SAN JOSE, CA--(MARKET WIRE)--Apr 15, 2008 -- Altium Limited, the electronics design
industry's leading developer of unified electronic product
development
solutions, continues to expand its range of daughter boards
for its Desktop
NanoBoard and Altium Innovation Station.
Altium is previewing a new Actel® ProASIC®3E-based
plug-in daughter
board for the NanoBoard platform, at ESC in San Jose (April
15-18).
Altium's Actel ProASIC3E daughter board provides an A3PE1500
FPGA in a
676-pin fine-pitch ball grid array (FBGA) package, and also
features a
range of on-board memories for application use.
Optimized for performance, Actel's low-power, flash-based
ProASIC3E FPGAs
are well suited to a wide range of end-product applications.
Once
programmed, the ProASIC3E devices retain configuration,
eliminating the
need for an external device to load configuration data at
power-up, thereby
reducing cost, minimizing power consumption, increasing
security, and
maximizing system reliability when using these devices with
Altium's
Innovation Station. Further, the design environment makes
it easy to bring
system functionality into the programmable space and rapidly
create and
deploy 'soft' systems for production applications.
"Altium is providing the tools to help designers innovate
in this new
marketplace by turning traditional electronics design inside
out and moving
the soft functionality of a product to the center of the
design process,"
said Nick Martin, CEO and founder of Altium. "The Altium
Innovation Station
allows designers to unlock the potential of low-power, re-programmable
devices, such as Actel's flash-based ProASIC3E FPGA, to
form a platform on
which to build intelligent, connected products that can
be easily updated
in the field."
Hezi Saar, senior manager, product marketing of Actel, commented,
"Time and
cost are serious pressures on today's designers. Altium's
plug-in daughter
boards will allow designers to explore design alternatives
without time or
cost penalties. The new Altium ProASIC3E-based daughter
card will allow
users of Altium's Innovation Station to fully exploit the
low-power, low
cost, flexibility and performance advantages of Actel's
flash-based
ProASIC3E FPGAs."
Altium is at ESC from April 15-17, booth number 1730.
About Altium
Altium Limited (ASX:ALU.AX - News) is the leading developer of electronic
product
development solutions dedicated to unifying the different
design
disciplines involved in electronics product development.
Altium products
ensure all electronic engineers, designers, developers,
and their
organizations, take maximum advantage of emerging design
technologies to
bring smarter products to market faster and easier. Founded
in 1985, Altium
has headquarters in Sydney, Australia, sales offices in
the United States,
Europe, Japan, China, and resellers in all other major markets.
For more
information, please visit www.altium.com.
About Altium Innovation Station
The Altium Innovation Station combines the Altium Designer
electronics
development software with Altium's NanoBoard range of reconfigurable
hardware development and deployment platforms to provide
a single design
environment for engineering sustainable differentiation
in electronics
design. Together, they allow electronics designers to create
value and
innovation in their products by focusing on designing device
intelligence
that is programmed rather than manufactured into a product.
Altium Designer's unified design environment means users
can harness the
potential of the latest electronics technologies, and move
to a 'soft'
design methodology without the need to acquire specialist
programmable
device expertise. It unifies the design of the hardware,
software and
programmable hardware by removing the disparate design flows
of old design
paradigms.
Altium's Desktop NanoBoard range of reconfigurable hardware
platforms
allows for both the development and deployment of device
intelligence based
on programmable devices such as FPGAs. Altium's NanoBoard
architecture is
unique in that it comes complete with a range of programmable
devices
housed on plug-in FPGA daughter boards, and interchangeable
peripheral
boards. The development NanoBoard provides a versatile reconfigurable
development platform independent of the choice of FPGAs.
In the future,
deployment NanoBoards will allow rapid completion of the
design process to
final hardware -- without the constraints of having to design
physical
hardware early in the design process.
For more information, please visit
http://www.altium.com/Products/AltiumDesigner/.
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