Accuphase Laboratory Inc.

Innovative audio equipment manufacturer Accuphase Laboratories uses Altium Designer to create high-performance audio equipment.

"Altium Designer provides many features for the design of state-of-the-art hi-fi audio apparatus and has evolved with its ongoing development to offer us a state-of-the-art design environment. Our service department also uses Altium Designer to create manuals, since they can save time by using the schematics and PCB data directly from the designers, which is great!”

Mark M. Suzuki, Director, Engineering Dept, Accuphase Laboratory Inc.

Agilent-Qianfeng Electronics Technologies

Agilent-Qianfeng Electronics Technologies selects Altium technology as most productive solution for their new R&D lab.

"Protel's short learning curve, intuitive operation, high level of integration, powerful features and cost effectiveness, together with Altium's demonstrated commitment to our success, made the decision to select Altium Designer as the superior design system, an easy one."

Xiaofei Ma General manager of R&D Agilent-Qianfeng Agilent-Qianfeng Electronic Technologies (Chengdu) Co Ltd

ANCA

Global CNC machine manufacturer ANCA has used Altium Designer to create the advanced electronics for its new cutting-edge machine within record time.

“Altium Designer is a feature-rich, flexible and intuitive design software with no boundaries and a very powerful user interface. Altium has assisted ANCA to evolve as a world leader in the CNC Tool and Cutter Grinder market.“

Ian Rees Electronics Engineer, ANCA Pty Ltd

Arete Associates

Areté Associates is an advanced science and engineering company that provides innovative solutions to advanced technical issues in the United States.

"During the five years my company used Protel 99SE we appreciated the tightly-integrated environment that allowed us to easily move between design tools. The subsequent transition to Altium Designer was very easy and we found the new and improved features make it a pleasure to use. Our team’s productivity has dramatically improved thanks to the major feature advances and its high level of integration."

Dave Miller Chief Electrical Engineer, Arete Associates

Austdac Pty Ltd

Austdac Pty Limited it is one of Australia’s largest suppliers of communications, gas and environmental monitoring, intrinsically safe lighting and conveyor control equipment to Australian coal mines and general industry.

"The advantages and time savings delivered by the Altium Designer Database Library made the effort of setting it up well worth it. It has reduced our time to generate BOMs from up to a week to less than 30 minutes and it has allowed Austdac to rationalize and consolidate the parts that we use on our designs to the point where we have reduced the number of parts by over 50%."

Peter Chan Senior Electronics Engineer Austdac Pty Ltd

Australian Defence Force Academy

Final year students in UNSW@ADFA’s School of Aeronautical, Civil and Mechanical Engineering use Altium Designer to carry out demanding projects targeted at defence applications.

“The unified design software and flexible hardware solution provided by Altium Designer and Altium’s NanoBoard allowed us to quickly develop innovative solutions for our project, saving several months in hardware development time.”

Craig Robilliard Research Officer UNSW@ADFA

Australian Government Bureau of Meteorology

"Altium Designer is the most appropriate tool to design our signal processors, radio frequency circuits, power and servo control systems. We use a wide range of technologies for our operations, so our design tool needs to be flexible, easy to use and capable of designing complex circuits in a mixed analog and digital signal environment. Because we touch on so many disciplines, Altium Designer’s intuitive user-interface allows us to complete our designs in the most efficient and effective manner."

Frank Cummings Technical Officer Australian Bureau of Meteorology Radar Group

austriamicrosystems

austriamicrosystems is a global leader in the design and manufacture of high-performance standard and customised analogue integrated circuits (ICs).

“Altium Designer really helps us with our speed of execution and to be extremely fast with PCB turnarounds. It is an easy to use tool, it is an enabler. PCB level design is Altium’s core competence and that, along with ease of use, reliability and very good support, has been key for us.”

Herbert Truppe, Director, Product Management & Application, austriamicrosystems

BAB Elektronik

Halving development time, doubling monthly throughput: Altium's MCAD ECAD collaboration is "the best thing that has happened to electronics since the invention of the transistor!"

