September 08

Rapid prototyping with the Altium Innovation Station

	If only I could get my prototype running inside a week! You probably can, using the Altium Innovation Station. It removes the boundaries between hardware and software development, and manages low-level design detail for you. It's the fast way to create and prototype new designs. Altium’s latest tutorial and video series shows you how. Read the full story


Tuning FPGA power efficiency – a new way to tame the beast

	Managing the power consumption of a design is crucial, but conventional power tuning strategies are struggling to cope with the latest developments such as FPGAs. Read how moving a design directly to the prototype stage allows the process to be done in real time, on real hardware, freeing you to focus on innovation. Read the full story


Outpacing changing technology

	By moving to Altium's unified workflow, respected microelectronic and test measurement expert Aeroflex boosts board throughput by 80% "With Altium Designer we don't just keep pace with technology, we set the momentum". Ricardo Paez, Aeroflex. Read the full story

Altium Designer training

Our training courses feature a comprehensive start-to-finish curriculum designed enhance your design experience, using Altium's Designer. Online training is available, which features web-based courses conducted by one of our very own Altium engineers.

Visit our TRAININGcenter or contact your Altium Sales Representative for information on costs and the available training courses in your region.

Evaluate Altium solutions

Check it out for yourself. To help you quickly and efficiently evaluate the powerful capabilities of Altium Designer and discover its extensive feature set, we have a simple three-step evaluation process that allows you to see the benefits of Altium Designer.

Choose from a range of on-line demonstrations, book a live Web Conference session then request an evaluation license at the Altium Evaluation center.

September TECH TIPS

Design reuse with the
Innovation Station

Hardware design reuse is valuable to any development team, especially when it solves issues such as component annotation. Here, an engineer shows you how Altium Designer delivers an effective and complete hardware design reuse solution.

Create your own custom
virtual instrument

Altium provides a range of embedded virtual instruments that can be used to monitor and control FPGA designs. Read how you can now make your own.

Altium Designer Summer 08 service pack 1 now available

Service pack 1 for the Summer 08 release of Altium Designer is now available. Development has continued with a range of general enhancements, including support for Altera Stratix III and LatticeXP2. Use the web update feature in Altium Designer or download it from the Altium SUPPORTcenter.

Young engineers shine light on future technology

Altium is supporting innovation at two universities. Students from the University of New South Wales and the University of Iowa are using Altium's unified solution to design, build and race solar cars to promote the development of solar energy.

Making the change to Altium's unified design system is now a 'no brainer' for Allegro users. Your existing design IP is now easy to import.


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