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Altium donates licenses of its Altium Designer unified electronics design software to FIRST (For Inspiration and Recognition of Science and Technology) for use in its annual robotics design competition
Altium releases a new plug-in daughter board hosting a Xilinx® Virtex™-4 high-performance FPGA
Altium launches its Altium Innovation Station in a worldwide roll-out
Altium works with the University of New South Wales’ Gifted Education Research Resource and Information Centre (GERRIC) to introduce high-school students to the future of electronics design

Altium strengthens worldwide leadership with the appointment of a new Senior Vice President and General Manager Americas, with similar appointments made in China and Australia.
Altium releases Altium Designer 6.8, which includes world-first PCB visualization and 300 new features and enhancements
NASA Johnson Space Center standardizes on Altium Designer
Altium Designer adds support for SIMetrix/SIMPLIS simulation engines
Altium adds LatticeSC/M FPGA support to Altium Designer
Altium Designer adds design translation capabilities to support DxDesigner files.
Altium sponsors the University of Toronto Institute for Aerospace Studies Space Flight Laboratory for the development of its CanX satellites
Altium expands operations in Europe –teams set up in Paris and Munich
Altium Designer language support expanded
Altium Designer 6.7 released
Altium announces support for Cyclone III
Cessna standardizes on Altium Designer
Altium showcases new NanoBoard-NB2 at Embedded World 2007
Altium Designer wins IEC DesignVision Award at DesignCon 2007!
Altium Designer honored as DesignVision 2007 award finalist

Altium Designer wins Elektronik product of the year award
Altium Designer wins Embedded Control Europe (ECE) Gold Reader Award
Altium announces release of TASKING VX-toolset for C166/ST10
Altium Designer adds Lattice MachXO support
Altium announces new President & Chief Operating Officer
Altium releases TASKING VX-toolset for Altera’s Nios II embedded processors
National Semiconductor standardizes globally on Altium Designer
Altium Designer 6.3 released
Release of Altium Designer Viewer Edition
Altium Designer adds support for Altera Nios II processor
Altium unveils NanoBoard-NB2 and demonstrates new unified hardware/software compiler technology at ESC 2006
Altium releases new TASKING VX-toolset for ARM
Altium Designer includes support for AMCC 405 PowerPC-based processors
Altium Designer 6.0 supports FPGA system development with ARM®-based processors
Altium Designer includes full support for embedded designs using the Xilinx® MicroBlaze™ FPGA-based soft processor
Altium Designer features strengthened FPGA-PCB co-design

Altium Designer choses as a finalist in the EDN Innovations Awards
Altium Designer named in EDNs hot 100 products of 2005
Altium Designer 6.0 released
Design data management capabilities of Altium Designer enhanced with launch of two-level design viewing strategy – Smart PDF with customized Wizard feature and Altium Designer Viewer Edition license
Launch of Altium Designer
Altium selects Verific’s HDL Component Software for Verilog support in Nexar
Altium donates to the University of Tasmania Foundation for the development and completion of two radio astronomy research projects
Altium reorganized the Board of Directors with changes to the Office of Chief Executive
Altium releases TASKING M16C toolset v3.1r1
Altium releases TASKING TriCore VX-toolset v2.2

Altium releases Nexar 2004– the industry’s first comprehensive, vendor-independent system for developing complete processor-based digital systems on FPGAs
Altium releases CircuitStudio 2004– a universal front-end engineering system for both board-level and programmable logic design
Altium releases Protel 2004
Altium releases CAMtastic 2004

Altium opens Chinese representative office and announces a strengthened Chinese reseller network
Altium releases TASKING 68K v10.0
Altium releases TASKING R8C toolset
Altium releases TASKING StarCore v1.2
Altium releases TASKING DSP56xxx v3.5
Altium releases TASKING TriCore VX-toolset
Altium releases CAMtastic DXP + free CAM viewer
Altium releases TASKING C166/ST10 v8.0

Opening of Protel Training Center at Swinburne University, VIC, Australia
Protel wins “Product of the Year 2001” as voted by Elektronik readers
Altium releases TASKING TriCore v1.5
Altium releases TASKING StarCore v1.1
European headquarters consolidated into Karlsruhe, Germany office
Altium acquires Hoschar AG’s EDA business, Germany’s largest EDA tools distributor
Altium releases Protel DXP– the first single application to address entire board-design process
Altium releases P-CAD 2002
25 year anniversary of TASKING brand
Altium releases nVisage product line – industry-first multi-dimensional design capture tool

Altium releases P-CAD 2001
Altium commences strategic partnership with Atmel Corporation
Protel wins “Product of the Year 2000” as voted by Elektronik readers
Altium Netherlands office established
Altium acquires TASKING Group of Companies
Altium commences partnership with WebQuote Software – enables customer access to online parts quotation feature
Subsidiaries unite as Altium
Protel International Limited becomes Altium Limited
Altium releases TASKING M16C v2.1 released
Altium releases TASKING C166/ST10 v7.5 released
Altium releases TASKING TriCore v1.4 released
Altium releases Release of PADs to P-CAD translator
Altium releases Situs – the industry’s first Topological Autorouter

Acquisition of ACCEL Technologies, Inc
Launch of P-CAD product line
Launch of CircuitMaker product line
Protel Library Development Center achieves ISO 9001 Certification
Acquisition of Metamor Inc (FPGA synthesis technology)
Acquisition of Innovative CAD Software (Computer Aided Manufacturing [CAM] technology)
Launch of CAMtastic product line – entry into CAM market

Acquisition of Accolade Design Automation (began selling PeakFPGA products) – entry into FPGA design & synthesis market
Acquisition of VHDL simulation technology from Green Mountain
Launch of Protel 99 – on the Design Explorer platform
Successful completion of Initial Public Offering on the Australian Share Market
Launch of Protel 99 SE
Increased reseller network to sell to 73 countries worldwide

Launch of Protel 98 – the first product to include and integrate all five core board-design tools
Acquisition of IDK business (Swiss distributor)
Acquisition of Techspert business (Japanese distributor)
Acquisition of signal integrity technology from INCASES
Acquisition of MicroCode Engineering (CircuitMaker product)
Opening of European sales & support office in Switzerland
Opening of Japanese sales & support office

Altium develops technology platform with Client/Server architecture for integration of EDA design tools (foundation for Design Explorer technology unification platform used by Altium’s current products)

Altium launches Protel for Windows – the world's first Microsoft Windows–based PCB design system