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December 29, 2009: More performance, more logic and more options for FPGA designers
Altium continues to expand device options for electronics designers. The latest version of Altium Designer now includes complete support for the Spartan®-6 device family from Xilinx.
December 16, 2009: Altium continues expansion in Russia: appoints new country manager
Altium continues to expand its Russian operations, appointing Evgeny Shikov as the company’s first-ever country manager.
December 10, 2009: Forget the sun: where’s my robot?
Altium has proudly sponsored the NCSS Summer School, a 10-day summer program that brings together Australia’s brightest high school students to learn programming skills at the University of Sydney.
November 30, 2009: Altium expands in Romania
Altium has appointed Elinktron Technology SRL as a reseller in Romania. Elinktron will sell Altium Designer, Altium’s next generation electronics design solution, its NanoBoard series of FPGA-based development boards, and its TASKING embedded software development tool.
November 30, 2009: One less custom PCB to design for prototypes
Altium has released a new prototyping peripheral add-on board for its NanoBoard FPGA-based development boards. The new board works with both the fixed-FPGA NanoBoard 3000 and the fully-configurable NanoBoard NB2.
November 26, 2009: Altium sets December deadline for illegal users
Altium has set a December 2009 deadline for illegal users of its electronics design software to become legal. Under the new scheme, companies doing electronics design can legalize their illegal copies of Altium’s P-CAD and Altium Designer software by buying the latest version of Altium Designer at a price of руб189 000 that includes a one year amnesty for each legalized seat.
November 25, 2009: Altium announces deployment enclosures for its NanoBoard 3000 FPGA-based development board
Altium has added an instant deployment option to its new NanoBoard 3000 FPGA development board. Designers can now take their FPGA-based designs from concept right through to deployment without the need to create a custom PCB.
November 19, 2009: Altium names Gerry Gaffney regional CEO of the Americas
Altium has appointed Gerry Gaffney, senior vice president and general manager of the company’s Americas operations, to regional CEO.
September 21, 2009: Altium builds EMEA management team
Altium has appointed three key staff members in the EMEA (Europe, Middle East and Africa) region.
September 14, 2009: Altium's radical new FPGA-based development board makes instant prototyping of electronic designs easy
Altium has launched a new addition to its NanoBoard family of FPGA-based development boards, the NanoBoard 3000.
September 14, 2009: Altium and Premier Farnell announce distribution agreement
Altium has appointed Premier Farnell as the web distributor for its new NanoBoard 3000 FPGA-based development board. The agreement extends to Premier Farnell’s family of global marketing and distribution services.
September 11, 2009: Altium appoints four new resellers
Altium has appointed four new resellers in the US to sell Altium’s next generation electronics design solutions, including Altium Designer and its reconfigurable Desktop NanoBoard.
August 25, 2009: The world’s next generation of electronics designers to use the world’s next generation electronics design solution
Altium Designer has been chosen as the electronics design solution for the WorldSkills Competition’s electronics category.
August 24, 2009: Altium confirms final results for the financial year ending 30 June, 2009
Altium has announced its final financial results for the three months ending 30 June 2009, and for the financial year ending 30 June 2009.
August 19, 2009: Time for electronics designers to get serious about programmable devices
Altium will be challenging electronics designers to look at news ways of using programmable devices at the centre of their designs at the 19th International Conference on Field Programmable Logic and Applications.
August 19, 2009: FPGA design without specialist VHDL/Verilog skills
Altium is hosting a free webinar demonstrating how electronics designers, with no prior experience, can develop and test sophisticated systems using FPGAs. The webinar takes place on September 22, 2009, 2pm EDT, 11am PDT, 6pm GMT.
July 29, 2009: Altium accelerates move towards continuous updates
Altium continues to provide new features in Altium Designer, its next generation electronics design software, to help electronics designers stay continuously updated on new technology and trends.
June 16, 2009: UK innovators pioneering next generation electronics design
Altium and its UK and Ireland reseller Premier EDA Solutions are creating an innovation showcase with customers at National Electronics Week (NEW), being held June 16-18, 2009 at Earl’s Court, London.
June 1, 2009: The sky’s no longer the limit, using Altium
Altium is providing software worth nearly US$100,000 to the Rutgers University robotics club, which will use Altium’s next generation electronics design solution to design and manufacture a complete unmanned aerial system (UAS).
May 14, 2009: Altium appoints Canadian reseller to help businesses be more innovative
Altium has appointed a new reseller in Canada. Neutronics Components will sell Altium's unified electronics design solution, Altium Designer, as well as its reconfigurable Desktop NanoBoard.
