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21st-29th December, 2010: Thought Leaders in Cloud Computing: Alan Perkins, CIO of Altium
Sramana Mitra and guest author Shaloo Shalini engage in a QA about Altium's cloud strategy with CIO Alan Perkins.
22nd December, 2010: Teamwork – really?
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15th December, 2010: Altium to Release Designer 10 Next Month
Mike Buetow of Printed Circuit Design & Fab writes about the forthcoming release of Altium Designer.
14th December, 2010: Head in the Clouds, Altium Leads Another Design Tool Revolution
Kevin Morris of FPGA Journal writes about Altium's vision for cloud-based application development, following the company's acquisition of Morfik.
11th November, 2010: Altium supports Microsemi’s SmartFusion mixed-signal FPGAs
Clive Maxfield of EE Times discusses the Altium/Microsemi partnership.
10th November, 2010: Altium Designer Supports Microsemi M-S FPGAs
Chip Design Magazine writes that Altium, in partnership with Microsemi (formerly Actel), will provide its Altium Designer software as an option to customers using SmartFusion intelligent mixed signal FPGAs.
10th November, 2010: Altium to support Microsemi's SmartFusion
EE Times writes that Altium was selected as a design solution partner for Microsemi's SmartFusion because of Altium Designer's ability to address system design by combining PCB, embedded software development and FPGA design in one unified system.
26th October, 2010: When ignorance really is bliss
25th October, 2010: Defragging the design process
Altium Technical Editor Rob Evans pens an article for Electronics Advocate on how to maintain the integrity of the overall design without putting undue constraints on designers.
25th October, 2010: Balancing Risk Vs. Innovation - configuration in the design platform
Embedded Insights has published the third and final installment of Altium Technical Editor Rob Evans' article on how to balance the need for high integrity design data management against the design freedom and flexibility required to create today’s smart, connected products.
10th October, 2010: Unified systems design and the electronic toothbrush
Altium's Product Marketing Manager Rob Irwin discusses the increasing pervasive nature of electronics in modern consumer society and the implications of the phenomenon on electronics design.
4th October, 2010: Balancing risk versus innovation – disconnect between design and production
Embedded Insights has published the second installment of Altium Technical Editor Rob Evans' article on how to balance the need for high integrity design data management against the design freedom and flexibility required to create today’s smart, connected products.
28th September, 2010: Why Altium has acquired Morfik
Altium's CIO Alan Perkins discusses Altium's acquisition of Morfik in the EETimes.
24th September, 2010: Balancing risk versus innovation – design data management
Rob Evans, Technical Editor at Altium, discusses how to balance the need for high integrity design data management against the design freedom and flexibility required to create today’s smart, connected products.
17th September, 2010: Eeek! Altium is going to buy Morfik
Clive Maxfield from the EE Times discusses Altium's aquistion of Morfik.
6th September, 2010: What if Henry Ford was an FPGA designer?
Marty Hauff, Global Customer Success Manager at Altium discusses the increased use of FPGAs which has lead to an influx of abstract design techniques. One might argue that these new techniques can't achieve the same performance as hand crafted designs. But does that really matter? And how might Henry Ford approach the challenge if he were alive today?
August 23, 2010: What do you get if you cross Falcon with EDA 360?
The first formal conversation with Portland-based freelance Brian Bailey, who is new to Altium but seems an enthusiastic observer of us.
August 6, 2010: FPGA design and embedded software design software together constitute the product design.
Zheng Haiyan outlines how Altium Designer software provides efficient and flexible FPGA development tools and flexible embedded software development tools.
July 19, 2010: The dark side of electronics in sport.
In the wake of the 2010 FIFA World Cup, Altium's Product Marketing Manager, Rob Irwin discusses the potential role of electronics in sport.
July 16, 2010: Altium releases smart prototyping peripheral board for NanoBoard.
Embedded control Europe discusses the release of Altium's prototyping peripheral add-on board for its NanoBoard FPGA-based development board working with both the fixed-FPGA NanoBoard 3000 and the fully-configurable NanoBoard NB2.
July 7, 2010: Design refactoring can pay dividends, says Altium.
Rob Evans, technical editor at Altium describes the benefits of refactoring designs, the right way and presents a few tips to help prevent head-scratching.
July 2010: Design Function Before Hardware
Rob Evans, Technical Editor at Altium Limited, analyses what's needed from today's electronics design tools to provide high-level systems that unlock the fuctionality from the constraints of a predefined hardware platform.
June 26, 2010: Herbert Truppe, director, austriamicrosystems
May 1, 2010: Design Data Management Keeps Rover Circuit Boards in Check
Electronics design services bureau, DKB Resources, explains how Altium Designer's comprehensive data management capabilities ensured the success of its Mars Rover electronics designs.
April 2010: Altium Facilitates FPGA-Based Development with NanoBoard 3000
Xilinx's Xcell Journal highlights how the NanoBoard 3000 is opening up new possibilities for rapid prototyping, allowing electronics designers to quickly and easily develop entire systems based on an FPGA.
April 2010: A dose of reality
Altium's Product Marketing Manager, Rob Irwin, discusses how reality can be the next simulation frontier.
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March, 2010: Next Generation System Design - Platforms versus Tool-Chains
Altium's Director of Technical Marketing, Bob Potock peels off the covers of platofrm-based system design, revealing how electronics designers can benefit from unifying the electronics design process.
March 27, 2010: Altium NanoBoard 3000 - FPGA Design Made Simple
In this blog, Daniel Payne of 'EDA Thoughts' tests out Altium's NanoBoard 3000 to see if it lives up to all its marketing hype.
March 4, 2010: The Lab Rat: FPGA Kit Goes All Out
The Lab Rat reviews the NanoBoard 3000, discovering how this Altium's new development board raises the level of abstraction, making FPGA-based designs possible for every electronics designer.
March 1, 2010: Altium Limited – Focus on the Americas
EDACafe Contributing Editor Russ Henke discusses Altium in the context of the world wide EDA vendor's community.
March 2010: A look at the NanoBoard 3000
In this E-Labs Inside article, Elektor tests the NanoBoard 3000 and finds that is a all-in-one development kit that makes FPGA design easy and affordable for electronics designers.
February 22, 2010: Altium inundated with new customers
Clive Maxfield, Editor at TechBites reports on Altium's recent surge in customers in North America, citing that of the new customers surveyed, 84 per cent reported productivity improvements of more than 200 per cent.
Februrary 12, 2010: There is so much to electronics than the electronics
Rob Evans, Technical Editor at Altium, argues that as engineers, we need to avoid the response 'Oh dear, looks like this interface was deisgned by an engineer' and start designing with end-user in mind.
12th January, 2010: Current forecast: Some sun, but cloudy most of the time
