Altium Limited

Altium add LatticeXP2 and Altera Stratix III processor support for electronics designers (6-Oct-2008)
Altium, developers of unified electronics design solutions, have extended their FPGA support to include the Altera Stratix III and LatticeXP2 families of programmable devices. Electronics designers now have new opportunities to harness the power of FPGAs and explore new design concepts in real time, without having to make final decisions on device choice too early in the design process.

Altium win the inaugural Software and Embedded Systems category in 2008 Engineers Australia Engineering Excellence Awards (25-Sep-2008)
Altium, developers of unified electronic product development solutions, have won the inaugural Software and Embedded Systems category in 2008 Engineers Australia Engineering Excellence Awards.

Altium appoint six master distributors in Japan (24-Sep-2008)
Altium, suppliers of unified electronics design solutions, have appointed six master distributors to sell their products. Altium’s new master distributors are Advanced Technology Corporation of Japan, ADT, Ryoyo Electro Corporation, Sophia Systems, Tokyo Electron Device and Vitec System Engineering.

Digi-Key Corporation and Altium announce global distribution agreement (15-Sep-2008)
Digi-Key Corporation, a global distributor of electronic components, and Altium, have announced a global distribution agreement.

Altium to export electronics design tool to China (24-Jul-2008)
Altium, specialising in electronics design solutions, has announced investments in China. These investments will accelerate the migration of users to Altium’s new generation electronics design tool, and support the teaching of unified electronics engineering in Chinese universities.

Altium adds project management and design data publishing capabilities to unified solution (4-Jul-2008)
Altium has added new project management and design data publishing capabilities to its unified electronic design solution that significantly help electronics designers manage the complexity of today’s multi-faceted design projects.

Altium introduces file importer for Altium Designer unified design system (6-Jun-2008)
Altium Limited has announced a new file importer for its Altium Designer unified design system that allows Allegro files to be easily brought into Altium Designer.

Altium 3D PCB technologies for electronic and mechanical designing (2-Jun-2008)
Altium, one of the leading developers of unified electronics design solutions, has introduced technology that facilitates electronics designers fit their boards into enclosures in real time, in 3D.

Altium to hold series of live web conferences (6-Dec-2007)
Altium, the electronics design industry’s developer of unified electronic product development solutions, is holding a series of live web conferences that introduce and demonstrate Altium Designer’s powerful new features.

New 3D PCB visualisation engine from Altium (29-Nov-2007)
Altium Limited, the developer of unified electronic product design solutions, has added a breakthrough 3D PCB visualisation engine to Altium Designer which makes board design a realistic experience for all designers.

Altium holds seminar road show (15-Oct-2007)
Altium is holding a seminar road show in four cities across Australia and New Zealand in October and November.

Altium reports financial results for Q1 2007/8 (12-Oct-2007)
Altium, a developer of unified electronic product development solutions, reported its financial results for the three months ending September 30, 2007.

Altium Designer in Canadian space research (11-Oct-2007)
Altium, a developer of unified electronics product development solutions, donates software to the University of Toronto Institute for Aerospace Studies, Space Flight Laboratory (UTIAS/SFL) in support of its CanX satellite missions.

Altium appoints Sam Weiss as new chairman (10-Oct-2007)
Altium Limited, a developer of unified electronic product development solutions, announced the appointment of Samuel S. Weiss as non-executive chairman of Altium’s Board of Directors.

Altium joins BSA to support anti-piracy crusade (16-Jul-2007)
Altium Limited, a leading developer of unified electronic product development solutions, has joined the Business Software Alliance (BSA) as an Asian regional member.

Innovative analogue electronics projects to be recognised (22-Jun-2006)
The finalists for the Best Analogue Design or Application category of the 2006 EDN Innovation Awards have been selected.

Innovative programmable logic projects to be recognised (21-Jun-2006)
The finalists for the Best Application of Programmable Logic category of the 2006 EDN Innovation Awards have been selected.

Innovative RF-based projects to be recognised (20-Jun-2006)
The finalists for the Best Application of RF Design category of the 2006 EDN Innovation Awards have been selected.

Innovative microcontroller-based projects to be recognised (19-Jun-2006)
The finalists for the Best Application of a Microcontroller category of the 2006 EDN Innovation Awards have been selected.

Innovative electronics test projects to be recognised (19-Jun-2006)
The finalists for the Best Application of Test or Data Acquisition Equipment category of the 2006 EDN Innovation Awards have been selected.

Time for Australian electronics students to shine (14-Jun-2006)
The finalists for the Best Student Project category of the 2006 EDN Innovation Awards have been selected.

