Altium enhances Designer software

Altium's live demonstrations will focus on how Altium Designer can help designers exploit low-cost, high-performance FPGA devices.

Altium has introduced new concepts in Altium Designer that explore future techniques and design possibilities inherent in programmable devices.

A Field Instrumentation dashboard will help overcome some of the challenges of testing or remotely monitoring designs inside FPGAs.

A plug-and-play Software Platform Builder will help designers quickly 'snap' together systems and exploit a standard set of services within the 'soft' hardware environment created inside programmable devices.

Altium has also extended Altium Designer's real-time 3D PCB features with faster real-time 3D design performance.

The latest release also improves the memory and speed of the 3D PCB graphics system - by up to seven times.

Drawing in 2D has also increased in speed, by up to three times; 2D transparency is over 11-times faster; highlighting and masking is over nine-times faster; and 3D rotation is up to five-times faster.

Engineers interested in how Altium Designer is used to make next-generation electronics designs can view some of the latest customer innovations at Altium's customer showcase.

High-profile customers will display some of their most successful projects developed using Altium Designer.

Well-known Altium customers include Bang and Olufsen, Philips and Wincor Nixdorf.

Engineers wanting to learn more about Altium can also register for a hands-on workshop at the Embedded World conference.

The workshop is called 'Unified Design - Innovative Architectural Design Methodology for Embedded Systems' and will be held Tuesday, 3 March, 2009.