Altium in the News
October 10, 2008: Designing Successfully
New Electronics reports on Ferranti Technologies and their design success with Altium Designer.
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October 10, 2008: Design Solutions for Tomorrows Engineers
Altium’s Marcelle Douglas writes for Chip Design Magazine on the future of electronics design solutions.
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September 25, 2008: The Shaughnessy Report: Emma Lo Russo on Altium's New China Strategy
Altium President Emma Lo Russo talks to PCB 007 about the company's recent announcement of amnesty for illegal users of its EDA software in China.
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September 11, 2008: Viewpoint: Engineers need to move up the design value chain
Altium’s Marcelle Douglas shares her thoughts with the readers of EE Times on how engineers can maintain product differentiation.
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September 3, 2008: Celebrating China's Innovation in Electronics Design
PCB 007 publishes Emma LoRusso's opinion piece discussing the future of design in China and the opportunities it presents.
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August 15, 2008: Innovation - Design Focus Redefined
Rob Evans, Technical Editor, Altium writes for SMT Magazine on how programmable devices, such as FPGAs are changing the electronics design industry.
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July 25, 2008: Altium moves to tighten its grip on China market
The Rust reports on Altium’s new program to legitimise use of its electronics design software in China.
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July 23, 2008: Great firewall of China
Manly Daily reporter, Sue Hoban reports on Altium’s large-scale investment in China to turn around unlicensed use of its electronics design solutions.
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July 23, 2008: Converting China’s electronics industry
Australian PACE magazine reports on Altium’s plan to accelerate legalised use of Altium Designer and boost the teaching of unified electronics in Chinese universities.
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July 22. 2008: Altium seeks millions by legitimising Chinese pirates
National Australian newspaper, The Australian reports on Altium’s agreement with the Chinese Government to legitimise pirate users.
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July 9, 2008: “Altium Limited: PCB Design in 3D, Easy Deployment”
Jason McDonald, editor of eg3.com interviewed Rob Irwin on the benefits of unified design and how’s Altium’s latest version is allowing mechanical and electronics designers to collaborate in real time.
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July 9, 2008: “Software focus drives Altium’s ambition”
Colin Holland from EDA Design talks to Nick Martin, founder and CEO of Altium, on finding its niche in unified design and how FPGA technology is paving the future for not only Altium, but the electronic design industry.
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June 11, 2008: “From the editor: The Human BOM”
Meredith Courtemanche, editor of SMT Magazine interviewed Rob Irwin on the significance of Altium’s unified technology and the latest suite of features to be incorporated into Altium Designer Summer 08.
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June 9, 2008: “toolZONE Products for the week of June 9, 2008”
En-genius published an in-depth review on the latest features and technology to be incorporated in Altium Designer Summer 08.
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June 4, 2008: “Altium’s Rob Irwin Talks MCAD”
Listen to Andy Shaughnessy (PCB 007) interview Rob Irwin on how Altium’s latest ECAD-MCAD collaboration technology is breaking down the barriers of electronics design.
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April 30, 2008: “Altium tops PCB layout poll”
Altium Designer has been voted the most popular provider of PCB layout tools in a poll open to EE Times Europe readers.
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April 15, 2008: “Silicon Valley Chips Powering Next Generation Inventions”
Watch Altium on the San Jose NBC evening news in a segment featuring the Embedded Systems Conference.
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March, 2008: "FPGAs ‘made easy’’"
Read Elektor’s article about how easy embedded systems are designed using Altium Designer and its newly introduced C-Compiler feature.
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March 1, 2008: "FPGA Deployment Systems – Altium ‘makes it easy’"
Read what eg3.com have to say on the Altium Innovation Station - the combination of Altium Designer and the Altium desktop NanoBoard for a design solution from conception to deployment.
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February 5, 2008: "DesignCon Steps it up – Eye Candy for the Digital Designer"
Read this compelling review by Kevin Morris, editor of IC Design and Verification Journal on DesignCon and the recent launch of the Altium Innovation Station.
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February 5, 2008: "Altium launch Innovation Station featuring the Desktop NanoBoard"
The Altium Innovation Station brings together Altium Designer and the Altium NanoBoard to create the ultimate electronics design and deployment environment – one that puts innovation in your hands. Read what Clive Maxfield, Editor, Programmable Logic, DesignLine has to say.
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December 17, 2007: "Local Talent Pool Keeps Altium Swimming Along"
Read a profile on Altium and its expansion in the US, and COO Emma Lo Russo, in the San Diego Business Journal.
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November 29, 2007: "Altium Goes 3D - Board Design Can Be Fun"
Read this compelling review by Kevin Morris, FPGA and Structured ASIC Journal of the many new features and enhancements in Altium Designer 6.8.
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November 26, 2007: "Altium makes it ‘real’ foe PCB/FPGA designers"
Read Clive Maxfield’s EE productCenter review of Altium Designer 6.8. The article explores several of the breakthrough features, including the world first 3D PCB visualization engine that was introduced in this latest release.
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October 31, 2007: “One small step for man, one giant leap for Frenchs Forest”
Altium wins Frenchs Forest a spot on the IT map. Sue Hoban, Business editor for The Manly Daily reported on Altium’s recent sale to NASA’s Johnson Space Center, beating software from competitors 15 times its size.
