmable hardware and software
o Take designs from concept to manufacture within a single unified environment
o Work with a single model of the design data, and a single design data storage system
o Real time synchronization between schematic, PCB, FPGA and embedded design
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* Freely explore design concepts ‘on-the-fly’
o Explore devices from different vendors with minimal design reengineering
o Easily explore design concepts and options before committing to final hardware
o Use IP from any source, without being restricted to vendor-specific ‘sticky IP’
o Commit designs to hardware when you know what’s really needed
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* Rapidly prototype using a live, interactive hardware development system
o Develop, explore and debug designs on real hardware, in real-time with ‘LiveDesign'
o Harness the full potential of reprogrammable devices with soft-centric design
o Change software and hardware with equal ease and on-the-fly
o Fully develop and debug designs on the actual hardware before committing to prototype
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* Smooth the path from design to board layout and manufacture
o Single model of the design allows for one-touch generation of manufacturing data
o Single centralized data source simplifies version control and component management
o Visualize and interact with board designs in real-time 3D, within the PCB editor
o Seamless collaboration with MCAD designers and other engineering teams
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* Easily connect to wider company systems
o Single access point for all design data simplifies links for data management systems
o Plug-in capability and built-in interfaces for external data management
o All involved in product development process access one design environment
o Easy design collaboration between electronics design teams and the wider organization
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* Be equipped for the future with the latest design technologies
o Use and expand existing skill sets while harnessing the latest devices and techniques
o Make soft design and the creation of device intelligence the focus of design
o Access new technology as soon as it’s available, though consistent and frequent updates
o Easily migrate from other systems with advanced wizard-based design data importers
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* Be productive right ‘out-of-the-box’
o All tools and technologies are in the box, including parts libraries, royalty-fee IP and more
o No need to purchase costly add-ons to make a complete solution
o Continually updated with latest devices and technologies – an average of 2.5 updates per working day
o Comprehensive, free online training and direct access product support
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System requirements:
Windows Vista / Windows XP / Windows 2000 Professional
• 2 GHz Pentium 4 processor or equivalent
• 1 GB of RAM
• 2 GB hard disk space (for installation and user files)
• Two Monitor 1280x1024 resolution
• 32-bit color, 64 MB RAM video card
• Paralel port
INSTALATION ISNTRUCTION
Install and that's it 
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