Altium Designer will be used by students in a broad group of engineering classes to expand their skills in circuit design, analysis and test. Real-life applications will include schematic generation and simulation of complicated circuits, analysis of Altium reference designs in a lab setting, and a fourth-year capstone project in which students design their own custom printed circuit board.

"We are very excited to offer our students the ability to use Altium Designer," said Hugh Chesser, York University Associate Lecturer of Space Engineering in a press release. "I believe the integration of the different tools is the future trend for ECAD design and so am eager to update our curriculum to include it."

"Altium is continuing to win over academic engineering programs with its easy-to-use, unified electronics design solution that lets engineers and students move to a 'soft design' methodology as part of a much broader, holistic design perspective and approach," said Gerry Gaffney, Altium's Regional CEO for the Americas.

Altium also counts Massachusetts Institute of Technology, University of Toronto, Wisconsin University, Aachen University and Tokyo Institute of Technology among the more than 900 universities that employ Altium software.