Altium Develop Integrations

Requirements Portal by Altium is a requirements management and verification tool integrated directly into Altium’s solutions, including Altium Develop, Altium Agile Teams and Altium Agile Enterprise. It enables engineering teams developing hardware products and embedded systems to create, store, and manage formalized requirements and link them to designs and verification data. Each requirement is traceable and connected to upstream system definitions and downstream design and verification artifacts, such as schematics, PCB layouts, BOMs, and test cases, providing visibility from system design through implementation, verification, handoff, and certification. This helps teams reduce rework, avoid misalignment across disciplines, and simplify compliance activities.

Power Analyzer provides you with a simple and intuitive way to visualize the voltage distribution as well as the current density, the direction of the current, and the "hot spots". The results are displayed directly in the Altium Designer PCB editor, so you can see how your power grids interact with the rest of the design. Quickly identify and resolve your DC voltage and current density problems during the plate design process without prior knowledge of DC analysis. Design with confidence, knowing that you have accurate energy measurements for your designs. Power Analyzer can interactively measure voltage, and current density, or track current at any point, at one end, or differential between two points, within Altium Designer. Visualize the results and make adjustments as you design. Configurable HTML reports make it easy to record simulation activity, with voltage and current margins, power consumption data, and custom screenshots.

Altium’s PDN Analyzer tool integrates directly with Altium Designer so you can easily troubleshoot and detect issues like insufficient or excessive copper, uncontrolled voltage drops, marginal voltage at critical power pins, copper islands or peninsulas and similar issues that may be present with the power system in your PCB design. PDN refers to the power system on printed circuit boards for active circuits. This system includes all interconnections from the voltage regulator module and the metallization of pads and die on integrated circuits that are used to supply and return power current. IC supply voltage limits must be met across the entire length of the power delivery network. Accurately validating your power budget means considering minimum and maximum device limits, worst-case voltage drops, and combined return-path currents. PDN Analyzer shows you exactly where these problems arise.