"Since upgrading to Altium Designer we have halved our development time and doubled our monthly design throughput. There have been many improvements made by Altium throughout the years, but it's the latest MCAD ECAD developments in 3D that have delivered the best results for me and my customers."

Anders Rambrant, Managing Director / Design Engineer, BAB Elektronik

BAE Systems

World leading developer of HF radar technology, BAE Systems Australia uses Altium Designer to create cutting-edge signal systems for Australia's unique Over The Horizon surveillance radar.

"Altium Designer allows us to create advanced high-frequency digital radar receivers and signal processors within budget and on-time. With the ongoing development of highfrequency radar systems we rely on Altium Designer to help us utilize the latest design techniques and technologies."

Jeff Robinson Principal Technical Officer, BAE Systems Australia

Bang and Olufsen

Creativity when there is freedom to explore and experiment.

"We chose Altium Designer because we need to produce prototypes rapidly and without fuss. The introduction of integrated database libraries allows us to do this. We can easily place up-to-date, pre-approved components straight onto the schematic. And the 3D visualization engine means we can fit our boards into their cases and reduce MCAD ECAD revisions to a single clearance checking procedure. Features like these allow us to complete designs quicker and with more confidence. For example, prototypes that once took a month to complete are now finished in half that time."

Bent Christensen Senior Engineer, Innovation and Prototyping, Bang and Olufsen

Bluefin Robotics

Bluefin Robotics is seeing a sea change in E-CAD M-CAD design integration with Altium Designer.

“Altium Designer has created an environment where the mechanical and electrical engineering teams can meet to model, visualize, and discuss the electro-mechanical designs early on in the design phase. Altium Designer is not only critical to the design process, but also to the success of the design.”

Richard Wilson, Electrical Engineer Manager, Bluefin Robotics

Bosch Rexroth

When it comes to green engineering, there appears to be a clear trade-off between long-standing corporate strategies and environmental responsibility. But what if it was possible to overcome market pressures and see the benefits of both?

“Upgrading to Altium Designer has delivered incredible time-to-market and cost cutting advantages that have also worked into our green electronics strategy. We are able to complete our boards in half the time whilst reducing materials, power consumption and increasing reliability. Green electronics are the future and Altium is helping us get there quicker.”

Wang Jianyuan, Deputy R&D Director, Bosch Rexroth China

Cochlear

"For over 25 years Cochlear has been improving the quality of life for the profoundly deaf. Today, we are the world leader in cochlear implants. Our engineers are pleased to choose Altium Designer as electronics design system."

David McKenzie, Electronic Design Engineer

Computronics

Summer 09 upgrade speeds up PCB layout for agriculture electronics

“I think Altium's MCAD ECAD capabilities are very good; it saves us a lot of time. I can import the model of the casing, which might be done in SolidWorks or another CAD tool, and see the full size of the chassis and the board. Then we generate a few engineering prototype boards to see how everything fits.”

Timothy Cheong, PCB Design Engineer, Computronics

Cornet Technology

Leading network management solutions provider Cornet Technology uses Altium Designer to create advanced data and communication routing products for the world market.

"I continue to use Altium software because the company not only has a product that surpasses its competitors, but also a design package that continually makes significant improvements with each upgrade. Altium Designer enables me to complete high-quality designs more quickly than other more expensive design products."

Don Starsiak Senior PCB Design Engineer Cornet Technology Inc.

COSL

China Oilfield Services Limited (COSL) uses Altium technology to enhance its logging image system.

“Altium‘s technology truly provides for all our designs needs. The unified design environment provides a new way of designing that is easier and more efficient. This means we not only save time, it means COSL can develop innovatively and focus on the areas of design that really makes a difference.”

- Shang Xiu-Sheng, Engineering Manager, COSL

CSEM

The Centre Suisse d'Electronique et de Microtechnique uses Altium Designer to bridge the E-CAD M-CAD divide.

