Altium Limited to Altium Designer added 3 d PCB visualization engine, that all designers design experience vivid interface card. Through Altium Designer 6.8 3 d PCB visualization features, the Designer can always check the board of precise forming, and more easily to share information with other members of the design team.
This is Altium Designer 6.8 one of the more than 300 new features and enhancements, Altium Designer 6.8 will remain committed to the board level design, programmable hardware and the design of the embedded software development unification on the basis of a single environment. These functions to solve the all design rules to a single, unified in the architecture requirements. They provide design with a single coherent view, and share a single user interface and data storage model.
In the plane of the 3 d visualization technology: the board level design has become the past tense
3 d visualization engine will board level design into the future. Designers can use this feature
Turn and rotate design, look around each element, scaling of blank board until it is on track and line is clearly visible, even browse internal layers beneath the surface of the board. These operations are done in real time, and don't need stylist to set or using dedicated 3 d model.
For the board to complete hardware accelerated 3 d rendering views, have all surface texture, the distribution and the PCB surface treatment of true color, light and shade. Designers need to move the mouse pointer around design, will be able to check the card's internal structure.
Three dimensional visualization technology can not only in the card for you in the early view of the manufacturing to provide the card before forming and also able to provide you with more vivid in your design of the card view. As a result, less experienced the board designer and including management personnel, personnel involved in the whole design chain can be more easily to check the board design process and cascade structure.
This technology can also help the designers to expand existing skills, into new areas. Those experts not affiliated with the PCB layout Designer using the Altium Designer environment of the unified and its 3 d visualization technology, and other functions, in the case of no need to master the relevant professional knowledge, can play a greater role in the whole design process.
Experienced PCB designer to be able to use the new visual function within the connections between layers and the printing correct placement and legibility of text. Real-time 3 d view also helps to quickly capture the card details of manufacturing, which is included in the manufacturing instructions and provide image design and product documentation.
The board level is more new features and enhancements
Altium Designer other board level 6.8 new features including Altium Designer difference of interactive line length adjustment function. Designers are now able to adjust the difference of the length of the line at the same time, in the most current using FPGA has many difference of signal function, this advantage is particularly prominent.
Altium Designer can now implement will figure 6.8 yuan file data from the Windows clipboard and paste directly to the PCB design, simplified the logo on the PCB's mechanical layer, form, or image data input. PCB editor also strengthened the placement and distribution of inversion text, bar code created and placed directly, and support for the board shear chunk creation.
Through a lot of GUI enhancements, such as real-time highlight when hovering components and network functions, fast mouse scale and function of the new grid option, the designer can focus on the design task, and need not be in the basic navigation and consumes too much energy on interface function.
Unified circuit diagram electrical wire, bus and the signal: basic connectivity can be simplified
Because joined the signal wire object, principle diagram level of attachment, bus and the signal wiring harness connectivity has been unified and simplified significantly. Designers are now able to assemble a logical grouping of any a kind of signal, greatly simplifies the wired connection, improve the readability, and reduce the complexity of the circuit diagram design. They will also be able to create and manipulate between subcircuits higher level of abstraction connection, use more simple drawings are more complicated design.
Improve the design level of abstraction, signal wire object more easily achieve the reuse of complex circuit design. Now designers can be placed in the new circuit diagram have previously designed complex circuit function, it not only save design time for them, and allow them to focus on the design of the more valuable.
Unified embedded intelligence and programmable hardware board level design
Many board level designers are turning to adopt such as FPGA programmable devices. Altium Designer 6.8 help designers apply these devices at the same time to the board level and system level. New OpenBus graphics editor provides the system structure of create intuitive and advanced method. System components including CPU, bus arbitration device, a peripheral drive hardware and storage interface. OpenBus simplifies the Wishbone, etc. The complexity of the system to create, designers only need to drag and drop components from the palette and simple lines to connect it.
Don't take HDL C2H compiler
Altium Designer 6.8 provides a unified hardware - software compilation, extends the existing compiler, using the standard C code to import, the compiled object code and the FPGA RTL output together. Developers need to choose their hope before compilation C functions and variables can be applied to the special hardware, but also do not need to designer have the skills of using HDL.
Design reuse as Altium Designer unified architecture core, also due to the introduction of the reusable components circuit layer technology and be able to enhance. Device between different design projects of layer technology to achieve the circuit drawing storage and reuse. Designers can create and store can easily reuse existing circuit. Therefore the existing design elements can be used in the design of multiple projects. Designers need to use the new board level annotation capabilities, the realization of multiple tagging and synchronization logic element, can complete the management of design reuse.
By moving from point tool is simple to protect your investment
Altium Designer 6.8 enhance transfer tools make more companies and designers can more easily realize Altium Designer upgrade, and enjoy the benefits of unified design. Altium Designer 6.8 also for OrCAD Capture, OrCAD Layout and Mentor Graphics PADS added DxDesigner converter.
