Altium eases FPGA-prototyping adoption with peripheral add-on
Altium has'released'a new prototyping peripheral add-on board for its NanoBoard FPGA-based development boards. The board works with both the fixed-FPGA'NanoBoard 3000'and the fully-configurable'NanoBoard NB2.
The board does away with having to create special, custom PCBs for circuit prototyping. A single on-board connector plugs into the NanoBoard to give direct access to the I/O on the host NanoBoard FPGA and common NanoBoard resources, including power and JTAG lines.
Designers can then integrate custom circuitry with standard NanoBoard peripherals and services, using the wide range of land patterns and plated hole connections on the prototyping boards to quickly construct custom hardware.
The company's smart prototyping boards support a variety of surface mount packages in varying pitches, as well as thru-hole components on 0.1 or 0.05 inch grids. Pre-defined land patterns'for'surface mount devices'(SMD) accommodate pitches of 0.5, 0.65, 0.8 and 1.27mm, and each'SMD'pad is connected to a 0.5mm hole to allow simple connections using prototyping wire.
Board identification'is'achieved using a 1-wire'compatible unique ID device. The'Altium Designer'software license that comes with each NanoBoard recognizes that a prototype board is plugged into the NanoBoard and provides plug-and-play access to the 50 I/O lines on the prototyping board from the design environment.
Designers can then incorporate the custom hardware on the prototyping board into their overall soft system design. The new prototyping board complements the instant deployment enclosures recently released by Altium for the NanoBoard 3000, which let'designers'take their FPGA-based designs from concept right through to deployment without the need to create a custom PCB or custom device enclosure.'
The addition of the smart prototyping board means that systems developed on the NanoBoard 3000 can be deployed in the field complete with custom hardware functionality without having to go through any manufacturing process.
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In 1985, when we introduced our first product, we were one of the
first to harness the newly arrived IBM-compatible personal
computers for electronics design tasks. In 1991, before Microsoft
Windows became the standard PC operating system, we released the
world's first Windows-based printed circuit board (PCB) design
software. In 1998 we introduced Protel-98, the first software
package to handle all core electronics design tasks in a single
integrated application.
In 2005 we introduced Altium Designer which redefined electronics
design tools. In addition to supporting the design of printed
circuit boards, the core of electronics systems, it also included
integrated design tools for the rapidly emerging programmable
hardware in electronics systems. This culminated in the world's
first unified electronics design solution. Since then, we have
introduced a number of world-first innovations. These include the
first "plug-n-play" vendor-independent reconfigurable development
board, and the first 3D electronics design features to dynamically
link electronics designs to mechanical designs.
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