New Features in the Winter 09 release of Altium Designer

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The Winter 09 release of Altium Designer brings significant new and enhanced features to unify the design process, helping you create a real return on your innovation. It's the next phase in our commitment to update our solution every six months, and to continuallly introduce the features you need to create next-generation designs. Not only will you deliver more innovation in less time, but you can also explore design possibilities with a freedom unmatched by any other design system. The Winter 09 release focuses on streamlining design flows, simplifying data management, enabling rapid prototyping and concept exploration, and promoting better team collaboration - all intended to help you get your product to market faster.

We're excited about the new features and technologies we're developing for this release and the reaction they are receiving, and we're sure that you'll be excited too!

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Field Instrument Dashboard using FPGA-based soft instruments

FPGA-based soft instruments are a powerful way of embedding debug tools inside FPGAs. With the Summer 08 release of Altium Designer we extended this to allow custom instruments to be created and programmed into FPGAs for any purpose. To coincide with the Winter 09 release of Altium Designer, we are extending this even further and providing a customized, standalone application, specifically designed to allow viewing of custom controls – the Altium Instrument Dashboard.

Powerful new Interactive Routing features

Design Release Management

Live Links to Supplier Data

Full Stackup Definition available for vias

Real-time Manufacturing Rule Checking

Performance and efficiency upgrade to PCB graphics system

Cadstar Importer

Plus more great features

PCB 3D Orthographic Projection
Configurable Generic Library
Enhanced Devices View
Enhanced PCB Modeling
Board Insight improvements - FPGA Information
Improved Rule - Broken Net Constraint
Version Control Improvements
Library Search Improvements
Global Knowledge Repository
Improved OpenBus Documents
Place or Reposition Components from the PCB Panel

Upgrading to the Winter 09 release of Altium Designer

Release Notes for the Winter 09 release of Altium Designer

Release Notes for the Winter 09 Service Pack 1 release of Altium Designer

Release Notes for the Winter 09 Service Pack 2 release of Altium Designer

Release Notes for the Winter 09 Service Pack 3 release of Altium Designer

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