Designers need tools that help them make the most of modern technologies, successfully manage projects,
and deliver connected intelligent products. We create the tools designers need.
Altium has over 30 years of continuous R&D in PCB design
We have a strong track record in engineering development and engineering excellence.
- Altium is focused on margin expansion: We are committed to growing our margin each year to enter and to maintain 30% plus.
- Altium has global diversified earnings: Our revenue is comprised of 48% Americas, 32% in Europe, 14% Emerging Markets and 7% in Asia Pacific.
- Altium is debt free: We believe in maintaining a clean balance sheet and expense all R&D costs.
- Altium revenue is underpinned by subscription: 53% of total revenue is subscription-based, with over 31,000 subscribers globally.
- Altium is committed to achieving double-digit sales & revenue growth each year: We believe in consistent financial performance.
- Altium expanding market reach through partnership and growing capability through acquisition: We are committed to expanding our addressable market beyond PCB to systems design.
- Altium is committed to achieving market leadership in PCB design by 2020.: We have a set goal of US$150 million in pure PCB revenue and US$200 million in total revenue by 2020.
- Altium is well positioned for future growth: At the heart of intelligent systems are electronics and PCBs.
- Altium is focused on returning profit to shareholders: We are committed to growing dividends each year.
OUR HISTORY
Altium has a rich history starting out in 1985 as one of the first providers of PCB design tools and over time
developing into one of the market leaders
4225 Executive Square, La Jolla, CA 92037
- Phone: 1.8588641500
- Fax Number: 1.8588641710
- Street Address: 4225 Executive Square
- City: La Jolla
- State: CA
- Postal Code: 92037
- Country: USA
- Regions: North America
- License Type: Proprietary
- Functionality: Editor
KiCad EDA is a Cross Platform and Open Source Electronics Design Automation Suite
PCB Layout
Make professional PCB layouts with up to 32 copper layers. KiCad now has a push-and-shove router that is capable of routing differential pairs and interactively tuning trace lengths.
Schematic Capture
KiCad's Schematic Editor supports everything from the most basic schematic to a complex hierarchical design with hundreds of sheets. Create your own custom symbols or use some of the thousands found in the official KiCad library. Verify your design with an integrated SPICE simulator and electrical rules checker.
3D Viewer
KiCad includes a 3D viewer that you can use to inspect your design in an interactive canvas. You can rotate and pan around to inspect details that are difficult to inspect on a 2D view. Multiple rendering options allow you to modify the aesthetic appearance of the board or to hide and show features for easier inspection.
KiCad is an open-source project, download instructions above are provided by the community.
- License Type: Free & Open Source
- Publisher: Siemens Digital Industries Software
- Functionality: Editor
- Country: USA
- Regions: North America
- License Type: Proprietary
- Publisher: Siemens Digital Industries Software
- Functionality: Editor
Going beyond PCB design software
Xpedition Enterprise delivers the PCB design software functionality you need like layout and schematic but goes beyond to enable a fully integrated electronic systems design flow that bridges the gap from the IC to PCB to fabrication with integrated verification at every step.
Xpedition Enterprise is the industry’s most innovative PCB design flow, providing integration from system design definition to manufacturing execution. Its unique technologies can reduce design cycles by 50 percent or more while significantly improving overall quality and resource efficiency.
PCB design best practices
Today, PCB design teams must deliver more complex products on even more compressed schedules. Get ahead of these challenges by learning the best practices of modern PCB design, which we have broken down into the five pillars of digital transformation.
Digitally integrated and optimized
Establishing a digitally integrated solution across multiple domains reduces manual intervention, fosters collaboration, and improves transparency across disciplines.
With a digitally integrated and optimized multi-domain environment, all engineering teams, including IC, IC packaging, FPGA, and PCB design within electronics, as well as mechanical and software, can optimize the costs associated with a project, accelerate design time, manage data integrity and improve the quality of results. The best practices that can enable a digitally integrated and optimized multi-domain environment include:
- ECAD/MCAD collaboration
- Design/Manufacturing
- Library and data management
Engineering productivity and efficiency
In general, the PCB design process is the same no matter the tool, the team, the company or the culture. The differentiator is the manner of execution, where engineering productivity and efficiency play a significant role. This enables you to:
- Predictably and reliably manage complex and high-capacity designs
- Utilize advanced interactive and automated design support to accelerate routine tasks
- Design correct-by-construction with a constraint-driven process
- Implement concurrent team design-driven cycle-time reduction
The best practices that can enable engineering productivity and efficiency include:
- Design automation
- Analog/digital/RF
- Concurrent design
- Design reuse
- Constraint driven design
- Advanced design
Digital-prototype driven verification
While product and design complexity increases, associated tools and process complexity are also rising. By integrating verification throughout PCB design – starting very early, long before physical prototypes – engineering teams can smooth the entire electronic systems design process and increase design quality through digital-prototype driven, shift-left verification and cross-domain modeling.