Versatile FPGA/processor development board (2-May-2006)
ALTIUM Limited has launched its next-generation NanoBoard-NB2 – a unique FPGA-based development board targeting unified processor/FPGA system design. It provides developers with a configurable hardware platform to implement debug designs targeted to a wide range of processor and FPGA architectures.

Unified hardware/software compiler technology for Altium Designer (1-May-2006)
ALTIUM Limited recently unveiled its next-generation unified hardware/software compiler technology at the Embedded Systems Conference, Silicon Valley. It is built on Altium's high-performance Viper ANSI/ISO C-compiler platform.

Altium Designer adds support for Altera Nios II processor (28-Apr-2006)
ALTIUM Limited has announced that Altium Designer 6.0, the latest version of its unified electronic product development system, has been enhanced to include full support for embedded designs using the Altera Nios II FPGA-based soft processor.

Australia’s most innovative electronics design students (20-Apr-2006)
The 2006 EDN Innovation Awards is looking to recognise Australia’s next generation of electronics engineers.

Australia’s best applications of analogue design (18-Apr-2006)
Projects that demonstrate innovative analogue design are being sought as part of the 2006 EDN Innovation Awards.

Australia’s best applications of microcontrollers (13-Apr-2006)
Projects that demonstrate innovative use of microcontrollers are being sought as part of the 2006 EDN Innovation Awards.

Australia’s best applications of RF design (12-Apr-2006)
Projects that demonstrate innovative RF design are being sought as part of the 2006 EDN Innovation Awards.

Australia’s best applications of programmable logic (11-Apr-2006)
Projects that demonstrate innovative use of programmable logic are being sought as part of the 2006 EDN Innovation Awards.

Australia’s best applications of test or data acquisition equipment (11-Apr-2006)
Projects that demonstrate innovative use of test or data acquisition equipment are being sought as part of the 2006 EDN Innovation Awards.

Australia’s innovator of the year sought (7-Apr-2006)
EDN Australia magazine is aiming to find the 2006 Innovator of the Year, as part of the 2006 EDN Innovation Awards.

Innovation awards deadline extended (31-Mar-2006)
The deadline for entries in the 2006 EDN Innovation Awards has been extended to 8 May, reflecting the awards ceremony being moved to July.

TASKING VX-toolset for ARM (31-Jan-2006)
ALTIUM Limited has released a new TASKING VX-toolset for ARM that provides support for a wide range of ARM processors, such as the ARM7, ARM9 and ARM9E processor families. It is enhanced with Altium’s sophisticated, next-generation Viper C compiler technology.

Electronic product development system. (24-Jan-2006)
ALTIUM Limited has announced support for a range of discrete 32-bit ARM-based processors in Altium Designer 6.0, the latest version of its unified electronic product development system. It integrates board- and FPGA-level system development, embedded software development and PCB layout.

Electronic product development system (15-Dec-2005)
ALTIUM has announced that Altium Designer 6.0, the latest version of its unified electronic product development system, includes new and upgraded data management capabilities designed to make it significantly easier to integrate with company parts and document control systems.

Reduce design time for dense PCBs (2-Dec-2005)
ALTIUM Limited has released the next version of its groundbreaking unified electronic product development system, Altium Designer 6.0. It is the first product to unify the design process, integrating PCB design and the design of programmable devices such as FPGAs.

Altium announces Q1 results (8-Nov-2005)
ALTIUM Limited has announced its results for Quarter One (Q1) 2005/2006. Altium delivered a 1.1% improvement in local currency product sales by comparison to the same quarter in the previous financial year. On a regional basis (in local currencies), the US reported strong overall increased product sales growth of 9%.

Rewarding innovation (27-Oct-2005)
The 2006 EDN Innovation Awards program starts its search for the best in Australian electronics design.

PCB design system software upgrade (13-Oct-2005)
ALTIUM Limited has released Service Pack 3 (SP3) for P-CAD 2004, the PCB design system for layout professionals. Available as a free download to existing licensed P-CAD 2004 customers, SP3 is a substantial upgrade, with over 160 new features and enhancements that offer greater ease-of-use and flexibility in the PCB design process.

Altium support for Lattice devices (16-Sep-2005)
ALTIUM Limited will support Lattice Semiconductor’s LatticeEC and LatticeECP FPGA devices as part of its recently released Service Pack 4 (SP4) for Altium Designer, the industry’s first unified application to incorporate all the technologies necessary for complete electronic product development within a single application.

