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Altium makes gains in N. American EDA market
Sydney, Australia — Altium Ltd., a provider of electronic design software, is making headway in the North American market. The company says its North American operation alone has gained more than 500 new U.S. customers over the past 12 months for its electronics design solution Altium Designer.
Altium says its new customers are reporting significant productivity improvements with the solution. According to the company’s survey of new customers in December 2009, 84 percent of respondents said they experienced improvement of more than 200 percent. Other key findings reveal that 85 percent of the new users found the migration to the design tool as expected or easier than expected and 89 percent would recommend Altium to colleagues.
The solution offers a single data model and unified architecture that provides a system development platform for FPGA, PCB and embedded software development in a single application. In addition to the electronics design authoring tools, the platform architecture also provides intrinsic electronics design data management and IP support thanks to its unified architecture.
“Electronic product design is at an inflection point where tool-chain approaches are struggling to meet the needs of today’s complex process and data management needs,” said Gerry Gaffney, regional CEO of the Americas for Altium, in a statement. “Altium’s unified approach to electronics design clearly resonates with these new customers, who come from many market sectors.”
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