eparting from seasonally-themed release naming and instead utilizing a streamlined, no-fuss numbering format, the latest release of Altium Designer – Altium Designer 10, or AD10 – continues the process of keeping you plugged into a continuous stream of new features and technologies, designed to make it easier for you to create your next generation electronics designs. Altium's unified design architecture is renowned for bringing together hardware, software and programmable hardware into a single application, giving you the freedom to explore new design ideas across not only a project, but across an entire team – everyone has a single view of the design across the entire design process. Once in a while during the development of a software solution, an evolutionary jump is experienced, a jump that raises the bar for that solution, in terms of what it can do and offer its users, to the next level. The arrival of Release 10 heralds such an evolutionary jump for Altium Designer – a generational shift in the software and its capabilities if you will, on a scale not seen since the DXP platform was unveiled and the design experience delivered as a single, unified model. This quantum leap is marked with an impressive and comprehensive collection of new technologies aimed at not only revolutionizing the way in which you manage your design information, but also automating the board design release process. AD10, along with an Altium Vault Server – a partner solution from Altium – provides a Design Data Management System that effectively identifies and solves many of the problems that conspire to slow-down the design, release and manufacturing processes. Smart data management without stifling creativity and innovation. Forming part of this data management solution is a system for component management that offers true lifecycle tracking and dependency checking of parts, as well as a high-integrity board design release process that validates and packages your design and manufacturing data – at the touch-of-a-button and with no error-prone manual interaction. With AD10, you are firmly in the driving seat, with the power to develop and manage your electronic products through their entire lifecycle – from concept and design, through prototype and production, to deprecation and obsolescence – with complete confidence and assurance. We're excited about these inspired new technologies, in addition to a host of other new features developed for this release and we're sure that you'll be excited too! And with a new installation and content delivery system in place, jumping on board with Altium Subscription gives you access to new cool features and updates as and when they leave development. Delivered as optional plugins, you no longer have to wait for a major (or minor) release. Instead, a constant stream of updates and functionality can get the technologies and solutions you need in to your hands in a far more expedient time-frame – a content stream if you will.