Altium in the news 2011

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6 December: Beyond Design: Differential Pair Routing

PCB Magazine examines the debate on differential pair routing.

29 November: Cloud computing set for IT industry baptism

Altium chief information officer Alan Perkins discusses being an early adopter of cloud computing technologies.

29 November: Data management for EDA apps sees gains in 2011

Electronic Design looks at the features in Altium Designer 10.

3 October 2011: Featured Products: NanoBoard 3000

EEWeb reviews the NanoBoard 3000 in its latest issue.

29 September 2011: PCD&F Announces 2011 PCB Tool NPI Winners

Altium took home the NPI Award from the PCB West tradeshow in Boston in September. Altium Designer 10 won the award in the PCB design category.

27 September 2011: The Roundtable - Interactive Intelligent Devices

Altium's Bob Potock is featured in this roundtable discussion on the following question: "Now that today’s products must not only be intelligent, they must be interactive with users and fellow devices over a network. What do you feel the greatest challenge to the engineer is to achieve that functionality?"

2 September 2011: Altium Designer made available to over 5,000 GoEngineer customers

1 September 2011: Hey, you! Get into my Cloud

You know it’s a brave new world when board design and cloud computing get mentioned in the same breath. Altium's Rob Irwin explores the question, "Who will create these connected devices and the ecosystems that support them, and how can they build the systems fast enough?"

30 August 2011: Altium Signs GoEngineer to Distribute Next-Gen EDA Software to Western, South Central U.S.

30 August 2011: Altium Signs GoEngineer to Distribute Next-Gen EDA Software to Western, South Central U.S.

26 August 2011: ACD Implements Altium Designer 10

ACD implemented Altium Designer 10 to broaden the support of its design team. With Altium Designer 10, ACD increases its range of schematic capture and board layout. Read about the deployment at ECN Magazine.

15 August 2011: Connected Devices: A New Era of Electronics Design

Will your next product be connected to the internet? Probably, so make sure to use platform-based connectivity design tools. Altium's Bob Potock explains the "hows" and "whys" in this article in ECN Magazine.

20 July 2011: The most expensive component in the world (via New Electronics)

12 July 2011: Martin Haris, head of global field operations, Altium (via New Electronics)

Chris Shaw asks Martin Harris about the latest developments at Altium. 

July 2011: Electronics Design Data Management Makes Re-use Real

Altium's Robert Huxel takes a look at the advantages of Electronic Design Data Management.

1 July 2011: Electronic design data management makes re-use real

EDN Europe article looks at how a practical unified design data repositoryhelps to comprehensively manage every variant of every design you produce.

23 June 2011: Altium Fleshes out EDA Data Management Strategy 

Beth Stackpole of Design News takes a broader view of Altium Vaults and how they help fill the "void at the engineering workgroup level".

20 June 2011: Cloud-based development moves one step closer
UK journalist Philip Ling reviews Altium Designer for EE Times Europe.

11 June 2011: Facebook: Next Generation Best Practices for Businesses

Electronic Design Magazine talks to electronic design firms about doing business via Facebook. Written by Joe Dysart.

13 June 2011: Altium brings affordable, high integrity data management to electronic product design

Max Maxfield of EE Times writes about Altium's new Satellite Vaults server technology.

8 June 2011: Altium Offers Design Data Management

8 June 2011: Altium Satellite Vault for Electronic Product Design Data Management

25 May 2011: Alan Perkins Video Interview

In this video, Alan Perkins talks about how Altium uses Salesforce.com, what he likes about the platform, and what Salesforce.com can do better. He would particularly like to see some restrictions taken off the platform.

16 May 2011: Altium sets course for world-wide sales growth

Max Maxfield of EE Times discusses the appointment of Martin Harris, CEO for Europe, Middle East and Africa (EMEA) to the position of Head of Global Field Operations for Altium.

10 May 2011: U of M team wins solar car race at Indy

The University of Minnesota's solar car team, designed with Altium, circled the Brickyard in Indianapolis 569 times over three days to win a college solar car race.

9 May 2011: Altium’s Big Bet

Mike Buetow of Printed Circuit Design & Fab revisits Altium's decision to move their headquarters from Sydney to Shanghai.

6 May 2011: Engineering software updates to the future

3 May 2011: Universities sign on with Altium – from the classroom to outer space!

26 April 2011: Seven universities sign on with Altium: From the classroom to CubeSats

26 April 2011: Seven Universities Sign on with Altium

18 April 2011: Par for the Course

Kevin Morris of EE Journal waxes poetic about the "negative" aspects of the EDA industry.

18 April 2011: LDRA and TASKING Integration drives code re-use in automotive, control and avionics

UK journalist Nick Flaherty reports that Liverpool-based embedded code verification tool developer LDRA has linked its tool suite with Altium's TASKING VX-toolset for the Infineon C166 controller, bringing compliance to safety standards such as MISRA, IEC 61508, and DO-178B to small-footprint microcontrollers like Infineon's C166 family.

15 April 2011: Would you drink it? - The dilemma of design reuse

Altium's Rob Evans ruminates on the dilemma of design reuse in his latest blog on New Electronics.

12 April 2011: Shanghaied in Sydney

Kevin Morris of EE Journal interviews Altium CEO Nick Martin, taking an in-depth look at the company's business moves over the years, as well as revolutions in technology, leading up to its recent decision to move headquarters to China.