Altium Designer selected by Agilent (14-Sep-2005)
ALTIUM Limited has announced the selection of Altium Designer as the electronics design system of choice by Agilent Technologies’ strategic new joint venture in China, Agilent-Qianfeng Electronics Technologies. The cost effectiveness, short learning curve, intuitive operation, and powerful, integrated feature set were key factors in the selection of Altium Designer’s Protel licence.

Application for electronic product development (28-Jun-2005)
ALTIUM has released Service Pack 4 (SP4) for Altium Designer, a single, unified application that incorporates all the technologies and capabilities necessary for complete electronic product development.

Two-level design document viewing strategy (17-Jun-2005)
ALTIUM has launched a two-level design viewing strategy. This adds significant transparency and versatility to the design data management capabilities of the company’s Altium Designer system for electronic product development.

Design system upgrade (6-Jun-2005)
ALTIUM has released Service Pack 2 for P-CAD 2004, the company's PCB design system for layout professionals. Service Pack 2 (SP2) adds over 130 features and enhancements designed to give greater power and control over the PCB design process. It is available as a free download to all existing P-CAD 2004 customers.

Innovation rewarded (25-May-2005)
The EDN Innovation Awards prove a resounding success as Codan take top Award.

Altium unifies electronic product development (17-May-2005)
Altium has announced the unification of the company’s recently-released DXP 2004-based products under the Altium Designer name.

Tough future for EDA (21-Apr-2005)
The EDA industry is crucial to electronics. But it faces tough challenges with increasing product complexity. Andrew Woolls-King gets the inside story from DATE

Altium restructures top team (15-Apr-2005)
Sydney-based EDA developer Altium has shuffled its boardroom pack.

Product roadmap for P-CAD users (5-Apr-2005)
ALTIUM has released a product roadmap for P-CAD, Altium's professional tools for board-layout specialists. The roadmap is an insight into Altium's ongoing support and development of P-CAD.

Software development toolset (15-Mar-2005)
ALTIUM has released version 3.1r1 of its Tasking M16C software development toolset. The M16C architecture from Renesas Technology is a 16-bit MCU with high C-programming efficiency, high-speed processing and low-power consumption. The combination of Renesas' M16C MCU, and Altium's TASKING M16C software development toolset with VIPER compiler technology, enables engineers to develop high-performance applications.

Compiler technology improves code performance (11-Mar-2005)
ALTIUM has released Version 2.2 of its TASKING TriCore VX-toolset. It has Viper compiler technology and features aligned to Infineon's 32-bit TriCore microcontrollers, including the TC1115 and TC1796 variants.

EDN Awards deadline extended (3-Mar-2005)
EDN - The Design Magazine of the Electronics Industry, has extended the deadline for entry to its Innovation Awards until 11 March 2005.

Compiler technology improves code performance and execution speed (28-Feb-2005)
ALTIUM has released version 2.2 of its Tasking TriCore VX-toolset. It uses Viper compiler technology and has new features aligned to Infineon's 32-bit TriCore microcontrollers, including the TC1115 and TC1796 variants.

Front-end engineering design solution (16-Feb-2005)
ALTIUM has released Service Pack 2 (SP2) for its universal front-end engineering design solution, CircuitStudio 2004. It expands the design capture capabilities of CircuitStudio with more than 100 new features and enhancements, including the addition of support for Verilog design flows.

EIA backs EDN Awards (16-Feb-2005)
After receiving backing from Australia’s national trade association for the electronics sector, the Australian Electrical and Electronic Manufacturers’ Association (AEEMA), EDN’s Innovation Awards have also been endorsed by South Australia’s Electronics Industry Association (EIA).

Upgrade for board-level design system (21-Dec-2004)
ALTIUM has released Service Pack 2 (SP2) for the Protel 2004 board-level design system. It is the most substantial upgrade to the Protel system since its debut on Altium’s DXP technology integration platform. It is available as a free download to all existing Protel DXP and Protel 2004 customers.

System design software (15-Dec-2004)
ALTIUM has updated its Nexar system design software to support version 4.2 of Altera's Quartus II development software. Nexar is a complete FPGA-based digital design system that supports a range of Altera programmable logic devices (PLDs).

Advanced route tool boosts design productivity (2-Dec-2004)
ALTIUM Limited has announced the release of P-CAD 2004, Altium’s PCB design system for layout professionals. Offering more than 50 new and enhanced features, this version offers upgraded technologies for layout and automatic and interactive routing, improved support for CAM file editing and circuit simulation.

Supporting Australian innovation (25-Nov-2004)
Electronics News profiles the sponsors of the EDN Innovation Awards.