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October 30, 2007: “Sydney company’s space link”
In a recent report, Seven Network News journalist Sarah Cummings told of Altium’s sale to NASA’s Johnson Space Center (JSC). In what is considered a major win for the local IT sector, Altium Designer will be used to design all the electronics found in both manned and unmanned missions.
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October 30 , 2007: “Altium’s altitude attitude”
Sydney Morning Herald ‘Next’ editor, Nick Miller reported on Altium’s recent win with NASA’s Johnson Space Center (JSC) – a deal that will see Altium Designer help NASA send astronauts back to the moon by 2020.
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October 29, 2007: “Sydney company in software deal with NASA”
Listen to David Mark from Australia’s ABC Radio National talk to Emma Lo Russo and Ben Wells on how Altium Designer will help NASA’s Johnson Space Center (JSC) create electronics for its space shuttle and International Space Station programs.
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October 11, 2007: “Changing the way design is done”
The boundaries between hard and soft domains have blurred. So what does this mean for design engineers in terms of creating a unified design approach? Altium technical writer, Marcelle Douglas challenged readers of New Electronics with this question in her viewpoint article, ‘Changing the way design is done’.
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June 19, 2007: “Altium's Alternative: Turning System Design Inside Out”
Kevin Morris from FPGA and Structured ASIC Journal talks about the NanoBoard-based prototypes and how to morph them into final, cost-reduced, form-factor-adjusted production boards using the unique features of Altium Designer’s board design software.
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March 19, 2007: “Take control of design data management”
Rob Evans, Technical Specialist, Altium Limited, offers EETimes readers advice on how to maintain design data integrity throughout the electronic product development process..
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October 26, 2006: Making FPGAs work for embedded developers - Part 2
IIn the second of a Two Part Series published by embedded.com, Rob Irwin, Product Manager, Altium Limited, proposes that the design of programmable devices must be better integrated with embedded design flows in order for the full potential of FPGA-based ‘soft’ system design to be realized in the embedded world.
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October 18, 2006: Making FPGAs work for embedded developers: Part 1
In the first of a Two Part Series published by embedded.com, Rob Irwin, Product Manager, Altium Limited, looks at the unfulfilled potential of today's programmable device technology and what is limiting them from being fully embraced by embedded developers.
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August 26, 2006: "A Mile in Their Shoes - Altium's Engineering Empathy"
Altium Designer was recently put to the test when our own software developers used it to design, build and manufacture NanoBoard-NB2 for demonstrating at ESC 2006, San Jose. Kevin Morris of FPGA and Programmable Logic Journal tracks the impressive but practical benefits this process delivered along the way.
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May 5, 2006: Altium’s unrivalled passion for design innovation showcased!
In a series of articles addressing the challenges of stimulating long-term innovation, Kevin Morris of FPGA and Programmable Logic Journal profiles Altium in "Innovations Big and Small" and our unrivalled passion for creating new technologies to improve our products and help make our customers successful in every way.
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May 5, 2006: Industry opinion: Death of the Hardware Engineer
Kevin Morris of FPGA and Programmable Logic Journal recently posted an industry-opinion article, highly relevant and very much in harmony with Altium’s view of the future of electronics design. The article talks of the imminent fall of the hardware engineer and the rise of a new breed of “super-systems-engineer”.
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December 16, 2005: The hot 100 products of 2005
Altium Designer has been chosen as one of the best 100 Products for 2005 by the readers of EDN Magazine. This result demonstrates the increasing awareness of Altium Designer as the only single, unified application that provides all the capabilities necessary for complete electronic product development and reflects the excitement in electronics engineering community by the new system design opportunities it open up – opportunities previously unavailable to them through traditional EDA and embedded solutions.
View the Hot 100 results at http://www.edn.com/article/CA6290449.html
More on Altium Designer
August 18, 2005: Who are you buying your EDA software from?
Following an interview with Kayvan Oboudiyat on June 29, 05, Mike Santarini of EDN reported in a very positive and lengthy article on the efforts of EDA industry to crack down on EDA software piracy.
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July 22, 2005 CEO viewpoint: The soft science of FPGAs:
Programmable logic represents a fundamental shift for the industry and designers, and Nick Martin of Altium says their complexity should not be a barrier. Electronics Weekly (UK) online published Nick Martin's viewpoint "Back to the future – using today's skills to build tomorrow’s designs". The viewpoint was entitled "CEO viewpoint: The soft science of FPGAs" and first appeared online on July 22, 2005.
View the full article at www.electronicsweekly.co.uk/Articles/2005/07/22/35891/CEOviewpointThesoftscienceofFPGAs.htm
February 1, 2005: “Unconventional Widsom from Altium's Founder”
Kevin Morris of FPGA and Programmable Logic Journal, talks to Altium Founder and CEO, Nick Martin about how Altium is changing the FPGA and Board Design landscape with their unconventional approach.
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June 7, 2005: Altium Designer Changes the Rules
FPGA and Programmable Logic Journal takes an in-depth look at Altium Designer, describing it as the "Microsoft Office" of EDA - a complete set of electronic design capabilities facilitating every part of the design process. The author, Kevin Morris, claims that fully integrated tool suites like Altium Designer may soon "replace the point-tool-based design environments prevalent today" and its use could "change the nature of the typical electronic product design process."
View the full article at www.fpgajournal.com