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Altium to Exhibit Latest Innovations at Embedded World 2024, April 9-11

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Tuesday, March 12, 2024

Altium (ASX: ALU), a global leader in electronics design systems, will be at Embedded World 2024 to reveal its latest innovations across its ecosystem, spanning Altium Designer, Altium 365, Octopart, and Altium Electronics Lifecycle Management, the company’s enterprise-grade digitally integrated system for electronics hardware.

Key Points: 
  • Altium (ASX: ALU), a global leader in electronics design systems, will be at Embedded World 2024 to reveal its latest innovations across its ecosystem, spanning Altium Designer, Altium 365, Octopart, and Altium Electronics Lifecycle Management, the company’s enterprise-grade digitally integrated system for electronics hardware.
  • Altium’s agile electronics development platform, Altium 365, enables Altium to deliver value across its entire product portfolio and ecosystem.
  • Altium is encouraging all Embedded World attendees to experience their booth.
  • Embedded World is this year’s most anticipated gathering of embedded experts and players, where thousands of embedded business, technology, and thought leaders travel from 75 countries to meet and exchange ideas.

Renesas to Acquire PCB Design Software Leader Altium to Make Electronics Design Accessible to Broader Market and Accelerate Innovation

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Wednesday, February 14, 2024

The current electronics system design flow is a complicated and iterative process that involves multiple stakeholders and design steps, from component selection and evaluation to simulation and PCB physical design.

Key Points: 
  • The current electronics system design flow is a complicated and iterative process that involves multiple stakeholders and design steps, from component selection and evaluation to simulation and PCB physical design.
  • The company has grown into a global market leader with the most popular PCB software tool in use today.
  • With the addition of the world’s first digital platform for design and realization of electronics hardware, Altium 365, Altium’s leading PCB design software creates seamless collaboration across the entire PCB design process.
  • In June 2023, Renesas announced that it had standardized development of all PCB design on the Altium 365 cloud-based platform from Altium.

Keysight Licenses Simulation Software Technology to Altium for PCB Design Solutions

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Monday, November 14, 2022

Keysight Technologies, Inc. (NYSE: KEYS), a leading technology company that delivers advanced design and validation solutions to help accelerate innovation to connect and secure the world, announced that Altium LLC (ASX:ALU) recently licensed Keysights advanced electromagnetic simulation technology to develop power analysis solutions for PCB designers.

Key Points: 
  • Keysight Technologies, Inc. (NYSE: KEYS), a leading technology company that delivers advanced design and validation solutions to help accelerate innovation to connect and secure the world, announced that Altium LLC (ASX:ALU) recently licensed Keysights advanced electromagnetic simulation technology to develop power analysis solutions for PCB designers.
  • View the full release here: https://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20221114005709/en/
    Power Analyzer integrates Keysights electromagnetic (EM) simulation technology to support an interactive analyze-modify-analyze methodology in the Altium Designer PCB layout environment.
  • Altium integrated Keysights EM simulation technology with its modern graphical user interface to make power analysis fast, accurate, and easy to run.
  • Niels Fach, Vice President and General Manager of PathWave Software Solutions at Keysight said: This technology integration partnership is about democratizing simulation technology and digitally transforming the workflow for a large hardware engineering audience.

Altair Simulation 2022 Released

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Tuesday, April 26, 2022

TROY, Mich., April 26, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Altair (Nasdaq: ALTR), a global leader in computational science and artificial intelligence (AI), announces the release of its latest simulation solutions, which focus on next-generation connectivity, architecture, engineering, and construction (AEC), as well as circuit board and electronic design capabilities; the release also includes a myriad of updates to Altair's traditional solutions. The latest release includes new features and capabilities that broaden, strengthen, and further specialize Altair's comprehensive simulation toolkit.

Key Points: 
  • "The release of Simulation 2022 continues Altair's tradition of leading in computational science and artificial intelligence," said Sam Mahalingam, chief technology officer, Altair.
  • Altair Simulation 2022 supports the automation of realistic 5G envelope beam patterns and includes features like new hybrid ray-tracing patterns and rotating doppler effects for ray-based solvers.
  • Altair Simulation 2022 also includes a myriad of updates for AEC, including support for several new construction standards.
  • And Altair Simulation 2022 also introduces new tools for power electronics and motor drives, including PSIM, which can handle simulation and design for power supplies, motor drives, control systems, and microgrids.

Altair Simulation 2022 Released

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Tuesday, April 26, 2022

TROY, Mich., April 26, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Altair (Nasdaq: ALTR), a global leader in computational science and artificial intelligence (AI), announces the release of its latest simulation solutions, which focus on next-generation connectivity, architecture, engineering, and construction (AEC), as well as circuit board and electronic design capabilities; the release also includes a myriad of updates to Altair's traditional solutions. The latest release includes new features and capabilities that broaden, strengthen, and further specialize Altair's comprehensive simulation toolkit.

Key Points: 
  • "The release of Simulation 2022 continues Altair's tradition of leading in computational science and artificial intelligence," said Sam Mahalingam, chief technology officer, Altair.
  • Altair Simulation 2022 supports the automation of realistic 5G envelope beam patterns and includes features like new hybrid ray-tracing patterns and rotating doppler effects for ray-based solvers.
  • Altair Simulation 2022 also includes a myriad of updates for AEC, including support for several new construction standards.
  • And Altair Simulation 2022 also introduces new tools for power electronics and motor drives, including PSIM, which can handle simulation and design for power supplies, motor drives, control systems, and microgrids.

