January 09
 
Envision – familiar name, different approach
   
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Welcome to Envision, now a regularly updated collection of insights, news and views from Altium. We've changed the way we tell you about new content, broadened the scope of articles and increased the frequency of updates.

Find out what’s new, what’s changing, and what’s over the horizon in the rapidly evolving electronics design industry.
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The winter 09 release of Altium Designer is here!
   
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The winter 09 release of Altium Designer brings significant new and enhanced features to unify the design process, helping you create a real return on your innovation.

It’s the next phase in Altium’s commitment to update our solution every six months, and to continuallly introduce the features you need to create next-generation designs.
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Bosch designs for a greener future
   
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When it comes to green engineering, there appears to be a clear trade-off between long-standing corporate strategies and environmental responsibility.

But what if it was possible to overcome market pressures and see the benefits of both?
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Altium events
 
See the next generation in electronics design at our events and seminars across the globe:
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Evaluate Altium solutions
 
Check it out for yourself. To help you quickly and efficiently evaluate the powerful capabilities of Altium Designer and discover its extensive feature set, we have a simple four-step evaluation process that allows you to see the benefits of Altium Designer.

Choose from a range of on-line demonstrations, book a live Web Conference session and request an evaluation license at the evaluation information page .
 
 
Episode I: Next Generation Electronics Design
 
Watch what happens when you rethink the electronics design process.
 
 
JANUARY TECH TIPS
Interactive routing
– the power of one
Interactively routing a board is a highly iterative process, where you gradually transform the tangled ratsnest into a set of well-crafted routes. The winter 09 release of Altium Designer delivers a suite of interactive routing tools through the one, consistent routing engine.
 
Connect into your design, anywhere, anytime.
When functionality is moved inside an FPGA the soft design can’t be probed, tested and monitored in the traditional way. But there’s now a new way to access FPGA-based designs, both during design and when it’s been released to market, and anyone with a PC can do it.
 
Celebrating China’s innovation in electronics design
The Beijing Olympic Games put China on the world stage in a new way. For the first time, China’s gold medal tally outstripped every other country. And the incredible history, growth and potential that characterize the country can also be seen in China’s developing electronics design industry.
 
FPGA Journal turns five
– and that's old
The respected online publication FPGA Journal has now been underway five whole years. If that doesn’t seem like an impressive history, consider just how long that is in terms of semiconductor development – a multiplication factor not unlike dog to human years.
 
Meet the Envision team
There's real people behind the creation of Envision, and we've stopped hiding.
 
  
     
 
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