Altium to demonstrate Board-on-Chip technology at Altera's SOPC World 2003
SOPC World 2003
SYDNEY, Australia--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Sept. 25, 2003--Altium Limited
(ASX:ALU), a leading developer of Windows-based electronics design
software, announced today that it will demonstrate its Board-on-Chip
(BoC) technology at Altera's SOPC World 2003 conferences that are to
be held in various locations across North America, Europe, Japan, and
Asia commencing September 30 (Booth #24).
Altium's new technology, announced earlier this year, takes
advantage of the emerging commodity market of low-cost, high
performance FPGA's. "FPGA technology has progressed to the point where
these devices represent a viable platform for embedded system design
acessable to the mainstream engineering community," said Nick Martin,
Founder and Joint CEO, Alitum Limited. "For this potential to be
realized however, a number of barriers must be overcome and Altium is
addressing these."
These barriers include the cost of third-party FPGA design tools,
the specialized expertise required to use them, and the lack of
integration with PCB and embedded software design flows. Altium is
well-positioned to change this state of play with the development of
an integrated system that includes hardware and software development
tools; pre-synthesized, royalty free, IP components and a
reconfigurable development board that allows engineers to rapidly
implement a complete embedded system on an FPGA.
Altium's BoC technology demonstrations at SOPC World will showcase
the following capabilities:
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| -- | A rapid system-on-FPGA development environment that can be
used by mainstream engineers
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| -- | An integrated, vendor independent environment for hardware and
software development that facilitates true co-design
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| -- | Hands-on and real time interaction with the design during both
hardware and software debugging
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| -- | An environment that utilizes an engineer's existing knowledge
of system-level and board-level design, providing an easy
learning curve (e.g. schematic based design capture
methodology)
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| -- | A complete, low cost, out-of-the box design system that
supports multiple hardware architectures and contains
everything needed, including cores and a development board,
for system-on-FPGA design
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"We believe the potential target audience for our new technology
will span the broader electronics engineering, design and development
industry. This includes engineers currently developing digital systems
using off-the-shelf devices, FPGA designers looking for a rapid way to
embed processor cores into their designs as well as hardware and
software engineers designing low- to medium-complexity embedded
microcontroller applications," said Nick Martin. "It will also be a
system beneficial for educational institutions for use as an
interactive electronics development learning platform."
Altium's BoC technology will include full support for Altera's low
cost, high performance Cyclone(TM) device family.
About SOPC World 2003
SOPC World 2003 is Altera's global annual design conference that
brings together system architects, designers, and manufacturing
executives from around the world to learn about the latest
applications, features, and benefits of using programmable logic
technology through a number of detailed technical sessions and
hands-on demonstrations. SOPC World 2003 commences September 30, 2003.
For further information on SOPC World 2003 visit
http://www.altera.com.
About Altium Limited
Altium Limited (ASX:ALU) is a leading global developer and
supplier of electronics design software for the Microsoft Windows
environment. Since the company's foundation in 1985 and its release of
the world's first Microsoft Windows-based printed circuit board design
tool in 1991, Altium has continued to apply the most advanced software
development methods to provide powerful, easy-to-use and affordable
design tools to electronics engineers, designers, and developers
worldwide.
Altium's products cover a range of hardware and software
electronics design processes, and the current brands include nVisage,
Protel, P-CAD, TASKING, CircuitMaker and CAMtastic.
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. Prior to August 6, 2001, Altium Limited
traded as Protel International Limited (ASX:PRI). More information
about the company and its products and services may be obtained from
our website at www.altium.com.
Altium, Protel, Design Explorer, DXP 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.
CONTACT: Altium Limited
Jessica Maxwell, +61 2 9975 7710 (Corporate Media)
jessica.maxwell@altium.com.au
www.altium.com
or
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Sarah Seifert, 650-968-4033 (USA Media)
sarah.seifert@edelman.com
www.edelman.com
