Altium
Unified platform for electronics design and PCB collaboration.
Altium is a PCB design and electronics development platform that combines Altium Designer with the Altium 365 cloud platform, connecting design, supply chain, and manufacturing teams. It addresses scattered design data, siloed workflows, and limited visibility across distributed hardware development teams.
The platform spans requirements traceability linked to schematics and PCB designs, advanced PCB layout with 3D modeling, routing, and rigid-flex design, component management with pricing and lifecycle data, version-controlled release packages, and browser-based file review. Altium 365 includes SSO, MFA, role permissions, audit logs, and encryption, with compliance coverage including SOC 2, CMMC, GDPR, and a GovCloud option. Solutions include Octopart Discover for component discovery, Altium Develop for PCB design, Altium Agile Teams for multidisciplinary collaboration, and Altium Agile Enterprise for governed enterprise development.
It is aimed at electrical engineers, hardware teams, supply chain and manufacturing stakeholders, and enterprises managing electronics development across systems. Altium 365 is included with Altium Develop, Altium Agile Teams, and Altium Agile Enterprise. Free Altium 365 tools, a student lab, and education resources are available; specific pricing and plan structures are not detailed on these pages.
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