Case Study: Spectrum Integrity achieves streamlined ultra-high-speed RF PCB design and faster customer reviews with Altium Designer

Spectrum Integrity - Customer Case Study

Spectrum Integrity is an engineering firm that designs ultra-high-speed digital, RF, and microwave PCBs operating from 20 to 110+ GHz. Their proprietary, “outside the box” design process needed to interoperate with standard component libraries and client review workflows, but their legacy schematic tools prevented layout-schematic synchronization, cross-probing, easy exports, viewers, and robust version control, making reviews and iteration slow and disjointed.

They adopted Altium Designer, customizing it for RF and ultra-high-speed work to gain synchronized schematics, integrated supplier libraries, automated BOMs, Gerber export/import for field solvers, easier custom footprints, real-time split power plane updates (saving about 75% of that task), and strong version control plus a free viewer and PDF output. As a result, nearly all designs now use Altium, engineers became productive quickly, customer reviews are faster and clearer, and automated Gerber generation has reduced errors and saved time.

Spectrum Integrity

Michael Ingham

Director of engineering