Altair® Unified Design Environment

Hardware Design Data Management Ecosystem

The Altair® Unified Design Environment (UDE) is a complete hardware design ecosystem — one hub for electrical engineers, PCB designers, CAE and MCAD engineers, and reviewers — with transparent data access, IP protection, and the highest security standards. Altair UDE combines parts management, bill of materials (BOM) management, and design management in one easy solution that integrates with your existing IT infrastructure. It includes vendor-agnostic support for multi-CAD environments and enables automated workflows that make it easy to pull everything together in one place with automatic schematic, PCB, and BOM verification and review.

Why Altair UDE?

Automated Verification, Review, and Job Scheduling

Automate your workflows in Altair UDE and say goodbye to manual review. Compare and verify schematics, PCB specifications and designs, and BOMs automatically. Schedule and execute bulk tasks in a native cloud-based environment, on the server or on your PC.

Collaborative Data Sharing

Altair UDE ensures everything in your company’s library data is consistent, with no redundancy. ECAD and MCAD engineers can work in their own domains and take advantage of seamless bidirectional data exchange with version control to change, preview, accept, and reject schematics and designs.

Altair UDE enables users to consolidate design information and manage data in multi-CAD design environments.

Multi-CAD Environment Support and Design Reuse

With Altair UDE, users can consolidate design information from various ECAD sources and manage data for all your company’s hardware design objects. With commercial part repositories, there’s no need to create parts from scratch; you can reuse proven elements from different sources.

Key Features

Intelligent Parts Management

Flexible, standardized parts classification prevents duplication and reduces purchasing costs. Users can search easily and manage the entire part life cycle.

Secure Design Management

Secure, integrated, system-wide design data management enables users to generate consistent output, easily manage revisions and history, and reuse design data.

Automatic BOM Management

Automatically generating BOMs through ECAD design check-in prevents human error and enables easy review, editing, revision comparison, and variant management.

CAD-Agnostic Design Environment

Integrates with multiple electronic design automation (EDA) vendors so all repositories, including commercial libraries, are under one hood.

Easy-to-Configure Workflow Management

Multiple workflows across engineering domains enable low- and no-code configuration to capture all process dependencies.

Integration with Corporate, IT, and Business Infrastructure

Users, roles, and rights management integrate smoothly into your company’s ERP, MRP, and PLM systems and IT infrastructure with OpenID Connect authentication.