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In the mid-1990s, the industry was moving towards the use of newly-affordable technologies such as field-programmable gate arrays (FPGAs) instead of individual components fixed to a PCB however the design tools used for PCBs and those used for programmable logic systems were markedly different and the difference was becoming an obstacle to electronics design

To counter the limitations imposed by separate stand-alone design tools, the company began developing a unified electronics design system, which uses a single data model to hold all of the design data required to create a product. A variety of editing tools could then be used to access and manipulate the design, covering areas such as board layout and design,schematic capture, routing (EDA), testing, analysis and FPGA design.

In the second half of the 1990s, the company began acquisition of various companies with the technologies needed to create a unified electronics design solution. In 1999 it listed on theAustralian Stock Exchange to generate the capital to conclude these acquisitions and in 2001, the company changed its name to Altium, to distinguish its products from the earlier Protel PCB layout solutions.

Due to the limitations of existing software platforms, Altium created its own platform called Design Explorer (DXP), hosted on Microsoft’s Windows operating system, which formed the foundation of the Altium Designer product. The first version was released in 2004, with major new releases in December 2005, and in 2007, 2008 and 2009.

For Download This Software Please Go Altium Official Website