“Altium Designer allowed us to develop a complex design comprised of several printed circuit boards without any errors. Because design revisions were completely avoided, we were able to focus on making sure our project delivered all its ambitious design objectives.”

- Jean Luprano, Project Co-ordinator, CSEM

Danish Interpretation Systems

Danish Interpretation Systems (DIS) uses Altium technology to develop the world’s most-advanced digital conference system.

“Since we are a smaller company, we needed a software system that was fairly easy to learn and did not require a huge amount of knowledge to use it.”

- George Johannesen, Hardware Designer, Danish Interpretation Systems

DeepSea Power & Light

Specialized oceanographic equipment manufacturer DeepSea Power & Light has undergone a valuable sea-change by migrating from P-CAD to Altium Designer

“I am very happy with the change, and as I am getting used to the system I like it more and more. The tech support has been exceptional and has been one of the highlights -- it makes the whole transition much better. I am happy with the switch and I would recommend other people going the Altium Designer way.”

Jan Soukup Hardware Engineer DeepSea Power & Light

Delkin Devices

Making design easier – Delkin Devices upgrades from Altium Designer 2004

“With Altium, it’s all there in one tool.”

Steven Powers, PCB Design Engineer, Delkin Devices

Digital Design Corporation

Complex Video Systems Take Flight With Altium Designer Integration and Automation

“At DDC, the hardware engineer builds the schematics and the board layout. I’ve done the design; I know the architecture, so I know how the routing needs to perform. Altium Designer is perfect for the way we work.”

Mike Cortopassi, Principal Staff Engineer, Digital Design Corporation

Directed Energy - IXYS Colorado

More time designing electronics and less time fighting the software. Directed Energy makes the switch to Altium Designer.

“Complicated boards that would take 4-5 months to complete, are now being completed in 3-4 months.”

Mike Barber, Research and Development Engineer, Directed Energy

DKB Resources

Designing PCBs for Mars – making complex design process management work in the real world.

"One of the biggest benefits we give our clients is how we manage data - we manage information input, store data, verify facts, research details and turn all of this information into products. Altium Designer is a powerful asset for us, helping us more accurately and efficiently manage data received from clients as well as how we then get that data to our customers for review, and then receive that data back with whatever changes and feedback the client includes. "The ease with which Altium Designer helps makes this information exchange happen has made my company more efficient by at least 50%. And we can pass these time savings on in cost savings to our clients."

Darya Bronston, President, DKB Resources

Electronic Design Solutions, Inc.

Electronic Design Solutions is managing designs six times more complex with Altium Designer

“Ten years ago, a board with 500 components was a significant project. Now we regularly develop boards with more than 3,000 components. Design complexity just continues to skyrocket, but because we keep up-to-date with Altium’s software, we are able to maintain this momentum and design electronics that are above customer expectations,” said Mike.

Mike Reagan, Engineer Electronic Design Solutions Inc.

Encore Electronics

Encore Electronics uses Altium Designer to meet the challenges of contracting.

"As a contractor, I sometimes use competitive products, but I always try to show people how advanced Altium Designer is compared to what they’re using. It is absolutely the best value, it brings a new level of system development integration to the electronic design community, and Altium give FPGA designers vendor independence which allows me to make real comparisons with the big 3 vendors. Furthermore, Altium’s support is second to none."

Tony Karavidas Owner Encore Electronics

Enginuitive Technologies

“Being able to import mechanical enclosures into Altium Designer helps us to do things right the first time, and that’s an important concept in engineering. Altium Designer’s mechanical capabilities have eliminated our need for third-party contractors. This has been a significant cost reducer for us and our customers. Being adaptable is extremely important and is a unique aspect of our company. We are able to publicise this capability thanks to Altium Designer.”

Kylee Sealy, Owner/Engineer, Enginuitive Technologies.

eSolar

eSolar powers up design by using Altium Designer to create digital controllers that manage solar power stations.

“I looked at several alternatives to Altium and found each one to be lacking in its capabilities on one area of design or another. Altium Designer was the first package I worked with that had strong capabilities in both schematic capture and board layout. While all other vendors offered an integrated solution, Altium Designer was the only one to truly unify the design process.”

