Altium Supports Xilinx's New Spartan-3 Platform FPGAs.Business Editors/High-Tech Writers SYDNEY, Australia--(BUSINESS WIRE)--April 16, 2003 Altium Limited Altium or Altium Limited is Australian CAD/CAE software company, listed on the Australian Stock Exchange (ASX code: ALU). The company was founded in 1985 in Hobart, Tasmania, to fill a need in the electronics industry for easy to use, PC-based ECAD software. (ASX ASX See: Australian Stock Exchange :ALU (Arithmetic Logic Unit) The high-speed CPU circuit that does calculating and comparing. Numbers are transferred from memory into the ALU for calculation, and the results are sent back into memory. Alphanumeric data are sent from memory into the ALU for comparing. ), a leading developer of Windows-based electronic design and development software, today announced its full support for Xilinx, Inc.'s (Nasdaq:XLNX) Spartan-3 platform FPGAs, which were announced April 14, 2003. Altium, a member of the Xilinx AllianceEDA program, believes that the Spartan-3 platform represents a milestone in both FPGA (Field Programmable Gate Array) A type of gate array that is programmed in the field rather than in a semiconductor fab. Containing up to hundreds of thousands of gates, there are a variety of FPGA architectures on the market. size and price making it an ideal platform for integrating microprocessors into FPGA designs. "At Altium, we see FPGAs as the platform of the future for electronics system design," says Nick Martin, Joint CEO (1) (Chief Executive Officer) The highest individual in command of an organization. Typically the president of the company, the CEO reports to the Chairman of the Board. and founder of Altium. "With unprecedented density range and the lowest price points, Xilinx's new Spartan-3 platform FPGAs provide an ideal production platform for microprocessor-based systems on FPGAs. By supporting the Spartan-3 platform in upcoming versions of our nVisage products, we are providing the mainstream market of engineers easy access to these high-capacity FPGAs for development and production." About the Spartan-3 platform With it's new class of 90nm Spartan-3 platform FPGAs, Xilinx is transforming the semiconductor landscape. Ranging from 50K to 5M system gates, the Spartan-3 platform is the world's lowest cost FPGA with unrivaled price points. Starting under US$3.50, the Spartan-3 family addresses customer demand for low cost solutions with devices priced at 1M gates for under US$20 and 4M gates for under US$100. Using the most advanced 90nm semiconductor process technology, Xilinx has achieved a 50 percent chip-size reduction for Spartan-3, as compared to 130nm technology, which represents cost savings of up to 80% over competitive offerings. With Spartan-3, Xilinx is poised to address entirely new high volume applications in the "sweet spot" of mid-range ASICs -- such as low cost routers, storage servers, medical and industrial imaging, and residential gateways -- to significantly expand the total available market for the Spartan Series. Xilinx continues to be at the forefront of the semiconductor industry's race to 90nm and 300mm wafers via its dual manufacturing strategy with IBM (International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY, www.ibm.com) The world's largest computer company. IBM's product lines include the S/390 mainframes (zSeries), AS/400 midrange business systems (iSeries), RS/6000 workstations and servers (pSeries), Intel-based servers (xSeries) and UMC UMC United Methodist Church UMC United Microelectronics Corporation UMC University Medical Center UMC United Microelectronics Corp (Republic of China) UMC University of Missouri-Columbia . For complete information about Spartan-3 FPGAs, visit http://www.xilinx.com/spartan3. About Xilinx's AllianceEDA Program The AllianceEDA program is based on a commitment to open systems and a philosophy of providing quality technological solutions and innovations through focused partnerships. The shared goal of the AllianceEDA program and its members is to provide the best programmable logic solutions for joint customers. About Altium Limited Altium Limited (ASX:ALU), trading as Protel International Limited (ASX:PRI PRI: see Institutional Revolutionary party. (Primary Rate Interface) An ISDN service that provides 23 64 Kbps B (Bearer) channels and one 64 Kbps D (Data) channel (23B+D), which is equivalent to the 24 channels of a T1 line. ) prior to August 6, 2001, is a leading global developer and supplier of desktop Electronic Design Automation (EDA (1) (Electronic Design Automation) Using the computer to design, lay out, verify and simulate the performance of electronic circuits on a chip or printed circuit board. ) and embedded software design tools for the Microsoft Windows environment. Since the company's foundation in 1985 and its release of the world's first Microsoft Windows-based EDA tool in 1991, Altium has continued to apply the most advanced software design methods to provide powerful, easy-to-use and affordable design software to engineers and electronics designers worldwide. Altium's current product brands include Protel, nVisage, P-CAD, TASKING, Accolade, CircuitMaker and CAMtastic. These products offer tailored solutions covering a range of hardware and software design processes. Altium is headquartered in Sydney, Australia, and operates a number of sales and support offices in Australia, the United States, Japan and Europe, as well as maintaining a large reseller network in all other major markets. More information about the company and its products and services may be obtained from our website at www.altium.com. Note to Editors: Altium, Protel, DXP DXP Design Explorer DXP Directory Exchange Protocol DXP Digital Extended Processor DXP Dynamic Xml Page , Design Explorer, nVisage, P-CAD, TASKING, Accolade, CircuitMaker, CAMtastic, Situs [Latin, Situation; location.] The place where a particular event occurs. For example, the situs of a crime is the place where it was committed; the situs of a trust is the location where the trustee performs his or her duties of managing the trust. and Topological Autorouting and their respective logos are trademarks or registered trademarks of Altium Limited or its subsidiaries. "Xilinx" and "Spartan" are the registered trademarks of Xilinx Inc. All other registered or unregistered trademarks referenced herein are the property of their respective owners, and no trademark rights to the same are claimed. |
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