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Electronics => Beginners => Topic started by: Lunat1c on March 13, 2011, 07:54:30 am

Title: A!tium Designer
Post by: Lunat1c on March 13, 2011, 07:54:30 am

Hi,

Recently I had the chance to try out A!tium Designer and I must admit I found it quite nice to work with. However I realized that during the simulation process neither currents nor voltages can be measured by means of a probe (voltages can only be seen in waveforms, while I don't have a clue how to measure currents). Am I missing something obvious here?

Title: Re: A!tium Designer
Post by: Hypernova on March 15, 2011, 02:06:57 pm

Wow, you are the first person I know who actually use the simulation part of it. Everyone I know just use it for the PCB design.

Title: Re: A!tium Designer
Post by: neoone on March 20, 2011, 01:46:25 am

hmm I must admit that it's true that almost no one I know uses Altium as simulation soft even though it is a part of the CAD course on University. Any way as I remember it is similar to PSpice, maybe I'll check that if I have time.

Title: Re: A!tium Designer
Post by: EEVblog on March 20, 2011, 01:58:00 am

Quote from: Hypernova on March 15, 2011, 02:06:57 pm

Wow, you are the first person I know who actually use the simulation part of it. Everyone I know just use it for the PCB design.

What can I say other than ditto :->

Dave.

Title: Re: A!tium Designer
Post by: reagle on March 20, 2011, 06:54:02 pm

I dunno, the post-layout simulation features are nice, though I am still only planning to use them :)
Thinking it may come handy to tweak termination resistors on high speed memory buses for example

Title: Re: A!tium Designer
Post by: RayJones on March 20, 2011, 07:14:48 pm

Oh for a bare bones / bare price version.

Sounds like we are all paying a lot extra for fluff only a minority use!