Altium Limited release its TASKING compiler suite for ARM, delivering support for many additional Cortex-M based microcontrollers including STMicroelectronics, Freescale, Atmel, Texas Instruments and many others. The enhanced version brings pin assignment functionality to the toolset, which is another step forward in helping engineers to speed up application development.

  At SINDEX, September 2nd to 4th, Protel, the Swiss subsidiary of Altium, will present the company's latest technology developments in Hall 1.2, Stand D01.

An addition to the TASKING C compiler for automotive application development has been announced, providing support for the RH850 architecture from Renesas Electronics. The TASKING VX-toolset for RH850, from Altium, is the first compiler to incorporate support for the latest MISRA C:2012 guidelines for C programming, in addition to the MISRA C:1998 and C:2004 guidelines.

Altium, in cooperation with Australian based In-Circuit Design Pty Ltd (ICD), announce the availability of new extensions for Altium Designer for advanced stackup planning and power distribution network analysis to bring comprehensive high-speed design capabilities to the mainstream market, at an affordable price.

Altium Limited announced the release of the next generation of Altium’s enterprise data management and collaboration platform - Altium Vault 2.0. By centralizing, managing and formalizing the component libraries, design data and team collaboration using the Altium Vault, design teams will be able to achieve significant productivity improvements and reduce potentially costly errors.

Altium Limited has introduced the WEBENCH Altium Connector, a collaborative effort between Altium and Texas Instruments (TI) to blend TI’s award-winning WEBENCH power design and simulation tools with Altium’s leading EDA tool suite Altium Designer. This powerful platform provides design engineers with the first end-to-end analog circuit design and simulation environment, including everything from creating the power supply, simulating ...

An update to Altium Designer, a 3D PCB design tool, offers improved support and features that facilitate design reuse and more efficient electronics design. The update to Altium's signature PCB design software was made in response to user community feedback and is available to all subscription users.

Altium has announced that it intends to begin a corporate reorganization to best serve the needs of their customers and partners in key growth markets. This includes the relocation of the PCB CAD Division and its core R&D team as well as executive and senior management to San Diego, CA as the major step.

Altium a supplier of Smart System Design Automation, 3D PCB design and embedded software development (TASKING) has joined the AUTOSAR (AUTomotive Open System ARchitecture) development partnership. TASKING is a leading provider of compiler solutions to software developers within the microcontroller market. TASKING’s development tools are highly regarded by high-end suppliers, particularly within the automotive industry, to program micro...

A third party developer partnership has been made by Altium with Octopart, a provider of an electronic parts search engine. As a first result of the joint activities with Octopart, every Altium Designer user on a current license will get access to a brand new Altium Designer extension, providing immediate and superfast access to electronic components from 200+ distributors.

Assisting users of the company's TASKING compiler within the automotive industry, Altium has announced the TASKING ISO 26262 Support Program. With this introduction, Altium provides automakers and parts suppliers with a qualification kit and optional qualification services to comply with ISO 26262 assessment requirements related to confidence in use of TASKING compilers in safety relevant systems.

Delivering ultra-rapid prototyping and code development for ARM Cortex-M based MCUs, Altium have announced a major update of its TASKING compiler suite for ARM. The incorporated Software Platform, the company claims, offers prototyping and code development at an unmatched attractive cost level.

The latest version of Altium Designer has been released, with the update focusing on the use of copper areas on the board. Due to this focus, Altium Designer 14.2 enables users to experience a significantly increased repour speed. 

A TASKING compiler suite which supports ON Semiconductor's LC87 MCU family has been introduced by Altium. Based on the company's Viper ”VX” compiler technology, the TASKING VX-toolset is a set of development tools for building and debugging embedded applications using C and assembly.

Altium Limited released a new range of PCB component libraries for Altium Designer supporting a wide range of Rosenberger’s board-mount connectors.

Alongside the launch of a power integrity solution - Altium PI-DC, Altium have announced a development partnership with Nimbic. This makes Nimbic the latest developer partner to join Altium’s Developer program.

Altium has announced a major release of its TASKING C compiler solution for automotive application development. Supporting the Power Architecture based microcontrollers from the Freescale Qorivva/5xxx series and STMicroelectronics SPC5 series, the updated compiler includes various improvements on code optimisations for speed and size.

The new Altium Vault Server Version 1.2 and all new product Team Configuration Center (TC2) has been released by Altium. The Altium Vault manages native electronic design data, including its revision history, life-cycle state and supply chain information whilst hosted on an organization's own network infrastructure.

Altium Limited a publié du contenu de conception PCB pour les utilisateurs d'Altium Designer qui prennent en charge la famille FTDI FT800 de solutions HMI.

Altium announce new Altium Designer PCB design content supporting the FTDI FT800 Embedded Video Engine chips. Combining display, audio and touch in a single chip, the FTDI FT800 family reduces board area, power and BOM requirements, making it a leading solution for Human Machine Interface applications.