12 April 2011: PCB layouts and 3D designs move closer together

Chris Edwards finds that after 40 years of separation, the worlds of 3D design and PCB layout finally seem to be moving closer together. Read this article in New Electronics.

11 April 2011: Meandering musings on Altium’s bold and exciting move to Shanghai

Max Maxfield of EE Times takes a look at Altium's history of 'bold and exciting' moves that lead up to its recent announcement to move headquarters to China.

7 April 2011: Behind the Altium Shanghai Express

Mike Buetow explores Altium's decision to move its headquarters to Shanghai for Printed Circuit Board & Fab.

5 April 2011: Mouser, Altium Link Part Info with Altium Designer

Chelsea Drysdale explains how Altium's partnership with Mouser means that engineers can get parts info direct to their desktop via AltiumLive.

5 April 2011: Altium Links Mouser's Electronics Database

April 2011: MAKE Magazine Toolbox

MAKE, the magazine for do-it-yourselfers who like to tweak, hack, and bend technology to their will, takes a look at the NanoBoard 3000 in its April issue.

31 March 2011: The Applied Research Laboratory standardizes on Altium Designer

24 March 2011: Can I see your ID please...

Altium Designer Specialist Jason Howie blogs about ID cards and secure design data management on New Electronics.

23 March 2011: Altium 10 adds PDM, forums, clouds, and features

Paul Rako of EDN takes a historical look at Altium's product offerings and updates leading up to the release of Altium Designer 10 and its surrounding ecosystems.

22 March 2011: The real role of EDA in the cloud

Altium's Rob Irwin pens an article for EE Times on how the cloud will enable designers to develop a new generation of devices for which the Internet is simply an extension of the device’s internal functionality.

16 March 2011: Board-Level Design Suite Takes On Engineering-Data Management

David Maliniak of Electronic Design discusses the design data management features in Altium Designer 10, as well as examples of how it might work in the real world, while mentioning cloud-based services available via AltiumLive.

11 March 2011: The recipe for successful manufacture

Altium's Ben Jordan cooks up a recipe for the successful manufacture of electronic products for EMTworldwide.

9 March 2011: Will Your Next Product Be Connected to the Internet?

Altium's Bob Potock writes an article for Chip Design on the forthcoming surge in connected devices - 15 billion by 2015, says IDC - and the benefits of a platform based solution.

7 March 2011: PCB design goes into the Cloud

Phil Ling of EE Times Europe explores Altium's move to the cloud with its latest release of Altium Designer 10, AltiumLive and Altium Vaults.

7 March 2011: The Multiple Phases of EVE

4 March 2011: Altium Designer 10 Oversees All Design Data

Jon Titus gives an overview of the new release for Online Components.

4 March 2011: Adding Wi-Fi to Your FPGA Design, Building a Connected Device    

Altium's Bob Potock appears on EE Journal's Chalk Talk HD video show to discuss connected device design. 

4 March 2011: Altium builds ecosystem for 50,000 designers

Electronics Weekly interviews CEO Nick Martin on the release of the AltiumLive portal for users of Altium Designer.

2 March 2011: Altium redefines board-level design (again)!

Max Maxfield of EE Times writes up an article on the release of Altium Designer 10, AltiumLive and Altium Vaults.

25 February 2011: Design data management – how to avoid getting tied up in red tape

18 February 2011: How many engineers does it take to change a lightbulb?

Electronics Weekly reprints a post from Altium's Envision blog.

18 February 2011: Cloud Seeding

Ed Sperling of Chip Design mentions Altium in a story about why EDA in the cloud is a good idea.

14 February 2011: Altium Designer 10 Ushers In Engineering Content Management

Beth Stackpole of Design News writes about Altium's EDA platform that has been built around the idea of bringing smart data management capabilities to electronics design.

8 February 2011: Stirring Up Trouble: Altium Designer 10 Kicks Some Serious Sand

Kevin Morris of EE Journal digs deep into Altium's forward-thinking design flow and tight integration between the various phases of product development.

7 February 2011: Are there any FPGA tool developers out there?

Brian Bailey writes about Altium's enterprise class tools including FPGA design, PCB design, manufacturing, data management and more for Programmable Logic DesignLine on EE Times.

2 February 2011: Blog Review

Ed Sperling of Chip Design writes a round-up of interesting blog posts from the week, including Harry the ASIC Guy's post on Altium's cloud-based approach for FPGA design.

1 February 2011: Altium Releases Designer 10

Mike Buetow writes about Altium Designer 10 for Printed Circuit Board Design & Fab.

31 January 2011: Altium Designer 10 Makes Leap in FPGA Component Integration

Loring Wirbel of FPGA Journal writes about the enhanced platform/framework design methodology in Altium Designer 10 with its unified database and top-down views.

30 January 2011: Altium Looking to Gain Altitude in the Cloud

Harry Gries, author of the blog "Harry the ASIC Guy", pens his thoughts about Altium moving EDA to the cloud and what it might mean for designers of all stripes.

24 January 2011: First in, Best Dressed ...

10 January 2011: Can a cable be just 'a cable'?

January 2011: Interview with EEWeb Member and EMC Engineer Gary A. Crowell Sr.

Electronic engineering community EEWeb interviews Altium Designer customer Gary A. Crowell. He shares his favorite hardware and software tools, and more.