Altium gives new DXP technologies to P-CAD users
Service Pack 1 for P-CAD 2002 released today
SYDNEY, Australia – June 18, 2003 – Altium Limited (ASX: ALU), a leading developer of Windows-based electronic design and development software, today announced the release of Service Pack 1 for P-CAD 2002 users. The service pack provides a major upgrade to P-CAD 2002 with new CAM and simulation bonus technologies and significant enhancements. In line with Altium’s non-restrictive update policy, Service Pack 1 is available free of charge to all P-CAD 2002 customers.
DXP bonus technologies
Altium’s proprietary Design Explorer (DXP) technology integration platform represents the next step in technology innovation for the P-CAD product line. Since the PC was first used for design automation, P-CAD has been synonymous with PCB design expertise and high quality PCB layout tools. Service Pack 1 brings DXP technology to P-CAD 2002 Suite customers by giving them access to CAMtastic DXP, the latest version of Altium’s complete CAM verification and editing system, and a new DXP-based mixed-signal circuit simulator. These two new DXP technologies are fully integrated with P-CAD 2002 and provide a major upgrade to P-CAD’s CAM and circuit simulation capabilities.
CAMtastic DXP
CAMtastic DXP is a major update to CAMtastic 2000 and will provide P-CAD 2002 designers with a more sophisticated CAD/CAM tool solution for PCB fabrication. Time-to-market constraints dictate that the transfer from design to manufacturing be as smooth as possible. CAMtastic DXP has been specifically developed to facilitate this data transfer and will save designers time by ensuring designs are error free and completely ready for efficient fabrication and assembly. CAMtastic DXP’s new features include bi-directional ODB++ support, additional DRCs for strengthened data verification, advanced panelization, and extensive numerically controlled drill and rout features.
New mixed-signal circuit simulator
The ease and flexibility of analyzing circuit simulation results has been greatly increased by the many enhancements in the new mixed-signal circuit simulator. The post processing of simulation data has been enhanced to give more flexibility in the way that waveforms and plots can be arranged displayed and analyzed. Pole-Zero analysis has been added to the array of simulation options, and enhancements to the copy to clipboard function now remove the need to take screen dumps. The data exporting has also been enhanced to make it easier for designers to further analyze their simulation data in external programs or spreadsheets. Extensive updates have been made the to SimView server to make simulation results easier to view.
New support for cutouts
With Service Pack 1, Altium has added support for cutouts in patterns in the PCB layout editor. This new feature will improve pattern support and save significant design time. Service Pack 1 also improves the stability of P-CAD 2002 and provides better flexibility and enhanced performance.
Pricing and availability
Service Pack 1 is now available free of charge to all licensed P-CAD 2002 customers. P-CAD 2002 Module customers have access to the fixes and enhancements from Service Pack 1, which are available for download from the P-CAD website. P-CAD 2002 Suite customers have access to the fixes and enhancements and the bonus DXP technologies from Service Pack 1. Due to the large file size of the new technologies, a CD containing the fixes, enhancements and bonus technologies will be shipped free of charge to all P-CAD 2002 Suite customers and will arrive no later than the first week of July 2003. Please note: to run the DXP Bonus Technologies it is necessary to have either the Windows XP or Windows 2000 operating system installed.
A free trial version of P-CAD 2002 including Service Pack 1 will soon be available on a CD and as a file download from the P-CAD website.
For more product information, visit www.pcad.com, www.camtastic.com or contact your local Altium Sales and Support Center.
About Altium Limited
Altium Limited (ASX: ALU), trading as Protel International Limited (ASX: PRI) prior to August 6, 2001, is a leading global developer and supplier of desktop Electronic Design Automation (EDA) and embedded software design tools for the Microsoft Windows environment.
Since the company’s foundation in 1985 and its release of the world’s first Microsoft Windows–based EDA tool in 1991, Altium has continued to apply the most advanced software design methods to provide powerful, easy-to-use and affordable design software to engineers and electronics designers worldwide.
Altium’s current product brands include Protel, nVisage, P-CAD, TASKING, Accolade, CircuitMaker and CAMtastic. These products offer tailored solutions covering a range of hardware and software design processes.
Altium is headquartered in Sydney, Australia, and operates a number of sales and support offices in Australia, the United States, Japan and Europe, as well as maintaining a large reseller network in all other major markets. More information about the company and its products and services may be obtained from our website at www.altium.com.
Altium, Protel, DXP, Design Explorer, nVisage, P-CAD, TASKING, Accolade, CircuitMaker, CAMtastic, Situs and Topological Autorouting and their respective logos are trademarks or registered trademarks of Altium Limited or its subsidiaries. All other registered or unregistered trademarks referenced herein are the property of their respective owners, and no trademark rights to the same are claimed.
Corporate Media Contact
Jessica Maxwell
Altium Limited
Level 3, 12a Rodborough Road
Frenchs Forest, NSW 2086
Australia
www.altium.com
Telephone: +61 2 9975 7710
Fax: +61 2 9975 7720
Email: jessica.maxwell@altium.com.au
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