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US Seminar Series – register today!

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See first hand how Altium Designer 6 can get your product to market faster with advanced features such as comprehensive data management and PLM integration in a unified design environment.

The future of design automation

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When does too much automation in electronic product development become counter-productive?

Sharpening the eye on space

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US defense contractor harnesses Altium technology for re-engineering super-sensitive phased-array radar.

New Altium Designer 6 updates now available

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Enjoy a more powerful and productive design environment with the latest updates for Altium Designer – Altium Designer 6.4 and 6.5 and the Altium Designer 6 Viewer Edition.

IN THE WORKSHOP

  • Place and Drag multiple tracks
    the smart way

    Boost your board layout productivity with new multiple track placement and dragging capabilities.
  • Bringing soft PCBs to life
    The evolution of electronics is moving designs towards ‘soft’ reprogrammable solutions, but how do you interactively work with hardware and wiring that’s disappeared inside a 456-pin programmable device?
  • Board's eye view of your multi-layer design
    A modern multi-layer board is a busy space, crammed with fine pitch components and routing on many layers. Altium Designer 6 includes features to help you manage your view of the board.
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Successfully automating an electronic product development process can speed up design, but only if all constraints defining the process fall within the limits of the design environment.

As design disciplines converge, the scope of design automation is changing. This article examines what makes for good design automation and how this influences the way your tools will evolve in the future. [more]


ITT helps sharpen the eye on space

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High-tech US defense contactor ITT Industries Systems Division has taken on the ambitious task of re-engineering key US Defense surveillance radar systems. To get the job done in time and on budget, the company has switched to Altium Designer.

The new electronics systems need to be developed now, but be at the cutting edge of technology when the revised super-sensitive radar is commissioned in 2010 – Altium Designer’s unified design environment provided the perfect platform for developing the radar’s advanced signal processing systems using the very latest technology and design techniques. [more]


Altium Designer 6 training

With advanced board-level and embedded intelligence capabilities, Altium Designer has many hidden features waiting to be unlocked by a competent user. By attending one of our expertly conducted training courses, you will have the opportunity to learn and refine your skills and improve your value in your organization. You can choose to attend either a face-to-face training course or web-based training provided live and direct to your desktop.

Face-to-face training courses
Our hands-on training courses are a comprehensive start-to-finish curriculum that have been designed to give you the necessary skill-set to get the most out of your design system and gain proficiency in both the basic and advanced features of Altium Designer.

Online training sessions
Our online web-based training courses are conducted by one of our very own Altium engineers. These courses are designed to deliver the basic knowledge and necessary skill-set required to quickly get you up-to-speed and get the most out of your Altium Designer system.

Please contact an Altium Sales Representative for information on costs and the available training courses in your region.

Attend one of our face-to-face training courses or online training sessions and get the most from Altium Designer 6!

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Altium Designer put to the test…
Kevin Morris of FPGA and Programmable Logic Journal reports on Altium’s remarkable success in its self-imposed engineering empathy challenge – to see if Altium’s own software architects could successfully use Altium Designer 6 to design, build and maintain its new cutting-edge development board – the NanoBoard NB2 within a seemingly impossible deadline.
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Sneak Preview: Altium’s new TASKING toolset shrinks code and boosts performance
Read about the performance gains available in Altium’s new TASKING VX-toolset for C166/ST10 embedded software development.
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