The Electronic Product Development process
At its core, developing the electronics of a product essentially involves two levels of design:
- Creating a physical platform using discrete, off-the-shelf components mounted on a printed circuit board.
- The development of the programmable elements of a design that are 'loaded' onto the physical design during or after manufacture.
As more functionality moves from discrete devices and into the programmable realm, the various design processes involved are converging. As we move into the future, efficient electronic product development will require the integration of board design, programmable logic design and software development, and the bringing together of the design management processes that oversee them.
Introducing the Altium Innovation Station
The Altium Innovation Station combines the award-winning Altium Designer unified electronics design software with the Altium NanoBoard range of reconfigurable hardware platforms. This approach puts device intelligence at the core of the design process. A complete, unified electronics design environment that unlocks a new way to create and bring to market intelligent, connected electronic products.
Altium Designer provides electronic designers and engineers with a single, unified application that incorporates all the technologies and capabilities necessary for a complete electronic product development. Altium Designer integrates board- and FPGA-level system design, embedded software development, and PCB layout, editing and manufacturing within a single design environment.
NanoBoard
Altium's NanoBoards are unique, reconfigurable hardware platforms that harness the power of today's high-capacity, low-cost programmable devices to allow rapid and interactive implementation and debugging of your digital designs.
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TASKING toolsets are world-leading tools for embedded software development and are the choice for embedded software development across industry standard computer platforms. The TASKING toolsets bring together the advanced software design technology needed to compete in the embedded communications era.
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P-CAD 2006 expands the design power of PCB professionals with its vast array of new and enhanced features. From design entry through to manufacturing, P-CAD 2006 includes all the tools you need to quickly and efficiently tackle any board design task.