
Clearly, Altium is gaining traction in the PCB design market.Īltium, Protel’s successor (well done on the re-branding Altium), is one of four software tools supported by ACDi, including PADS, Cadence Allegro and Mentor Expedition – what we call the “Big 3”. Today, our team supports Altium designs monthly, and almost 30% of all our new design clients are Altium users. If you had asked me three years ago to list all our PCB design clients who used Altium, I would have had to look it up. During a recent trip to Upstate New York I visited nine electronics OEMs in various markets from military to medical to transportation, and six were either using Altium CAD tools for their PCB design needs, or were migrating to Altium in the next year.