FPGA-based RISC processor for system development (17-Nov-2004)
ALTIUM’S Service Pack 2 for the Nexar FPGA-based system design software will include a 32-bit, FPGA-based RISC processor that will simplify the development of 32-bit systems targeted for FPGA implementation.

Universal design capture platform (15-Nov-2004)
ALTIUM has expanded the HDL capabilities of its Nexar FPGA-based digital design system with the introduction of support for Verilog. Service Pack 2 for Altium's DXP 2004 design systems includes updates for Nexar and the Protel board-level design system.

Support for FPGA daughter boards (5-Nov-2004)
ALTIUM has announced support for an expanded range of FPGA daughter boards for its LiveDesign-enabled, FPGA-based development board, the NanoBoard.

Support for Actel flash-based devices (5-Nov-2004)
ALTIUM has announced support for the Actel flash-based ProASIC Plus FPGA device family. This is part of an FPGA daughter board release for its LiveDesign-enabled, FPGA-based development platform, the NanoBoard.

Plug-in daughter board (4-Nov-2004)
ALTIUM has released a plug-in daughter board supporting the Xilinx Virtex-II Pro FPGA as part of an FPGA daughter board release for its LiveDesign-enabled FPGA-based development platform, the NanoBoard.

Universal JTAG interface (29-Oct-2004)
ALTIUM has released a universal JTAG interface that makes it possible for engineers to use the full LiveDesign capabilities of Altium's Nexar system-level FPGA development software with virtually any third-party FPGA development board.

Evaluation kits (20-Oct-2004)
ALTIUM has released LiveDesign Evaluation Kits that include a versatile, low-cost evaluation board with the choice of either an Altera Cyclone or Xilinx Spartan-3 FPGA device.

Enhanced compiler and debugger (14-Oct-2004)
ALTIUM has released a new version of its Tasking C166/ST10 software development toolset. Version 8.5 of the Tasking C166/ST10 toolset features numerous enhancements to the compiler and debugger and introduces a number of key improvements.

AEEMA endorses Innovation Awards (14-Oct-2004)
EDN’s Innovation Awards have received endorsement from the Australian Electrical and Electronic Manufacturers’ Association (AEEMA).

AEEMA endorses Innovation Awards (13-Oct-2004)
EDN’s Innovation Awards have received endorsement from the Australian Electrical and Electronic Manufacturers’ Association (AEEMA).

Celebrating Australian excellence (12-Oct-2004)
Electronics News proudly announces the EDN Innovation Awards.

Celebrating Australian excellence (5-Oct-2004)
Electronics News proudly announces the EDN Innovation Awards.

Software development toolset (18-Aug-2004)
ALTIUM has released version 1.1 of its Tasking R8C software development toolset, with support for the entire range of R8C/Tiny devices and a new interface to the Renesas E7 emulator.

Design system for layout and routing (18-Aug-2004)
ALTIUM has released a new version of its P-CAD PCB design system to beta testing.

Complete board-level design system (16-Jun-2004)
ALTIUM has announced significant updates to the capabilities and performance of the autorouter in the latest version of its complete board-level design system, Protel. With the release of Service Pack 1, Protel 2004's PCB autorouting technology now features a comprehensive Routing Setup Report.

Two new plug-in daughter boards (19-May-2004)
ALTIUM has announced two new daughter boards that enable engineers using Altium's Nexar development system to directly and interactively develop entire processor-based digital systems on Altera's Stratixä and Xilinx's Virtexä-II FPGAs.

Altium and Bosch extend CAN licensing to FPGAs (30-Apr-2004)
Altium has entered into a licensing agreement with automotive electronics supplier, Robert Bosch GmbH, which will allow the company to sub-license Bosch’s Controller Area Network (CAN) protocol for FPGA-based applications.

FPGA design family goes live (26-Mar-2004)
Altium is releasing an FPGA design product range exploiting its “LiveDesign” hands-on hardware and software environment that is claimed to allow “on-the-fly” PC-based development and implementation of real, physical circuits, including “soft” processor cores.

Software for all Infineon controllers (4-Mar-2004)
ALTIUM has announced its support for Infineon Technologies' newest microcontroller, the TC1130, in the TASKING TriCore VX-toolset. This addition to Infineon's TriCore microcontroller line is a high-performance 32-bit RISC microcontroller specifically developed for industrial control and automotive applications.

EDA comes to programmable chips (6-Feb-2004)
Nexar is the industry’s first complete, vendor-independent system development environment for FPGAs says Altium’s Nick Martin.

