EDA ACCESS Partner Profile: Altium
Overview
Altium Limited is the industry's leading developer of electronic product development solutions dedicated to unifying the different design disciplines involved in electronics product development. Altium products ensure all electronic engineers, designers, developers, and their organizations take maximum advantage of emerging design technologies to bring smarter products to market more quickly and easily. Founded in 1985, Altium is headquartered in Sydney, Australia with sales offices in the United States, Europe, Japan, and China and resellers in all other major markets.
Tools
Table 1 lists design tools supporting Altera® devices.
| Table 1. Design Tools Supporting Altera Devices |
| Design Flow |
Tool Name |
Description |
| System Level |
| High-Level Design Tool |
Altium Designer |
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.
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| Design Entry |
| Design Entry |
Altium Designer |
See Altium Designer description above. |
| Synthesis |
| Synthesis |
Altium Designer |
See Altium Designer description above. |
| Verification |
| Simulation |
Altium Designer |
See Altium Designer description above. |
| Embedded Processors |
| Embedded Software Development |
TASKING VX–toolset |
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
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| Board Level |
| Board Design Entry and Verification |
Altium Designer |
See Altium Designer description above. |
| P-CAD |
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 dealing with 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
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| Development Boards/Kits |
| Development Board/Kit |
NanoBoard-NB1 |
A LiveDesign-enabled, FPGA-based development board allows rapid and interactive implementation and debugging of FPGA designs and supports multiple target devices in the form of swappable FPGA daughterboards, providing a reconfigurable development platform. The NanoBoard is designed to take full advantage of Altium Designer's LiveDesign-enabled unified electronic product development system and includes a daughterboard with the Cyclone (EP1C12Q240C7) FPGA.
Optional daughterboards support:
- Cyclone® FPGAs with SRAM (EP1C20F400C8)
- Stratix® FPGAs with SRAM (EP1S10F780C7)
- MAX® 3000/7000 CPLDs with PLCC sockets (EPM7032AELC44-10)
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| Development Board/Kit |
Desktop NanoBoard NB2DSK01 |
Upgraded from the NB1, the Desktop NanoBoard NB2DSK01 supports Cyclone II devices and provides a much larger number of I/O connections from the target FPGA to the connected peripherals.
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Contact Information
For additional information, contact Altium at one of the following locations:
| Location |
Address |
Telephone & Fax |
| Australia |
Altium Limited (Head office)
Level 3, 12a Rodborough Road
Frenchs Forest NSW 2086 |
Tel: 61 2 8986 4400
Fax: 61 2 8986 4440
info.au@altium.com |
| North America |
Altium, Inc.
3207 Grey Hawk Court,
Suite 100
Carlsbad, CA 92010 |
Tel: 1 800 544 4186 (sales)
Tel: 1 800 488 0681 (support)
Fax: 1 760 231 0761 (sales)
Fax: 1 760 231 0762 (support)
info.na@altium.com |
| Germany |
Altium Germany GmbH
Technologiepark Karlsruhe
Albert-Nestler-Straße 7
76131 Karlsruhe
Germany |
Tel: 49 0721 8244 300
Tel: 0 800 0 258 486 (toll free)
Fax: 49 0721 8244 320
info.de@altium.com |
| France |
Protel AG (Filiale du groupe Altium)
121 rue d'Aguesseau
F-92100 Boulogne-Billancourt
France |
Tel: 0800 88 05 06
Fax: 0800 82 85 92
info.fr@altium.com (support) |
| Switzerland |
Protel AG (Tochtergesellschaft der Altium Limited)
Clarastrasse 12
4058 Basel
Switzerland |
Tel: +41 (0)61 666 68 68
Fax: +41 (0)61 666 68 69
Info.ch@altium.com |
| China |
Altium Information Technology (Shanghai) Co., Ltd.
Suite A&J, Floor 9, 828-838 Zhang Yang Road,
Hua Du Mansion, Pudong New Area,
Shanghai,
PRC |
Tel: +86 21 68764016
+86 21 68764017
Fax: +86 21 68764015
support@altium.com.cn |
| Japan |
Altium Japan KK
Resona Gotanda building 7F
1-23-9, Nishi-Gotanda,
Shinagawa-ku Tokyo 141-0031 |
Tel: 81 3 5436 2501
Fax: 81 3 5436 2505
info.jp@altium.com |
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