The Electronic Product Development process
At its core, developing the electronics of a product essentially involves two levels of design:
- The development of the programmable elements that form the core intelligence of a design and are 'loaded' onto the physical platform during or after manufacture.
- Creating a physical platform using discrete, off-the-shelf components mounted on a printed circuit board.
As more functionality moves from discrete devices and into the programmable realm, the various design processes converge. As we move into the future, programmed device intelligence will take center stage as the means to create functionality and sustainable product differentiation. This will require the unification within a single environment of board design, programmable logic design and software development, and the bringing together of the design management processes that oversee them.
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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The Innovation Station
The 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.
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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Almost two years ago, we announced the last major version of P-CAD and our intention to retire the P-CAD product line. We are now formalizing the end of life for P-CAD, which will no longer be supported after June 30, 2008.