FPGA or EDA? (23-Jan-2004)
Mentor Graphics has rolled out a new physical synthesis tool for the FPGA market, setting the stage for a showdown between low-cost FPGA tools produced by FPGA vendors and those made by EDA companies. Australian EDA vendor Altium has also entered the fray with its Nexar product.

Tools bring system focus to FPGA design (5-Dec-2003)
Australian Windows-based EDA vendor Altium is claiming that its “Nexar” product is the first to provide a comprehensive, vendor-independent solution for system-level design on an FPGA platform.

Embedded software development toolset (11-Nov-2003)
ALTIUM has released version 10.0 of its TASKING 68K embedded software development toolset.

Embedded software development toolset (17-Jun-2003)
ALTIUM has announced a significantly enhanced new version of the TASKING C166/ST10 embedded software development toolset. Version 8.0 of this toolset features a host of major enhancements and new features.

Enhanced toolset increases code efficiency (20-May-2003)
ALTIUM has announced the release of a new TASKING embedded software development toolset for the TriCore architecture that has been enhanced with next-generation Viper compiler technology. Altium internal benchmarking has shown increases in execution speed and decreases in code size of an average of 10%.

Software promises end to assembly headaches (25-Mar-2003)
Complementing their already extensive line-up of EDA tools, Altium have recently released CAMtastic on their DXP design platform.

Making electronics design easier (20-Feb-2003)
ALTIUM has announced the release of version 3.5 of the TASKING embedded software development toolset for Motorola's DSP56xxx architecture. Developers for the wide range of DSP56xxx applications will benefit from a redesigned user interface and support for all the latest derivatives and evaluation boards.

Embedded software development toolset (20-Feb-2003)
A NEW embedded software development toolset, expected to increase execution speed and decrease code size up to 10% over the current TASKING TriCore toolset, has been developed for Infineon's 32-bit TriCore architecture.

Board level design system updated (24-Jan-2003)
ALTIUM has announced the availability of an expanded feature set for its Protel DXP board-level design system. The release of Service Pack 2 adds the full host of nVisage multi-dimensional design capture capabilities to Protel DXP as well as significant improvements to the corresponding PCB design capabilities.

Toolset generates code up to 60% faster (22-Jan-2003)
ALTIUM has announced the release of v1.2 of the TASKING software development toolset, an efficient set of embedded software development tools for the StarCore family of Digital Signal Processor (DSP) cores.

Multi-dimensional electronic design tool (21-Nov-2002)
ALTIUM has announced the release of nVisage, a new 'multi-dimensional' design capture tool that allows design engineers to capture the conceptual design of their entire electronic system into a single, integrated environment.

Altium pushes successor to 2-D design capture (18-Nov-2002)
Altium has unveiled its nVisage DXP design capture tool targeting the front-end engineering design capture market as a successor to current two-dimensional tools.

PCB design system software upgrade (30-Oct-2002)
ALTIUM has announced a new version of its P-CAD PCB design system for layout specialists - P-CAD 2002 - offering more than sixty new and enhanced features. Many interface elements have been redesigned in P-CAD 2002 to give PCB layout specialists enhanced ease of use and a more productive design environment.

Altium updates P-CAD PCB design software (30-Oct-2002)
Altium has released the 2002 version of its P-CAD PCB design software with up to sixty new and enhanced features to simplify printed circuit board design.

Altium scraps user-pays system (17-Sep-2002)
EDA developer Altium has abandoned its controversial total support (ATS) user pays system for software patches and technical support less than a year after it was first introduced.

Altium sponsors Canadian pico-satellite (31-May-2002)
Altium, the Sydney-based EDA vendor, is sponsoring a “picosatellite” mission conducted by the University of Toronto’s Institute for Aerospace Studies (UTIAS). The program is an initiative in which students build, test, launch, and operate real satellites weighing less than 1kg.

Protel DXP released to external beta testing (24-May-2002)
With internal testing complete, Protel DXP has been released for external beta testing to a select group of Altium customers ahead of the final product release in July.

Altium schedules new Protel product (12-Dec-2001)
Altium has announced it will release the new version of its Protel board-level EDA product, codenamed ‘Phoenix’, to the market in Q1 2002, offering engineers the capability to move anywhere in the design process for the first time.

Protel wins dispute with PADS (27-Mar-2001)
Australian EDA software developer Protel International has resolved its dispute with PADS Software

Mixed results for Keycorp & Protel (28-Feb-2001)
Smart card manufacturer Keycorp has reported a loss while software developer Protel has announced a record half-year profit