Altium Launches Electronic Design Program For College And University Students

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Tuesday, March 15, 2022

Altium LLC (ASX: ALU) announced today that it has launched Altium Education, a free online curriculum and certification program for college and university students interested in engineering and electronics design.

Key Points: 
  • Altium LLC (ASX: ALU) announced today that it has launched Altium Education, a free online curriculum and certification program for college and university students interested in engineering and electronics design.
  • View the full release here: https://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20220314005810/en/
    With a focus on higher learning institutions, Altium Education has been developed for university and college students studying engineering and computer science.
  • In 2020, Altium introduced Upverter Education, a modular-based PCB design program created for high school students.
  • With a focus on higher learning institutions, Altium Education has been developed for university and college students studying engineering and computer science.

Altium Announces Release of Altium Designer 22

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Thursday, January 27, 2022

Today at AltiumLive 2022 CONNECT, Altium announced the release of Altium Designer 22, which includes added features to help designers source component availability, enhanced capabilities that reduce manual design tasks, along with advanced real-time lifecycle management tools used in conjunction with Altium 365.

Key Points: 
  • Today at AltiumLive 2022 CONNECT, Altium announced the release of Altium Designer 22, which includes added features to help designers source component availability, enhanced capabilities that reduce manual design tasks, along with advanced real-time lifecycle management tools used in conjunction with Altium 365.
  • View the full release here: https://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20220126006142/en/
    Altium Designer 22, the PCB industry's leading design tool, allows engineers to focus more on designing and worry less about supply chain shortages (Graphic: Altium LLC)
    Altium Designer customers who have active subscriptions can take advantage of all the features and upgrades included in the new Altium Designer 22 release, including:
    Alitums new Part Insights Experience delivers real-time supply chain intelligence directly in the design environment so that information about component specs, lifecycle, and availability is always there, always right, and always on.
  • Altium Designer 22 and Altium 365 work together to streamline the design process and ensure our engineers have the supply chain intelligence to complete their work in a single design environment.
  • Engineers can easily create complex designs and quickly prepare them for fabrication using Altium Designer 22s advanced design capabilities, including:
    The new release also coincides with the launch of Altimade , a new Altium 365 application all Altium Designer customers have access to, that significantly streamlines the printed circuit board design-to-manufacturing workflow.

Altair PollEx for Altium, First in Series, Launched for Printed Circuit Board Design

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Wednesday, January 26, 2022

TROY, Mich., Jan. 26, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Altair (Nasdaq: ALTR), a global leader in computational engineering and intelligence, has launched a special edition of Altair PollEx, an electronic system design (ESD) software tool, for Altium users to empower printed circuit board (PCB) designers to predict and maximize overall PCB performance and verify manufacturability.

Key Points: 
  • Altair PollEx for Altium is a free version of PollEx designed to support various electrical computer-aided design (ECAD) software products, the first of which is Altium Designer, as announced at AltiumLive.
  • Altair PollEx for Altium will make board-level simulation and design verification features seamlessly accessible to Altium Designer users.
  • "The power of Altair PollEx is evident in the broad best-in-class offering for PCB simulation (signal integrity, power integrity, thermal) and comprehensive design verification for manufacturability (DFM), electrical (DFE), and assembly (DFA)," said Stephanie Buckner, chief operating officer, Altair.
  • Altair technical specialist for ESD, Harry Kennedy, will showcase Altair PollEx for Altium at AltiumLive on January 28 in his presentation, "Addressing PCB Design Quality with a Simulation Driven Design Methodology."

Altair PollEx for Altium, First in Series, Launched for Printed Circuit Board Design

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Wednesday, January 26, 2022

TROY, Mich., Jan. 26, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Altair (Nasdaq: ALTR), a global leader in computational engineering and intelligence, has launched a special edition of Altair PollEx, an electronic system design (ESD) software tool, for Altium users to empower printed circuit board (PCB) designers to predict and maximize overall PCB performance and verify manufacturability.

Key Points: 
  • Altair PollEx for Altium is a free version of PollEx designed to support various electrical computer-aided design (ECAD) software products, the first of which is Altium Designer, as announced at AltiumLive.
  • Altair PollEx for Altium will make board-level simulation and design verification features seamlessly accessible to Altium Designer users.
  • "The power of Altair PollEx is evident in the broad best-in-class offering for PCB simulation (signal integrity, power integrity, thermal) and comprehensive design verification for manufacturability (DFM), electrical (DFE), and assembly (DFA)," said Stephanie Buckner, chief operating officer, Altair.
  • Altair technical specialist for ESD, Harry Kennedy, will showcase Altair PollEx for Altium at AltiumLive on January 28 in his presentation, "Addressing PCB Design Quality with a Simulation Driven Design Methodology."

MacroFab Announces a $15M Series B round led by Edison Partners, Including Strategic Investment from Altium to Ignite Growth of Manufacturing-as-a-Service for Electronics

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Wednesday, May 26, 2021

The round was led by Edison Partners , with prior investors including ATX Venture Partners participating.

Key Points: 
  • The round was led by Edison Partners , with prior investors including ATX Venture Partners participating.
  • The MacroFab digital platform is used by supply chain teams to build everything from PCB assemblies to fully tested and packaged electronics products.
  • "Altium shares MacroFab's vision for digital transformation of manufacturing in the electronics industry," said Ted Pawela, Chief Ecosystem Officer at Altium.
  • Altium LLC ( ASX:ALU ), a global software company headquartered in San Diego, California is accelerating the pace of innovation through electronics.