Altium NEXUS (The original Atina) - Page 1
Forum section: electronics / general

author: logictom
author_rank: Unknown
timestamp: October 11, 2017, 04:54:42 am
content: So am I right in thinking this is a completely separate product to AD and will require a difference license?Is it AD with extra features on top, so one could load it up and use it as AD without all the Nexus features?Any word on what sort of price bracket this will be in?

author: lty1993
author_rank: Unknown
timestamp: October 11, 2017, 04:12:32 pm
content: I think it is more like an upgraded version of Upverter.

author: mikehoopes
author_rank: Newbie
timestamp: October 13, 2017, 05:58:35 pm
content: NEXUS is a re-branding of Altium Designer + Altium Vault, with advanced options that can be added (beginning with Collaboration, which is what we thought of as Atina), ostensibly through an extension. Altium Designer 18 will retain its branding, but is revamping its underlying code base in C#, x64. They appear to be dropping their FPGA programming environment extensions.It's a little confusing, in that Vault subscribers will have to be told about the name change, and that they won't be charged extra for it to be called NEXUS. Also, the name "Nexus" has been used previously by the Nexus 5001 Forum to refer to an extension of the JTAG standard, and I might guess that Altium has interfaced with that in their FPGA extensions, since they mention it in their documentation.

author: EEVblog
author_rank: Unknown
timestamp: October 13, 2017, 08:21:57 pm
content: Quote from: logictom on October 11, 2017, 04:54:42 amThat was the original idea, yes. Don't know details now though,but all the original investor presentations showed it as a seperate top tier product to compete with the biggies at the ultra high end.Any word on what sort of price bracket this will be in?If you have to ask then you can't afford it.

author: free_electron
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: October 27, 2017, 05:31:05 pm
content: Release 18 is IDENTICAL in terms of schematic / pcb ( they are the same codebase )There will be 2 flavors:Altium Designer 18 : for people that do not use Vault technology. Can not connect to a vault. Uses existing licence (if on subscription)Altium Nexus 18 : for people that do use a vault and project management.Vault is gone and replaced by Altium Nexus Server (which is essentially vault 4.0, but vault is a wrong word. it is much more beyond the database only). Nexus can connect in compatibility mode to Vault 3.0 (works perfectly fine. )The nexus server van be deployed on-site in a VM , or externally like on Amazon elastic cloud or at some other cloud provider. You need storage + cpu space. Find a host : create a VM, deploy , connect.Nexus server is not only a vault. It contains much more beyond simply the database . There is a whole slew of services running ( version control , integration with supply chain , what was called Athena , etc )As for licencing and pricing : i'm not at liberty to say.

author: D3f1ant
author_rank: Frequent Contributor
timestamp: October 27, 2017, 07:56:11 pm
content: Interesting. It would be nice if they reduced the price of AD accordingly as they stripping features...guess that won't happen.

author: ngjohnson
author_rank: Contributor
timestamp: November 05, 2017, 07:02:07 am
content: I started my EE carrier my freshman year using cadence, and the spice tool for homework assignments. I then discovered Eagle during a summer internship at a SF startup, and fell in love. I used it all the way up until another internship and got to use Altium 14. I'm now in Altuim 16.1, and while I could update have found that with each update something breaks. In the world of PCB design altuim is one of the best, but seriously the company is terrible, consider two flaws with the software, the price, and the 100 of bugs. The software crash all the time due to DXP stopping in it's tracks, and my newest frustration, how slow the schematic parts library has become. Switching between parts takes forever, like long enough for me to go fill up my cup of coffee every time. That's on an i7 4Ghz + titan GPU desktop that is also used for AI and training complex models on. Altium is terrible at aurally leveraging the compute resources to help it run better. If I wanted one thing from Altium, it is to focus on the core functionality creating parts, schematics, and complex PCB's. There is nothing better right now, and when working with large teams this Cloud stuffs seems nice, until you work at a large large company that will keep there data in a private network, and not want to use the cloud. All the parts at my internship where managed by one group, and the schematic capture was done by another rand lay out by another, all information was shared on the internal network in a SVN truck, it worked flawlessly and while it took two people full time to manage it, the amount of work we could do in a short time frame was amazing! Now Altium focus on making your software crash less, work smoother, faster, and have less features not more unused ones!