If you’ve already got Altium installed, great! Just make sure to update to Altium Designer 23 so that we don’t run into any version-specific bugs. Installation is pretty simple, you’ll have to sign in with your freshly-minted Altium account, and default settings are fine for us. Go ahead and download the installer from the site, you’ll have to login to make the links active. This is normally a Windows/x86-only program, but we’ve taken some steps to make it work for everyone! As a result your steps will vary a little depending on what operating system you’re on. The second step is to install Altium Designer. We’ll be spending a lot of time here, so we’ve also linked to it from the front page of the course website! Install Altium Designer We’ll add ya’ll to our Altium workspace on the morning of the 10th, which you should be able to access here. Please do this by midnight on January 9th. Make sure to use your kerberos for this, this makes it way easier for us to link class registration to your Altium accounts. This will give you an educational license, which is free as long as you’ve got an. Run over here and sign up for an Altium account with your MIT email/kerberos.

This will make more sense as we set it up, for now just buckle in and run through the steps below :) And of course email us at if you run into anything strange! Register for an Altium Account

The former is the software you’ll actually use to design boards, and the latter is a workspace for storing, sharing, and keeping track of designs. We’ll be using Altium for the course, which has two parts: Altium Designer, and Altium 365.

Altium educational license