KiCad isn't much use on your resume, if that's important to you.Though any significant amount of PCB design experience will be - PCB layout skills & experience is about much more than knowing a particular package.
Some EDA companies don’t like to give up their numbers at all. They know the game, and they don’t want to play - or they have only one product, so they can’t play the revenue shell game with their competitors. In those cases, the analysts make an educated guess based on publicly available information. Sometimes, that educated guess is wrong.
In the case of Zuken, that is exactly what happened. For a long period of time, analysts were ranking them #3 in the PCB market based on an educated guess of revenue partitioning from perpetual licenses, term licenses, support, and services. Zuken saw their own numbers, smelled something rotten, made an appeal, and won. Just like that - they jumped to #2 in PCB. This obviously was not a welcome development for Cadence, who then fell to #3. It was also not the best of news for Mentor Graphics, who suddenly had a smaller #1 number than before the “adjustment”.
KiCad isn't much use on your resume, if that's important to you.Though any significant amount of PCB design experience will be - PCB layout skills & experience is about much more than knowing a particular package.
Let's say that 2008 6.9% PCB market share is low and give 10% growth of the industry, that $75.5M market in 2014 should be around $133.75M, let's be generous and round it up to a cool $150M market.
Altium at 10% will mean they made $15M revenue on PCB and their reported revenue in 2014 was USD $70M (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Altium), so does that mean they make $55M on their FPGA effort?
Product Revenue 2014 2013 Change
Altium Designer Licence 25,301 23,469 8%
Altium Designer Subscriptions 33,586 27,541 22%
TASKING Licences 3,628 2,546 43%
TASKING Maintenance 3,273 2,824 16%
Other 5,324 5,674 (6%)
Total Revenue 71,112 62,054 15%
Source, page 4 2014 Annual Financial Report:Not my numbers, Wikipedia has Altium listed with $75.5M revenue in 2014 which by your slide is half of that at $37.5M
Then Gary Smith that prepared that other slide put altium at 10% meaning the market value for the whole industry in 2014 was $375M.
Not my numbers, Wikipedia has Altium listed with $75.5M revenue in 2014 which by your slide is half of that at $37.5M
Altium is in a more solid market position in seats than that 10% would dictate.
And what's this X2 and Atina product stuff?
http://www.altium.com/resources/investor-announcement/altium_-_ubs_conference.pdf
KiCad isn't much use on your resume, if that's important to you.Though any significant amount of PCB design experience will be - PCB layout skills & experience is about much more than knowing a particular package.
Yes, of course. But a lot of HR and recruitment droids don't know that.
Heck, even a lot of hiring engineering managers don't know that.
Have the wrong package on your resume and you may not even get your foot through the door.
Orcad PCB Designer is the exact same binary as Allegro, just feature restricted by a licence key. The old Orcad layout tool is dead.
It still puzzles me that Altium is the professional tool that gets all the discussion on the forum, while the Mentor and Cadence products are barely mentioned at all. It's especially odd given that Orcad is relatively affordable.
I can see in many big company's designs, they use Allegro/SPB. I do not see Altium often in huge designs by big companies.
On the other hand, Altium designs are usually seen in small to medium-large designs made by small companies or studios.
But this does not mean Altium is useless. IMHO, Altium is more ergonomic, and allows more abusing than the strict rules of some other packages, such as Eagle.
Probably I'm biased, because I've been using cracked Altium/Protel for over a decade since I was 12, and I spent ~$8k on its license just 1 year ago.
Hi,
I am just getting started with Kicad, and wondering whther it worth learning Altium? Since Kicad is free, has lots of tutorials, and also a lot of new features, does it really make sense to learn Altium? What is it that Altium has which you find really interesting?