EDA ACCESS Partner Profile: Altium

Altium Designer is a single, unified application that provides all the technologies and capabilities necessary for unified electronic product development. Altium Designer integrates board- and FPGA-level system design, embedded software development, and PCB layout, editing, and manufacturing.

For more information on Altium Designer, visit www.altium.com.

The TASKING VX-toolset for the Nios^® II processor brings you the power of Altium’s sophisticated next-generation Viper C compiler technology framework, allowing you to take full advantage of the popular FPGA-based Nios II embedded processor from Altera. The TASKING VX-toolset for the Nios II processor comprises:

• Plug-in for Eclipse-based Nios II integrated development environment (IDE)
• Viper-based C compiler
• Assembler with macro-preprocessor
• C libraries, run-time libraries, floating-point libraries
• Linker and locator

P-CAD 2006 is all you need to bring even the most demanding board design to life. Whether it's developing high-speed board solutions, integrating large ball-grid array (BGA) devices into your design flows, or addressing complex signal integrity issues and high-density PCB layouts, P-CAD's proven power and stability ensures you get to market ahead of the competition.

New feature highlights:

• Differential pairs interactive routing
• Multi-route tool
• Orthogonal dragging of routes
• Improved capability to select sub-objects
• Board outline object with board cut-outs
• Increased control over drawing and printing
• Enhanced copper pour capabilities
• Updated Bonus Technologies to Altium Designer 6

Altium's NanoBoard is a unique, reconfigurable hardware platform that harnesses the power of today's programmable devices so you can develop, implement, test, and bring to market next-generation products faster than ever before. Use the NanoBoard as a system prototyping and development platform, as an educational hands-on teaching tool, or as a standalone product running a custom system design. The NanoBoard supports Cyclone^® II and Cyclone III FPGAs.