Carter Moursund Vice President of Engineering, eSolar

Ferranti Technologies

Ferranti Technologies uses Altium to streamline design.

“We are already saving money as a result of using Altium. We used to include a component validation stage in our process to double check the information on the drawings against the database. This step is now redundant and we have been able to free-up manpower for other tasks.”

Ben Griffin, Hardware Engineering Manager, Ferranti Technologies

Gryphon Systems Engineering

Developing rapid prototypes is all in a day’s work for Gryphon Systems Engineering

“When we heard about Altium and the buzz around Altium Designer and the Desktop NanoBoard, it sounded too good to be true. But now that we have seen that it actually works, we are converts. Altium's holistic approach to design really is a paradigm shift that has changed our design processes for the better.”

Peter Stephens Engineer Gryphon Systems Engineering

Heidelberg Instruments

Heidelberg Instruments standardises on Altium solutions for next generation lithography systems

“The design process for FPGA devices in BGA housings will be dramatically accelerated by using the unified design environment provided by Altium. With our old software tools, several time consuming steps were needed to do pin swapping in a design. This can now be done up to ten times faster. Another reason for choosing Altium Designer is the easy import of our old designs and the support of FPGAs already in use.”

HepaHope Inc

Per our conversation - I wanted to share with you our thoughts on why we selected Altium Designer for our PCB design tool set. When those of us here at HepaHope put together our criteria for choosing a design tool, we developed and sent out a checklist identifying our needs to the major vendors and asked that they respond with regard to their current product offering. Altium was the only vendor that could meet all of our requirements. A representative from one of the other key players offering a PCB design tools told us "We cannot give you a complete integrated package to do Schematic capture, PCB layout, and FPGA development. However, we can sell you or help you select the individual components and then work with you to integrate it all together". Altium Designer not only meets our requirements but they offer a single complete integrated package for what the other vendors were charging for a single component. The choice was easy; Altium Designer.

Nick Haman Sr. Electronic Engineer HepaHope, Inc

Imaxeon

Since 1983, Australian company Imaxeon has been manufacturing and distributing contrast injection systems to assist medical imagery equipment such as CT scanners and X-rays.

"Imaxeon believes Altium’s unified environment has captured the future direction of electronic design. Today’s engineers are quickly moving away from being traditional schematic or PCB specialists and becoming generalists in electronic design."

Tim Newing Senior R&D Engineer Imaxeon

Innes Corp

Broadcasting Innovation

“I was thrown in the deep end of the FPGA pool, with a tight deadline and a need to make the hardware work first go. With Altium Designer I could use the same familiar tools for the FPGA that I’d been using for the PCB, and everything just worked with a minimum of fuss. I’m smiling, management is impressed and our customers are happy.”

Jeff Pages Senior Development Engineer Innes Corporation

ITT Corporation

High-tech US defense contractor ITT Corporation, Systems Division switches to Altium technology for its complex re-engineering projects.

“Unlike our previous design software, Altium Designer provides us with new design possibilities and offers all of the features we need in a productive, unified system that’s well supported and easy to use.”

Ted Walford Engineering Services Manager ITT Systems Division

Johnson Fitness

Johnson Fitness uses Altium technology to fast track its newest line of fitness equipment

“Altium makes product development so much easier. Its unified environment dynamically synchronizes the original source schematics and PCB, allowing us to completely skip the netlist generation phase. Component library management is more efficient, convenient, and reliable. We can also generate 3D documentation for the structural engineers to run assembly simulations and assist with mechanical designs. It’s this combination of powerful features and Altium’s unified environment that has allowed Johnson Fitness to shorten its product development cycles and create today’s most innovative fitness equipment.”