May 7, 2009: Altium appoints new Israeli reseller
Altium has appointed Tact Software Solutions as its new reseller in Israel. Tact will resell Altium Designer, Altium's next generation electronics design solution, and its TASKING embedded software development tool.
April 27, 2009: Altium provides lifeline for OrCAD® Capture users
Altium is saying to OrCAD® Capture users and those using antiquated point-tool solutions, that they no longer have to feel trapped in the old "divide & conquer" design paradigm or be limited by their tool's scope. They can now secure their future with a low risk path into Altium's unified design solution, and start designing next generation electronic products using a holistic approach to the development task.
April 20, 2009: What makes you so special?
Altium is serving notice that the old way of approaching electronics design needs to change for good. And the company is backing this with dramatic changes to how it prices its solutions, changes which remove a key barrier to designers and their organizations being able to design the new wave of intelligent, connected electronic products.
March 30, 2009: IP in China: less about intellectual property, more about infinite possibilities
Altium believes that the protection of intellectual property (IP) should no longer be seen as a primary issue in China. Chinese businesses, supported by the government, are seeking out and are willing to pay for the best in the market to create economic leadership for the long-term.
March 17, 2009: Altium supporting the next generation of electronics designers in Brazil
Altium will be providing its next generation electronics design solution to the Centro Universitário Salesiano (UNISAL) in Brazil, in an agreement signed with UNISAL's São Jose Campus in Campina.
March 16, 2009: Altium reseller Transfer adds TASKING compiler to Altium solution portfolio
Altium has appointed existing Benelux reseller Transfer B.V. to resell its TASKING embedded software development solution. The appointment complements Transfer's status as a reseller of Altium Designer, Altium's next generation electronics design solution.
March 3, 2009: Altium introduces TASKING TriCore VX-toolset v3.2
Altium has announced a new release of its TASKING TriCore VX-toolset. Enhanced with next generation Viper compiler technology, version 3.2 offers new features linked to Infineon's 32-bit TriCore microcontrollers, including support of the latest variants TC1167 and TC1197 for the industrial market, and the TC1767 and TC1797 for the automotive market.
February 26, 2009: Altium's challenge to engineers: change the way design is done
Altium will ask all electronics designers to leave all preconceptions at the door at this year's embedded world conference, held in Nuremberg, Germany, March 3-5, 2009.
February 26, 2009: Altium reports first-half results: growth in sales, revenue, return to profit
Altium has released its 4D statement for the half-year ending 31 December 2008. Report highlights include a return to profitability and an interim unfranked dividend of 2 Australian cents per share to sharesholders.
February 24, 2009: Altium further extends the appeal and ease of FPGA-based design
Altium has announced another new daughter board for its desktop NanoBoard reconfigurable hardware development platform. This latest plug-in daughter board targets Altera’s low-cost Cyclone® III EP3C40 FPGA in a 780 BGA package. The daughter board includes a range of on-board memories for application use and a 1-Wire memory device used to store board identification and related information.
February 24, 2009: Seeing is believing without leaving your chair
Altium is exhibiting, for the first time, at online event Virtual PCB, which runs February 24-25, 2009.
February 17, 2009: More freedom of choice: Altium expands programmable device options for next generation electronics design
Altium continues to expand programmable device options for its NanoBoard reconfigurable hardware development platform. Its released a new Xilinx Virtex-4 daughter board aimed at high performance signal processing, FPGA-based applications.
January 15, 2009: Next generation electronics design unveiled
Altium launches its European seminar series starting February 3, 2009. The series will focus on the latest release of Altium Designer, which introduces 40 news features and 230 enhancements that expand the next generation electronics design solution.
January 9, 2009: Industry and consumer electronics product design showcase: Altium at embedded world
Altium will be joined by customers from a range of industries to provide demonstrations and insights into the latest release of Altium Designer at this year’s embedded world show.
January 7, 2009: Altium supports CADSTAR users with new import wizard
Altium has added a new file importer, for CADSTAR design files, to the latest release of its next generation electronics design solution, Altium Designer. It’s the latest addition to Altium Designer’s design translation wizard, which already supports legacy design files from Allegro, OrCAD, DX Designer, and PADS, as well as Altium’s earlier P-CAD and Protel design tools.
January 5, 2009: Altium supports the next generation of robot designers
Altium is again sponsoring the FIRST Robotics Competition (FRC). The FRC teams, all teams of high-school students, will be able to use Altium Designer, Altium’s next generation electronics design solution, to develop custom circuits and modules for their robots.
