Altium Designer 20 ushers in a new era of possibility. Its world-class interactive routing engine, brand new tuning capabilities, schematic upgrades, and bank of other enhancements enable users to experience truly limitless possibilities. With Altium Designer 20, no design is out of your reach.
Easy, Modern and Now Even More Powerful
Experience the industry’s finest PCB design product.
Explore the powerful new capabilities, features, and enhancements in Altium Designer 20.
Any Angle Routing
Expertly maneuver around obstacles on a densely populated board, routing deep into your BGA, eliminating the need for extra signal layers. With an intelligent obstacle avoidance algorithm, you’re able to avoid obstacles using tangential arcs, making the most efficient use of your board real estate.
Sliding
Editing traces to improve signal integrity can be time-consuming, especially when you have to edit individual arcs and serpentine tunings. This is why Altium Designer 20 incorporates a new gloss engine and advanced push and shove capabilities to help speed up this process so you can improve your productivity.
Return Path Checking
High-speed signals create electromagnetic fields that can cause cross talk, data errors or be radiated unless proper return paths are provided. Proper return paths allow noise currents to return to the ground through a very low impedance, eliminating the problems. Altium Designer 20 will monitor return paths and check the return path integrity of all reference polygons so that you won’t have to manually do it.
Schematic Rendering
A smooth and fast schematic experience awaits thanks to DirectX in Altium Designer. This new implementation smoothes out zooming, panning even dramatically speeds up copy and paste functionality.
Schematic Dynamic Data Model
Unnecessary re-compiling of large schematics can take up a lot of time. This is why Altium Designer uses a new dynamic data model, which incrementally and continuously compiles in the background eliminating the need to perform a full design compile.
Time Based Matched Lengths
High-speed digital circuits depend on signals and data arriving on time. If traces are improperly tuned, flight times vary and data errors can be abundant. Altium Designer 20 calculates the propagation time on traces and provides synchronized flight time for high-speed digital signals.
Creepage Voltage Rule
In high voltage circuits creepage can be a problem, causing leakage current that can jeopardize your design. Altium Designer 20 has new features that can help you avoid creepage
Interactive Properties Panel
Have complete clarity to design objects and functions with the updated properties panel. View pertinent properties, supplier info, and even life-cycle info all in real-time.
