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. — Why choose Requirements Portal? Unlike traditional requirements management systems that are rigid, expensive and maintained by dedicated admins, Requirements Portal offers an easy-to-use and easy-to-learn alternative that delivers a fast return on investment for engineering teams. Compared to document-based approaches that are near-impossible to scale beyond a few hundred requirements, Requirements Portal helps you scale across complex products and multiple projects with thousands of requirements. — Requirements Portal is the successor to Valispace, created after Altium acquired the company and integrated its technology into the Altium ecosystem. Requirements Portal is included in Altium Develop, and the starting price includes unlimited collaborators.

Power Analyzer offers an easy-to-use interface that allows you to visualize voltage distribution, current density, the direction of current flow, and identify "hot spots." The outcomes are directly integrated into the Altium Designer PCB editor, enabling you to observe how your power grids interact with the overall design. This tool allows for the swift identification and resolution of DC voltage and current density issues during the PCB design stage, even if you lack prior experience in DC analysis. You can design with assurance, as it provides precise energy measurements for your projects. Power Analyzer enables interactive measurements of voltage and current density or tracks current at specific points, whether at a single location or differentially between two points within Altium Designer. You can visualize the results to make necessary adjustments throughout your design process. Moreover, the configurable HTML reports facilitate easy documentation of simulation activities, including voltage and current margins, power consumption statistics, and custom screenshots, ensuring you have comprehensive records of your design efforts. This functionality not only enhances design accuracy but also streamlines the overall development workflow.

Altium's PDN Analyzer tool integrates with Altium Designer. This allows you to easily troubleshoot issues such as insufficient or excessive copper or uncontrolled voltage drops. You can also detect marginal voltage at critical power points, copper islands or peninsulas, and other issues that could be present in your PCB power system. PDN is the power system for active circuits on printed circuit boards. This includes all interconnections between the voltage regulator module, the metallization pads and die on integrated devices that are used for supply and return power. The entire length of the power delivery network must meet the IC supply voltage limits. Validating your power budget accurately means taking into account the minimum and maximum device limits, worst case voltage drops, combined return-path currents, and other factors. PDN Analyzer will show you exactly where these problems are.