Digi-Key Corporation and Altium Limited Announce Global Distribution Agreement.THIEF RIVER The Thief River is a tributary of the Red Lake River in northwestern Minnesota in the United States. Via the Red Lake River, the Red River of the North, Lake Winnipeg and the Nelson River, it is part of the watershed of Hudson Bay. FALLS, Minn. & SYDNEY Sydney, city, Australia Sydney, city (1991 pop. 3,097,956), capital of New South Wales, SE Australia, surrounding Port Jackson inlet on the Pacific Ocean. Sydney is Australia's largest city, chief port, and main cultural and industrial center. , Australia -- Digi-Key Corporation, a global distributor of electronic components, and Altium, a world leader in unified electronics design, have announced a global distribution agreement. Digi-Key will distribute Altium's Desktop NanoBoard, which will include a 12-month timed Altium Designer License. The Desktop NanoBoard will be delivered in a standard set of plug-in peripheral boards and a choice of one of three 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. daughter boards. Digi-Key will also carry the extended range of NanoBoard plug-in peripheral and FPGA daughter boards. These options extend the design choice and freedom available to designers. Altium products stocked by Digi-Key are featured in its print and online catalogs Similar to an online library or databases in the information storage respect, ‘’’online catalogs’’’ allow potential customers to browse a company’s items for sale from a different location using the internet. and are available for purchase directly from Digi-Key. Altium markets the combination of the Desktop NanoBoard and Altium Designer, Altium's unified electronics design solution, as the ultimate Innovation Station. The Innovation Station gives designers everything needed for rapid prototyping Building a part one layer at a time using a method of additive fabrication such as 3D printing. Such parts are used for concept modeling to determine if the product design meets the customer's expectations. , concept exploration and device experimentation. Designers can create functionality in programmable hardware, and then deploy to physical hardware for testing and analysis, without having to create any custom prototype boards. Because the NanoBoard is reconfigurable and independent of device vendor, designers are not constrained con·strain tr.v. con·strained, con·strain·ing, con·strains 1. To compel by physical, moral, or circumstantial force; oblige: felt constrained to object. See Synonyms at force. 2. by having to first choose the final device at the beginning of the design process. They can create, test and analyze functionality in different devices using the NanoBoard, and switch between devices to compare the performance in the actual design. The NanoBoard's automatic configuration protocol makes this a simple process: swap the plug-in boards, and the NanoBoard reconfigures to the FPGA device or set of peripherals without having to change the design. Nick Martin, Altium's 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. , said, "Altium is passionate about putting the best available design solutions into the hands of every electronics designer and engineer as quickly as possible. This agreement with Digi-Key is a significant step toward making this a reality. We are impressed im·press 1 tr.v. im·pressed, im·press·ing, im·press·es 1. To affect strongly, often favorably: with Digi-Key's global coverage and commitment to first-class customer service, and we feel aligned with them in the way we both want to make our customers successful." Martin continues, "With Altium's Innovation Station, Digi-Key's customers have a future-proofed, vendor independent, 'live design' development environment. They can use a reconfigurable development platform to create rapid prototypes, explore new concepts, and experiment with different devices in ways they couldn't do previously." Digi-Key President and COO (Cell Of Origin) See mobile positioning. Mark Larson said, "A very appealing aspect of Altium's Innovation Station is that straight out of the box, it delivers a product development solution for electronic design engineers. For Digi-Key, Altium's Innovation Station is consistent with our desire to provide our customers with products that are practical, relevant, and state of the art." Pricing and Availability Altium's unique Innovation Station, which includes Altium's Desktop NanoBoard, a 12-month timed Altium Designer license, a standard set of plug-in peripheral boards, and a choice of one of three FPGA daughter boards, is available for immediate shipment from Digi-Key at www.digikey.com . Price is US$4,300. For more information about Altium's Innovation Station, go to www.altium.com/files/videos/innovation_station/ to see the Innovation Station in action. About Digi-Key Corporation One of the world's fastest growing distributors of electronic components, Digi-Key has earned its reputation as an industry leader through its total commitment to service and performance. As a full-service provider of both prototype/design and production quantities of electronic components, Digi-Key has been ranked #1 for Overall Performance for 17 consecutive years from among the nation's more than 200 distributors (EE Times Distribution Study/ August 2008). Offering more than a million products from nearly 400 quality name-brand manufacturers Digi-Key's commitment to inventory is unparalleled. Access to the company's broad product offering is available 24/7 at Digi-Key's top-rated Web site, www.digikey.com. About Altium 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. ) provides world-leading unified design solutions that break down the barriers to innovation, and help organizations easily harness the latest devices and technologies to create their next generation of electronic products. Altium's solutions are unique because they unify 1. (database, product) Unify - A relational database produced by Unify Corporation. 2. (algorithm) unify - To perform unification. the separate processes of electronics design, all within a single electronics design environment, working off a single data model, which links all the aspects of electronics product design into one process. Founded in 1985, Altium has headquarters in Sydney, Australia, sales offices in 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. , Europe, Japan, China, and resellers in all other major markets. For more information, visit www.altium.com. Altium, Altium Designer, and LiveDesign, 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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