December 18, 2007: Altium continues to strengthen worldwide leadership
Altium has appointed Gerry Gaffney as Senior Vice President and General Manager, Americas. The appointment is part of Altium’s strategy to add to its world-class leadership and business development talent. Mr. Gaffney has joined Altium at a time of growth, following the appointment of similar management positions in both Australia and China.
December 03, 2007: See Altium Designer in action online
Altium is holding a series of interactive Web conferences to demonstrate the powerful new features in the latest version of Altium Designer.
November 27, 2007: Altium makes it ‘real’ for all designers: industry-first real-time 3D PCB visualization and navigation
Altium has added a breakthrough 3D PCB visualization engine to Altium Designer which makes board design a ‘realistic’ experience for all designers. This is just one of 300 significant new features and enhancements delivered in Altium Designer 6.8 which continue the unification of board level design, programmable hardware and embedded software development into a single design environment.
November 15, 2007: World’s top young industrial engineers to use Altium Designer in international competition
Altium Designer announces that its unified electronic product development system, Altium Designer, will be the standard platform for all finalists in the Industrial Electronics category at the 39th WorldSkills Competition.
October 30, 2007: NASA’s Johnson Space Center selects Altium Designer as electronics design standard
Altium Limited today announces that its electronics design software, Altium Designer, has been selected by NASA’s Johnson Space Center (JSC) as the standard for designing electronics systems for use in both manned and unmanned space missions.
October 23, 2007: Altium adds LatticeSC/M FPGA support to Altium Designer
Altium has announced support in Altium Deisgner for the LatticeSC and LatticeSCM (collectively, the LatticeSC/M) families of high-performance FPGA devices. Developers using the Altium Designer environment can now target designs for LatticeSC/M devices with full synthesis support.
October 17, 2007: Access to faster power supply simulation for Altium Designer Users
Altium has announced support in Altium Designer for the SIMetrix/SIMPLIS power simulation system, a joint development between Transim Technology and Catena Software Ltd.
October 11, 2007: Altium hits the road in China.
Altium’s Limited is holding a series in China that will unveil the powerful new features of Altium Designer and demonstrate the potential of programmable hardware.
October 8, 2007: Altium opens up unified design to DxDesigner users
Altium has updated the design translation capabilities of Altium Designer to support the import of Mentor Graphics’ DxDesigner®, making it easier for companies and designers using a DX Designer point tool solution to upgrade to Altium Designer’s unified design environment.
October 8, 2007: Altium appoints new Chairman
Altium announces the appointment of Samuel S. Weiss as a Non-Executive Chairman of Altium’s Board of Directors.
4 October, 2007: Altium sales and revenue update for Q1 financial year 2007/8
Altium announces another quarter of strong results: Revenue growth of 29% and sales growth of over 13%.
September 20, 2007: Altium hits the road in Europe.
Altium Limited is holding a seminar series across 16 cities across Europe to demonstrate the potential of programmable hardware and unveil the new features of Altium Designer.
September 19, 2007: Altium hits the road in Australia and New Zealand.
Altium’s seminar series in Australia and New Zealand will demonstrate the potential of programmable hardware and unveil the new features of Altium Designer and they combine with Altium’s new Desktop Nanoboard-NB2.
September 18, 2007: Altium Designer now used in Canadian space research.
Altium continues its investment in the future generation of electronic designers and engineers, with new donations of software to the University of Toronto Institute for Aerospace Studies, Space Flight Laboratory (UTIAS/SFL) in support of its CanX satellite missions.
August 22, 2007: Altium hits the road for the US and Canada seminar series.
Altium’s seminar series in the United States and Canada will unveil the powerful new features of Altium Designer and how they combine with Altium’s Desktop Nanoboard reprogrammable development platform.
August 22, 2007: Altium confirms continued solid growth and strong cash balance.
Altium confirms its final results for the financial year ending 30 June, 2007. Altium proposes a return to shareholders of 6 cents per share.
July 12, 2007: Altium end of financial year sales and revenue update.
Altium advises the market of its preliminary sales and revenue results for the financial year ending June 30, 2007.
June 06, 2007: Altium joins BSA to support anti-piracy crusade
Altium today announced it has joined the Business Software Alliance (BSA) as an Asian regional member. Membership of BSA gives Altium the opportunity to actively work with the highly respected body to assist in the reduction of software piracy and the education of the public about sound software management practices.
April 18, 2007: Altium Q3 sales and revenue update
Altium advises the market of its sales and revenue results for the quarter ending March 31, 2007.
March 29, 2007: Altium Designer language support expanded
The addition of new Korean language support extends Altium Designers capabilities beyond its existing support for French, German, Japanese, Simplified and Traditional Chinese. As opposed to being a separate version of the software, Altium Designer’s language support is built into the system, making electronics development easier for both native-speaking engineers and large multinational organizations working across geographically-dispersed regions.
March 27, 2007: Altium Designer simplifies third-party FPGA core integration
Altium today announced that it has added support for the direct import of FPGA cores generated by third-party applications to its Altium Designer unified electronic product development system.
March 20, 2007: Altium announces support for Cyclone III
Altium Designer adds support for the newly-introduced Cyclone III FPGA device family from Altera. Cyclone III support is available immediately and free for all Altium Designer 6 users with the Altium Designer 6.7 software update.
March 19, 2007: Altium Designer demystifies high-speed design
Altium Designer adds a raft of new productivity-enhancing features assist engineers with handling high-speed design issues resulting from the fast changing nature of today’s mainstream board-level design and its convergence with the wider electronics development process.
February 26, 2007: Growth strategies deliver solid first-half result
Altium advises the market on its half year financial performance ending December 31, 2006.
February 13, 2007: Altium showcases new NanoBoard-NB2 at Embedded World 2007
Altium will be showcasing its next-generation NanoBoard-NB2 at the Embedded World trade show in Nuremberg, Germany this week. Altium is ramping up for full production of the NanoBoard-NB2 and is now taking advance orders.
February 7, 2007: Altium Designer to unify electronics design and development under new agreement with Cessna
Cessna, the world's largest manufacturer of general aviation airplanes, standardizes on Altium Designer to aid in the design and development of electronics systems for their global fleet of aircraft.
January 31, 2007: Altium Designer wins IEC DesignVision Award at DesignCon 2007!
Altium’s unified design solution - Altium Designer 6 - has taken out a prestigious International Engineering Consortium’s DesignVision 2007 Award at DesignCon in Santa Clara.
January 16, 2007: Altium Designer honored as DesignVision 2007 award finalist
Altium’s unified design solution - Altium Designer 6 - has been recognised for its uniqueness and innovation in electronic product development with it being named a finalist in the prestigious International Engineering Consortium’s DesignVision Awards program.
January 10, 2007: Preliminary FY 2006/07 half-year and second quarter update
Altium advises the market of its preliminary results for the half year ending 31 December, 2006 and second quarter for 2006/07 financial year.