Concentrating on core PCB design technology, Altium Designer 16 now supports flex PCB and rigid flex PCB design, including schematic capture, 3D PCB layout, evaluation, and programmable design– all in a solitary unified system. The improved software allows for smaller sized packaging of electronic layouts, which causes reduce price of products and PCB production, as well as increased longevity.

This release of Altium’s PCB design software application adds the capability to manage rigid flex PCB designs, including innovative rigid flex PCB layer-stack monitoring. Rigid-flex lets you take circuit components placed on a rigid board and connect them using flex PCB circuits that could flex or fold to fit any room. It also supports embedded PCB parts, enabling better design miniaturization by placing common parts on an inner layer of the circuit board throughout fabrication.

Various other improvements to Altium Designer 16 streamline high-speed PCB design rules, such as automated and led change of differential-pair width-gap settings to make certain set resistance is maintained. Furthermore, renovations to the PCB Editor’s via stitching consist of the ability to constrict the via-stitching pattern to a user-defined area.

Prices for Altium Developer 16 beginning at $7245, including a 1 year membership.