Lui Min, Product development design engineer, Johnson Fitness

Joyscan

Intelligent machine vision manufacturer Shenzhen Joyscan Technology brings the ECAD and MCAD worlds together with Altium Designer

“Altium Designer helps us get our products to market faster. It is an extraordinarily helpful tool for a small enterprise like us. And its powerful 3D PCB visualization capabilities, in particular, make ECAD-MCAD collaboration possible in ways that it has shortened Joyscan’s time-to-market by 30%.“

Fan Xiaoming General Manager Shenzhen Joyscan Technology Co., Ltd.

Kellendonk Elektronik GmbH

"With Altium Designer we were able to implement documentation and development in one design environment. As a result of the focus to one Software we achieved our objectives to optimize internal processes. With Altium Designer we managed to design complex and innovative products with several variants and follow-ups and bring them to market within a 6 months period."

Jan Gregor PCB Systems Specialist Kellendonk Elektronik GmbH

Knowledge Resources

The most difficult projects can be the most rewarding

“Because we use Altium Designer, we have been able to complete very complex designs in very short periods of time. For example, we were given a contract for a 12 layer PCB containing a Xilinx high-performance FPGA. The design came with a list of performance targets and a wish list of possible assembly options, but the hardest part was that it needed to be delivered in just four weeks! It was a tight design with a tight deadline. But with Altium Designer, we were able to deliver on schedule and above expectations.”

Mike Stengle, Principal, Knowledge Resources

Leica Geosystems - Agriculture

This is about an outsourced design gone wrong, a new product launch and how it changed the way Leica Geosystems Agriculture completes its electronic designs.

“Altium has completely changed the way we design our electronics. The integrated database libraries have streamlined our designs, allowing our engineers to just drag and drop components, pre-approved schematic symbols and footprints straight onto the schematic. The regular updates are also great. The new MCAD ECAD real-time collaboration technology means we can fit our boards first time, every time.”

Scott Gemmell, Engineering Manager, Leica Geosystems Agriculture

Linn Products

Recreating a classic requires a modern touch

“What we've found with Altium Designer is it is a much more integrated package. The flow of information from schematic to layout and ultimately through to design is seamless for us, it’s effortless, it integrates into the business database which allows us to create the materials rapidly. It allows us to get accurate information to our service team for populating the boards. We can verify gerbers before we send them off to the PCB manufacturer. All of these things just give us more time to be engineers and be creative engineers, and that allows us to make better products for our customers.”

Ian Wilson, Principal Design Engineer (Electronics), Linn Products

Malloch Digital Design

“We have been using Altium products since the late 90s and have always been impressed by the new features and enhancements. Not only do these upgrades increase productivity, but they also make the life of the design engineer just that much better. With features like easy PCB layer management, DRC and more recently Dynamic Net Highlighting and the enhanced Visual PickList, Malloch Digital Design has been able to decrease development time to about a third of the time it used to take. Altium Designer is the cornerstone of our PCB development and we look forward to many more years of this successful relationship.”

Tom Courtney Electronics Design Engineer Malloch Digital Design

Nanjing Estun Industrial Automation Ltd

Nanjing Estun uses Altium Designer to clock up high speeds

“The rate of equipment upgrades and developments in new technology mean that EDA tools need to meet new standards in high-speed complex routing. Altium Designer has shown that it can step up to these challenges. Our high-speed designs are being completed more quickly and meeting our design performance targets.”

Liao Fuquan, Research and Development Manager, Nanjing Estun Industrial Automation Ltd

National Semiconductor

"We evaluated tools from all of the leading vendors in our search for an ideal solution to capture our internal development and deliver modified designs to our customers as quickly as possible. The universal translation, flexibility and ease of use of the Altium system was unmatched in this survey.”

Phil Gibson Vice President Technical Selling & Web Tools for National Semiconductor

Nuvation

Nuvation: simply right first time

“Altium Designer supports us in our ‘right first time’ designs, it improves schedule and reduces budget for our customers. Being able to do that gives us a real competitive advantage. Our engineers love it, there are partnership opportunities and value for money is excellent.”

Mike Worry, CEO and founder, Nuvation Engineering.

Omnisys Instruments

"The flexible and intuitive features of Altium Designer allow us to create complex custom designs more quickly. For those who have not upgraded to Altium Designer, they are really missing out on a fantastic product."

