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Reconfigurable hardware platforms

Altium's NanoBoards are unique, reconfigurable hardware platforms that harnesses the power of today's high-capacity, low-cost programmable devices to allow rapid and interactive implementation and debugging of your digital designs.

With the NanoBoard connected to a PC running Altium Designer – the world's first truly unified electronic design system – you can develop, implement, test and bring to market more intelligent digital products faster than previously possible.

Target programmable devices such as FPGAs and processors are housed on plug-in daughter boards, allowing you to easily change the project architecture and providing a truly device and vendor-independent development solution.

The latest release of Altium's NanoBoard, the Desktop NanoBoard, takes the nano-level breadboarding concept introduced with the NanoBoard-NB1 to a whole new level, enhancing your ability to design, implement and debug an entire design before moving to the production PCB.

Use the NanoBoard as a system prototyping and development platform, as an educational hands-on teaching tool, or as a standalone product running a custom system design. Its power, flexibility and tight integration with Altium Designer opens up the exciting possibilities of soft system design to you today.

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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.

Daughter boards

Altium's NanoBoard architecture is unique in that target programmable devices are housed on plug-in daughter boards, enabling you to easily change the target project architecture, providing a truly FPGA vendor-independent development board.

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Peripheral boards

With the release of the Desktop NanoBoard, peripherals available to the host FPGA are now delivered on removable peripheral boards, providing a simple and cost-effective method for rapid prototyping of hardware concepts.