Altium Unveils Product Roadmap for P-CAD Users; Altium Reinforces Product Commitment and Delivers a Variety Of Enhancements.SYDNEY, Australia -- 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 electronics design software, today unveiled a product roadmap for P-CAD(R), Altium's professional tools for board-layout specialists. The roadmap is an insight into Altium's ongoing support and development of P-CAD, and demonstrates Altium's commitment to meeting the current and future design needs of its customers. Today's announcement comes on the heels of Service Pack 1 (SP1) for P-CAD(R) 2004 (refer to January 19, 2005, press release) which provided customer feedback contributed on Altium's P-CAD Forum (http://forums.altium.com). Unlike other providers, Altium gives service packs free of charge to licensed users. "Altium is committed to the ongoing development of the P-CAD design system," said Nick Martin, founder and 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. , Altium. "We are presenting our customers with a systematic, approachable and incremental way to realize value from their investments with Altium." "Altium's P-CAD design system has a proven track record of performance and reliability," said Dan Liggett, senior CAD support specialist, Halliburton Energy Services, a long-term user of P-CAD. "Today's announcement re-emphasizes Altium's commitment to this product -- it is listening to the P-CAD community thus staying current with the needs of PCB PCB: see polychlorinated biphenyl. PCB in full polychlorinated biphenyl Any of a class of highly stable organic compounds prepared by the reaction of chlorine with biphenyl, a two-ring compound. professionals." P-CAD Service and Support Altium's dedicated team of technical support consultants and developers are committed to delivering and supporting expanded capabilities of P-CAD with new PCB technologies and enhanced features. SP1 for P-CAD 2004 released January 19 is available free of charge for immediate download to all licensed P-CAD 2004 customers from: http://www.altium.com/pcad/resources/downloads/. Service Pack 2 (SP2) for P-CAD is currently in beta testing (programming) beta testing - Testing a pre-release (potentially unreliable) version of a piece of software by making it available to selected users. This term derives from early 1960s terminology for product cycle checkpoints, first used at IBM but later standard throughout the and expected to release in Q2 of this calendar year, with Service Pack 3 already planned for release in Q3. "Altium is listening closely to the user forum for the development of P-CAD," said Liggett. "The company is implementing much of what is suggested with each product development issued." Altium will deliver a variety of enhancements in SP2 designed to give yet greater power and control over the PCB design process. Most notable are productivity enhancements such as Variants which can now be defined in both schematic and PCB with full ECO E·co , Umberto Born 1932. Italian writer best known for his novels, including The Name of the Rose (1981). He has also written extensively on semiotics and British and American popular culture. support in both directions, as well as the ability to run multiple instances of all P-CAD applications. The addition of backwards compatibility backwards compatibility - backward compatibility support facilitates staggered upgrades within companies and more trouble-free interaction between internal and external organizations. Additionally, efficiency has been greatly improved with layer ordering for printing and important improvements to copper pours. SP2 will also come with increased routing power due to improvements to glossing and hugging performance, and the Specctra/Situs(TM) Exporter. These, and other enhancements, will be officially announced in Q2 of this calendar year. P-CAD 2004 is currently offered with bonus technologies that bring additional power and efficiency to the design process. Altium is further committed to developing these technologies and will provide enhancements via planned service packs and future product releases already in the pipeline. For more information on P-CAD, visit http://www.altium.com/pcad/ or contact your local Altium Sales and Support Center. About Altium Limited Altium Limited (ASX:ALU) is a global developer and supplier of electronics design software for the Microsoft Windows See Windows. (operating system) Microsoft Windows - Microsoft's proprietary window system and user interface software released in 1985 to run on top of MS-DOS. Widely criticised for being too slow (hence "Windoze", "Microsloth Windows") on the machines available then. environment. Founded in 1985, Altium released the world's first Microsoft Windows-based printed circuit board design tool in 1991 and continues to provide advanced, easy-to-use and affordable software design tools to electronics engineers, designers, and developers worldwide. Altium's products offer tailored solutions covering a range of hardware and software design processes including the Nexar, Protel, P-CAD and TASKING brands. Altium is headquartered in Sydney, Australia and has sales and support offices in Australia, the United States United States, officially United States of America, republic (2005 est. pop. 295,734,000), 3,539,227 sq mi (9,166,598 sq km), North America. The United States is the world's third largest country in population and the fourth largest country in area. , Japan, Europe and China. More information is available at www.altium.com. Altium, CAMtastic, CircuitStudio, Design Explorer, DXP DXP Design Explorer DXP Directory Exchange Protocol DXP Digital Extended Processor DXP Dynamic Xml Page , LiveDesign, NanoBoard, NanoTalk, Nexar, nVisage, P-CAD, Protel, 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. , TASKING, and Topological Autorouting and their respective logos are trademarks or registered trademarks of Altium Limited or its subsidiaries. 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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