Shift-left verification in the design flow eliminates the specialist bottleneck using automated, integrated tools. Cost and time are saved by finding problems early, during design, minimizing design iterations and manufacturing respins.
The best practices that can enable digital-prototype-driven verification include a shift-left approach to:
- Schematic analysis
- Thermal analysis
- SI/PI
- AMS
- Manufacturability
Model-based systems engineering
From system requirements to implementation and manufacturing, a model-based systems engineering approach allows team members to view the entire system (electronic, electrical, mechanical, and software) and model pieces, defining and optimizing interconnectivity and traceability from one domain to the other.
The best practices that can enable system-level model-based engineering include:
- Multi-board
- Electrical/electronic
- FPGA/PCB optimization
- IC/Package/PCB
Electronic systems design companies have always depended on a value chain of suppliers and manufacturing services to bring successful products to market. Connecting the demand for a product with the supply of its necessary parts has never been more complex than it is today. The answer is to design for supply chain resilience.
The best practices that can enable supply chain resilience include:
- BOM validation
- Best-known part availability
- Validation of alternates
- Country: USA
- Regions: North America
- License Type: Proprietary
- Publisher: Bacon Software
Bacon Software produces both modular and complete solutions for your information needs. Purchase all of our products for a complete, seamlessly integrated information management system, or purchase just the modules you need in your shop. Our products provide the key components for printed circuit board manufacturing: Quoting, Shop Floor Tracking, Material Requirements Planning, Job Scheduling, Shipping, Purchasing, Invoicing, RMA management, and more. Running on your PC network and on mobile devices our products provide a complete business solution. We are willing to grow with you. If you have a need that we do not currently satisfy, let us know and we can work together to develop a solution tailored to your business. Bacon Software products provide a simple-to-use solution for the complete needs of your business.
Job Quote System
The Job Quote System (JQS) has been developed specifically for printed circuit board manufacturers. JQS “Speaks your Language” and lets you use your computer quickly calculate quotes. Set up pricing structures the way you price today. Define adders for special materials. Complete support for Off-Shore manufacturing.
Job Trac System
The Job Trac System (JTS) adds user-friendly shop floor control to your business. JTS is designed as a multi-user job tracking system for collecting and maintaining information in a job-oriented printed circuit board manufacturing environment. Supported on your local PC network and on mobile devices JTS provides real-time access and control for your business.
Job Accounting System
The Job Accounting System (JAS) is completely integrated with JTS to provide an easy-to-use tool for creating Invoices, Packing Slips, Purchase Orders, Receive Customer Payments, and more. JAS provides seamless links to Quickbooks, and Export/Import ability to other major accounting packages to provide a complete accounting solution.
ISO Management System
The ISO Management System keeps track of all detailed records and schedules required to run a comprehensive Quality System. The ISO Management System organizes your procedures, documents, policies, etc into a single easy-to-use interface. It provides easy access to documents for reviews and audits.
Customer Relationship Management (CRM)
Say goodbye to high-priced bloatware. Our product does all that others do with an easy-to-use interface that thinks the way you do. Easy Import from existing products and trade show results. Keep track of Contacts, Appointments, Tasks, Opportunities, Leads, Accounts, etc.Use it standalone or link to your existing Job Trac System customer file.
PCB Broker System
A hybrid version of JQS/JTS/JAS tailored for PCB brokers. Allows Job Quoting, Vendor Pricing review and vendor ordering using automated purchasing features. Complete manufacturing tracking of both drop ship and return to broker shipments. Integration with Bacon Softwares’ Job Accounting System for easy customer billing and payment processing
- Phone: 1.6509184587
- City: San Francisco
- State: CA
- Postal Code: 94104
- Country: USA
- Regions: North America
- License Type: Proprietary