Altium 6.x pricing

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Rene

Does anyone know what Altium Designer 6.? costs these days? ========================================================== I sent an email and asked 'how much for the scematic and pc modules?'... its kind of like a restaurant with no prices on the menu... I didnt really understand the answer... you need the base module for $6k and some other module for $12k, but you cant use either one by itself?!?, so I think its $18k per seat this week.

Would you be so kind as to cut and paste the answer you got and post it? Thanks!

You wouldn't say that if you had ever done it ;)

Bob

Thanks Bob. Altium - and before that ProTel's - marketing crew have always been smoke and mirror operators. That's why I was hoping to get a straight answer from outside of their sales channel. Did the 18K include the 'nano-board' FPGA development module?

Bob

Probably - that's a VERY expensive item, but it will certainly be very useful to some. We likely won't be getting it anytime soon.

Altium costs us ~ $450 per seat for the annual upgrade. One of the Institute's licenses is a floating network seat. IIRC the initial cost for that was about $4.5k, so given our 50% academic discount, figure ~ $9k list.

OK Thanks. That's about what I spent four years ago at my previous employer for Altium Designer IV. If it's still in that range, I think I can justify the expenditure.

Bob

It wasn't that way for Protel, at least up to 99SE. You basically got everything for $4500 or $5000, IIRC. Whatever the price was (I did a full upgrade for $1500), you got the schematic editor, spice simulator, pld design, and of course Protel in the bundle. It also came with the Camtastic gerber editor, which was and is still nice.

I hardly ever used anything but Protel & Camtastic in the bundle. I still do use Protel 99SE & Camtastic. Protel is easy to learn and use (very intuitive). It doesn't have everything that some of the new packages have, but then I don't think those features are worth the silly prices various vendors charge. I mean, how much does and sch editor and pcb layout tool need to cost? I think $1k is a lot. Of course, I'm doing boards and only boards.

OK. As of yesterday, The current Qty 1 price (US) is

Foundation License + Board Implementation (Schematic and PCB) = $10k Unified Electronic Product Development System License (Schematic,PCB + FPGA) = $12K

Annual maintenance is 20% of purchase price.

I didn't ask for a quote for just the "Foundation" bit

Bob

I actually did it and am using it. But since I took the upgrade path, I have no idea how much a new license costs.

Rene