Altium Adds Support for Latest Quartus II Release to Nexar
SYDNEY, Australia—(BUSINESS WIRE)—Dec. 8, 2004—
Altium Limited (ASX:ALU), a leading developer of
Windows-based electronics design software, today announced that its
Nexar system design software has been updated to support v4.2 of
Altera Corporation's Quartus(R) II development software. Nexar is a
complete FPGA-based digital design system and supports a wide range of
Altera(R) Programmable Logic Devices (PLDs). Taking advantage of the
Quartus II v4.2 software's industry-leading synthesis and
place-and-route technology, Nexar customers can achieve the highest
possible performance when using Altera devices in their designs.
Nexar allows the interactive development of complete systems,
including processor-based designs, on an FPGA platform. The Nexar
design methodology -- LiveDesign -- enables real-time communication
with active devices in the circuit, such as processor cores and
virtual instruments, that are running inside the target FPGA. Along
with Altium's NanoBoard, a versatile FPGA development board that
features swappable target devices housed on removable daughter boards,
Nexar allows interactive, 'live' development and debugging of systems
without the need for simulation at the system level, significantly
reducing system development time.
"Supporting Altera's Quartus II software ensures that our Nexar
customers have access to the best place-and-route and synthesis
technology so that they can get the most out of their Altera
FPGA-based designs," said Nick Martin, Joint CEO and founder of
Altium.
James Smith, director of EDA vendor relations at Altera
Corporation, said "Altium's support for the Quartus II development
software in its Nexar software demonstrates the growing success of
Altera products across broad market segments. As the only development
tool that supports FPGA, CPLD and structured ASIC designs, the Quartus
II software allows Altium customers to easily target their prototyping
and production solutions using our programmable logic devices."
Pricing and availability
Support for Altera's Quartus II v4.2 will be available with the
release of Service Pack 2 from December 13, 2004, for free download
from http://www.altium.com/downloads/2004SP2/ for all Nexar 2004 and
Protel 2004 licenses.
Nexar is priced at US$7,995 for a new license. A Unified
Nexar-Protel 2004 software license is also available, providing
complete FPGA-PCB systems development, and is priced at US$9,995.
Protel 2004 users can upgrade their existing license to this system
from US$2,995.
Altium's NanoBoard is priced at US$995 and is currently delivered
with two daughter boards including -- the Altera(R) Cyclone(TM). A
wide range of additional daughter boards, including the Altera(R)
Stratix(TM) with SRAM, Altera(R) Cyclone(TM) with SRAM and the
Altera(R) Max(R) 3000/7000 devices, are also available.
For developers wanting to evaluate Nexar, LiveDesign Evaluation
Kits are now available and prices start from US$49.
For more information, visit www.altium.com/nexar or contact your
local Altium sales and support center.
About Altium Limited
Altium Limited (ASX:ALU) is a global developer and supplier of
electronics design software for the Microsoft Windows environment.
Founded in 1985, Altium released the world's first Microsoft
Windows-based printed circuit board design tool in 1991 and continues
to provide advanced, easy-to-use and affordable software design tools
to electronics engineers, designers, and developers worldwide.
Altium's products offer tailored solutions covering a range of
hardware and software design processes including the Nexar, Protel,
P-CAD and TASKING brands. Altium is headquartered in Sydney, Australia
and has sales and support offices in Australia, the United States,
Japan, Europe and China. More information is available at
www.altium.com.
Altium, CAMtastic, CircuitStudio, Design Explorer, DXP,
LiveDesign, NanoBoard, NanoTalk, Nexar, nVisage, P-CAD, Protel, Situs,
TASKING, and Topological Autorouting and their respective logos are
trademarks or registered trademarks of Altium Limited or its
subsidiaries. "Altera", "Cyclone", "Max" and "Quartus", are trademarks
or registered trademarks of Altera Corporation. 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
Kim Watt, +61 2 9975 7710
kim.watt@altium.com.au
or
Edelman (Altium USA Media Contact)
Sarah Seifert, 650-968-4033
sarah.seifert@edelman.com
