Electronic product development involves combining off-the-shelf components to form a hardware platform, and adding 'intelligence' to this platform in the form of software and softwired circuitry hosted in programmable devices such as FPGAs.

Altium Designer provides a single, unified application that incorporates all the technologies and capabilities necessary for complete electronic product development.

Altium Designer integrates

• Board- and FPGA-level system design,

• Embedded software development for FPGA-based processors,

• PCB layout, editing and manufacturing

within a single design environment.

This, combined with modern design data management capabilities,makes Altium Designer the complete solution for electronic product development – a solution that caters for both today's and tomorrow's development needs.

ALTIUM'S unique DXP Technology Integration Platform :

Altium Designer is based on Altium's unique DXP technology integration platform. DXP provides a common platform for all the Altium Designer capabilities and design editors. This ensures consistency of interface across all editors and provides centralized document, project and library management throughout the design process.

The platform-level integration provided by our DXP technology allows all Altium Designer engineers to collaborate seamlessly on product development, regardless of which license option they are using. From front-end system definition and hardware capture, PCB and FPGA design, embedded software development and through to final CAM file editing, all Altium Designer engineers share a common environment, work within common projects and access common design editors and capabilities in order to cooperatively tackle all electronic product design challenges.

Design portability - FPGA Vendor Independence

Altium Designer is not targeted towards any particular programmable device or device vendor. In fact, the Altium Designer environment has been specifically developed to give you complete freedom in device specification, with features that allow the easy migration of designs between programmable devices. This means that you are not locked into any specific device family or vendor, and your designs are portable between target devices. Indeed, design portability even extends to the choice of software execution platform. With Altium Designer you can easily migrate your design between soft processors hosted on the FPGA, hard processors embedded within hybrid FPGA devices,or discrete processors running external to the FPGA.

In essence, Altium Designer allows you to meet the future head on. It incorporates all of the capabilities needed for today's electronic product development challenges, and arms you to meet the challenges of an increasingly programmable future.

FEATURE SET SUMMARY & LICENSING OPTIONS

ALTIUM DESIGNER -Product Demo Center

Altium's NanoBoards are unique, reconfigurable hardware platforms that harnesses the power of today's high-capacity, low-cost programmable devices to allow rapid and interactive implementation and debugging of your digital designs .

With the NanoBoard connected to a PC running Altium Designer – the world's first truly unified electronic design system – you can develop, implement, test and bring to market more intelligent digital products faster than previously possible.

Target programmable devices such as FPGAs and processors are housed on plug-in daughter boards, allowing you to easily change the project architecture and providing a truly device and vendor-independent development solution.

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. Its power, flexibility and tight integration with Altium Designer opens up the exciting possibilities of soft system design to you today