With over 30 years of experience designing and manufacturing advanced analog sensor solutions, AustriaMicrosystems (AMS) relies heavily on a unified electronics design approach for the success of their development process. As their customer base feels the pressure of delivering more complex products in shorter time frames, they look to AMS to deliver component reference designs, application samples, and sensor technologies that work right the first time.

Unfortunately, getting designs to work right the first time was something that AMS struggled to achieve. Errors in the development process began to trickle down to their customer base, creating an urgency for AMS to analyze their current design solution to see where the bottleneck resided. These issues stemmed from AMS having to rely on multiple sets of software for their in-house electronic design.

From data conversion and exporting issues to corrupted databases, AMS’s existing systems were doing more harm than good. As time drew on, and issues began to mount for AMS, it became clear that a unified design solution was needed that integrated their entire workflow under one common thread. 

That’s when they discovered Altium.

Connecting Disconnected Design Systems

AMS migrated to Altium Designer for all of their in-house PCB designs, allowing them to unify their electronics design workflow and streamline their entire development and manufacturing process.

Altium Designer integrated AMS’s schematic design and PCB layout processes into one seamless workflow, allowing AMS to create PCB designs faster and more efficiently. Project hierarchies now became easy to manage, and engineers were able to easily link between block diagrams and project hierarchies.

Visualizing board layouts in 3D allowed AMS to optimize the placement of discrete components on their PCBs, keeping form factors as compact as possible and up-to-date with the latest industry-standard trends. Corrupted databases and conversion difficulties were completely eliminated now that engineers did not have to import or export files between software.