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h5. Related Videos
{link:video}[Discover what's new in Altium Designer|http://www.altium.com/products/altium-designer/features/features_home.cfm|The Summer 09 release of Altium Designer maintains our commitment to remove barriers, continuously deliver new versions of our software, keep you plugged into new technology and trends, and to respond to user requests and feedback]{link}
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The Summer 09 release of Altium Designer continues the process of keeping you plugged into a continuous stream of new features and technologies. They are designed to make it easier for you to create your next generation electronics designs. And we continue to make Altium Designer available to as many electronics designers as possible.
Altium's unified design architecture brings together hardware, software and programmable hardware into a single application. This gives you the freedom to explore new design ideas across a project, across a whole team. Everyone has a single view of the design across the entire design process.
The Summer 09 release addresses a number of features and legacy issues requested by you. These include the addition of more mechanical layers for board layout, and enhanced definition of Net Classes on the schematic. This new release focuses on improving the assignment and management of testpoints, refining embedded software development, taking debugging of the embedded intelligence in your soft designs to a whole new level, and streamlining license management which will help you to get Altium Designer into the hands of more of your engineers.
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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h4. Enhanced Display of DRC Violations
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[Read more about the enhanced display of DRC violations...|Enhanced Display of DRC Violations]
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h4. Customization of Net Colors
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[Read more about the customization of net colors...|Customization of Net Colors]
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h4. Increased Mechanical Layers for Board Design
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[Read more about the additional mechanical layers...|Increased Mechanical Layers for Board Design]
h4. Plus...
{link}[Enhanced Glossing and 'Glossing Off' Mode|Interactive Routing - Glossing] {color:red}Available in SP1{color}{link}
{link}[PCB-Specctra Interface Improvements]{link}
{link}[3D Single Layer Mode]{link}
{link}[Improved Testpoint System|Testpoint System]{link}
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h4. Improved DirectX Rebuild Speed
The DirectX graphics engine for Altium Designer's PCB environment has been enhanced in this release, with respect to the rebuild speed. This has been achieved by not rebuilding unless absolutely necessary (a rebuild is seldom required) and optimizing the DirectX data filling routines. As a result, there is a 20% speed increase for scene rebuilds and toggling layer visibility no longer needs any rebuild at all.
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h4. Schematic Net Class Definition - by Area
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[Read more about net class definition by area on the schematic...|Defining Net Classes by Area on a Schematic]
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h4. Graphical Editing of Assembly Variants and Board-Level Annotations
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[Read more about graphical editing of assembly variants and board-level annotations...|Graphical Editing of Assembly Variants and Board-Level Annotations]
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h4. High-Level Software Development
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[Read more about C++ support in Altium Designer...|C++ Support in Altium Designer]
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h4. Wishbone Probe Instrument
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[Read more about the Wishbone Probe Instrument...|Wishbone Probe Instrument]
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h4. Connected FPGA Scripts
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[Read more about connected FPGA scripts...|Connected FPGA Scripts]
h4. Plus...
{link}[Automatic Firmware Updates (NanoBoard 3000)|NanoBoard 3000 - Firmware Updates] {color:red}Available in SP1{color}{link}
{link}[Improved Memory Management]{link}
{link}[Support for Multiple Software Platform Repositories|Multi-Repository Support (Software Platform)]{link}
{link}[New FPGA Peripheral Core Components]{link}
{link}[New Configurable Generic FPGA Logic Components]{link}
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h4. Memory Instrument
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[Read more about the Memory Instrument...|Memory Instrument]
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h4. On-Demand Licensing System
The Summer 09 release of Altium Designer heralds the addition of web-based, on-demand licensing to the software's overall licensing system. Tightly integrated with customer accounts through the Altium Portal, web-based on-demand license management allows a license to be used on any computer without the need to move license files or activate on each machine. This provides a global floating license capability - within the geographic scope of your license and the conditions set out in the EULA - without needing to implement your own server.
[Read more about On-Demand licensing...|Altium Designer Licensing System]
h4. Plus...
{link}[Option to Include Not Fitted Components in the BOM for a Variant|Inclusion of Not Fitted Components in a BOM] {color:red}Available in SP2{color}{link}
{link}[Option to Allow Connection with Altium or Remain Completely Disconnected|Connecting with Altium] {color:red}Available in SP1{color}{link}
{link}[NanoBoard Registration and Usage Tracking|Registered NanoBoards (Altium Account Management)] {color:red}Available in SP1{color}{link}
{link}[Browser-Based License Management & Reporting|Altium Account Manager]{link}
{link}[New-Look Home Page|Altium Designer Home Page]{link}
{link}[Altium Labs|Altium Labs]{link}
{link}[Private Server Licensing|Using a Private Server License]{link}
{link}[Opening Internet Links in an External Web Browser]{link}
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h4. Supplier Data Improvements
The Summer 09 release of Altium Designer expands the support for live linking to component supplier information. Two new suppliers are available -- Newark and Farnell. For any given Supplier Item found through a search in the *Supplier Search* panel, you can now import its parameters, data sheet links, pricing and stock information, as parameters of a target library component (SchLib, DbLib, SVNDbLib), or placed component on a schematics sheet. In addition, you can also create whole new components in a target library directly from Supplier Items! Provision is also made for converting the display of supplier pricing information into one of a number of supported currencies.
[Read more about live links to supplier data...|Live Links to Supplier Data]
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Many long standing legacy issues have been addressed in this release, further demonstrating our commitment and resolve to bring you the very best unified design solution to empower your innovation and bring your electronic products smoothly to market. For a complete list of fixed issues, refer to the [release notes|Release Notes for the Summer 09 release of Altium Designer].
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h2. See Also
{link}[Release Notes for the Summer 09 release of Altium Designer]{link}
{link}[Release Notes for the Summer 09 Service Pack 1 Release of Altium Designer]{link}
{link}[Release Notes for the Summer 09 Service Pack 2 Release of Altium Designer]{link} |