Mattias Ericson Engineer, Omnisys Instruments

OPTEX

The Altium Designer is adopted as the standard electronic system CAD in constructing the information system that is common to the entire company.

"Altium Designer was the one that satisfied the specification demands of the electronic system CAD when standardizing the respective business flows of electronic design, mechanical design, and software development.”

Mr. Toru Kamimura Executive Officer, Divisional General Manager, Research & Development Div. OPTEX.CO., LTD.

Panavision Australia

Capturing the next generation of electronics design

“At Panavision Australia, I'm frequently asked to make specialised electronic Film and Video equipment within a short period of time. It’s for this reason I need the best tools available and Altium Designer meets this need. The tools and features are user-friendly, with everything I need from an extensive library through to auto routing. With Altium Designer’s high-speed design and ease of use, I can complete everything from the simplest PCB to the most complex design on time and with minimum fuss. I look forward to seeing the next generation of Altium Designer software.”

Migrating to Altium Designer translates to success for Photometrics.

“Altium Designer provides a complete, seamless and flawless database and library translation process, without the headache of manually recreating years of work. From our experience, Altium Designer is the ultimate electronics design solution.”

David A. Rappaport Senior CAD Design Engineer, Photometrics

S3 Group

Silicon & Software Systems Ltd. (S3) is the world leading provider of Connected Consumer Technology enabling the delivery of next generation products and services to consumers, at home and on the move.

“When it comes to delivering innovative solutions the Altium Designer integrated tool flow offers ease-of-use, reliability, interoperability and adaptability. Altium meets S3’s wide ranging needs within a single integrated solution enabling us to continue to deliver connected consumer technology to our global client base.”

John Mulcahy General Manager, Consumer Healthcare Silicon & Software Systems Ltd.(S3)

Sanden Vendo America Inc

Design, manufacture and sales of product vending equipment

'It was very important to purchase software which is very user friendly, and from a company that has a reputation for excellent customer service. It is difficult to find in one company a high level of all these 4 ingredients: quality, price, after sales service and ease of use. Altium Designer possess all of those up to the highest level of satisfaction.'

Yogesh Patel Design Engineer, Sanden Vendo America Inc.

Saturn South

Saturn South uses Altium Designer to overcome obstacles that have historically challenged new players in the electronics design sector: cost, speed, accuracy, flexibility.

“Our business has been built on the concept of being able to do every aspect of a design in a single program. I think this is the way design will be done in the future, it makes a lot of sense. It’s great to have a tool like Altium Designer which is available at such a reasonable price point, that we can do so much with, and as our development team grows will let us expand and continue to develop products effectively. Altium Designer enables us to take a new idea, a new product concept and do the design and push it out to the market in record time.”

Tim Warren, Director, Saturn South.

Simulation Technologies, Inc.

Simulation Technologies, Inc. reduces schematic entry from weeks to days using Altium Designer.

“Altium is a powerful, intuitive, and flexible electronics design tool. With its very supportive technical staff, it has allowed our organization to transition quickly and smoothly from an older design technology to a much more powerful one. Our designs are now being completed better and much faster.”

Richard Mohlere, Engineer, Simulation Technologies Inc

Skylab

Skylab Industries

“If you have the right tools and you are effective with them, you enter the markets very, very fast. You have the maximum chance to be successful in the business.”

Stephan Davy, SpaceWire Technical Engineer

SMIC

Semiconductor Manufacturing International Corporation (SMIC) standardizes on Altium and unifies its design process

“We've used all the PCB design tools, but Altium has proved to be the best solution for our design teams. The unified software platform means that switchover and navigation between schematics and the PCB is convenient and fast. Features such as differential pairs, net length tuning and integrity analysis are extremely helpful and ensure that our boards meet their high-speed performance targets.”

Liu Qi, International IC Manufacturing and Testing Service Department, SMIC

SpaceX

"As a PCB design tool, Altium Designer is second to none. The unified design environment is intuitive and has made managing my project trouble free. In just two weeks I was able to learn the tool, design my board, and have a fully assembled PCB ready for test. Altium Designer is an incredibly flexible and capable tool. I would recommend every circuit designer consider making the switch."

- Matt Soule, Engineer, SpaceX

Spectrum Design Solutions, Inc

"We chose Altium as our electronic design environment for two reasons. The first reason had to do with Altium’s ability to import and edit database files from a variety of different vendors. In the design consulting business, we are often required to edit schematic and layout files from OrCAD, Pads, or some other EDA vendor. Rather than maintain licenses for a variety of different tools, Altium allows us to import and edit 95% of the PCB designs that come through our door. Second, the annotation between the different phases of the electronic design flow such as schematic-to-PCB, PCB-to-schematic, PCB-to-FPGA, etc eliminates many headaches and inefficiencies that most designers take for granted. The only way we can stay in business is by taking our customers to market quickly, and with minimal errors along the way. Altium helps us accomplish this. After spending my first full day with Altium, I went out and purchased stock in the company. There’s no better testimonial than that."

Steve Kilts Director of Engineering, Spectrum Design Solutions, Inc

STMicroelectronics

Making hard-drive ASIC verification a whole lot easier.

“I can’t depend on a large support team, with separate resources for libraries, design, PCB layout. When you are in charge of this type of project, you do everything. Altium Designer lets you do all the work in one piece of software.”

Vincent Himpe, Systems Development Engineer, STMicroelectronics

Sunways

Illuminating Design

"I highly value Altium Designer’s regular updates and enhancements. I am always noticing developments in its operation sequences such as the retention of bends and angles, quick control with the help of the drill diameter editor and the ability to route multiple traces and slot-holes."

Christoph Dürschlag Sunways AG Photovoltaic Technology

TVonics

Innovative UK manufacturer of digital TV set top boxes, TVonics, has made an impression in the market with its stylish, functional, energy-efficient products.

“Altium Designer is a functional tool that allows us to get on with the with job of designing the board.”

Mike Jones, Senior Designer, TVonics

University of Zagreb

The University of Zagreb standardizes on Altium Designer

“Altium’s integration of board-level, schematic, HDL, system-level and software design flows, together with the large IP component library and LiveDesign philosophy enables us and our students to design complex hardware-software systems several times faster than with traditional tools with low learning curve“

Roko Grubišić, Teaching Assistant, Department of Electronics, Microelectronics, Computer and Intelligent Systems, Faculty of Electrical Engineering and Computing, University of Zagreb, Croatia

Ushio America Inc

"As a recovering Cadsoft Eagle user I can say that the advantages of Altium Designer are many compared to Eagle (I know nothing about PCAD). In my situation we design entire systems into FPGAs so the tight integration of Altium Designer is the major advantage. As you are probably aware, one can go from schematic to board to FPGA synthesis and simulation to firmware in the soft cores to emulation and debug all from the Altium Designer environment. We would be out of business without it. As previously mentioned, contact your vendor for class info."

Max Miller Technical Products Division Ushio America Inc

Vanteon

“I have trained a few P-CAD users on Altium Designer, and its GUI is very intuitive and easy to learn. I can pretty much set someone down in front of the tool, spend an hour or so showing them the project hierarchy and menu concept, and they can figure out 95% of the program without looking in the help file. The migration and translation from P-CAD was also very smooth, apart from a few things. That’s where Altium's tech support really shines. We didn’t usually have to wait more than a day to get a response, and when we did, we got an honest response rather than beating around the bush.”

Volkswagen Group of America Electronics Research Lab

The Volkswagen Group of America Electronics Research Lab is developing the electronics you will use tomorrow, today.

“Over time, our electronic designs have become more complex. They are denser, with more components and multiple board assemblies. At the Volkswagen Group of America Electronics Research Lab, we have always kept up-to-date with Altium software because it helps us to manage and even overcome this increasing complexity.”

Cameron Christie, Senior Engineer, Volkswagen Group of America Electronics Research Lab