Date: 26/11/2009

Instant deployment enclosures for Altium's NanoBoard 3000 FPGA development board

Altium has announced that it has added an instant deployment options to its NanoBoard 3000 FPGA development board that eliminates the need to create a custom PCB.

Altium's NanoBoard 3000 is a programmable design environment supplied completes with hardware, software, ready-to-use, royalty-free IP and an Altium Designer Soft Design license.

Designers simply use their existing board layout and systems design skills to construct, test and implement FPGA-based embedded systems. The supplied Altium Designer license offers drag and drop the large range of IP blocks to add processors, memory controllers, peripherals and software stacks. Unlike alternative programmable design environments, designers no longer need to search the Web for drivers, peripherals or other software, and then have the hard work of integrating all these elements to make them work together.

The Altium Designer's unified architecture also gives the option of upgrading to a boardlevel Altium Designer license and moving into custom PCB design. Their "soft" design work completed on the NanoBoard 3000 is simply ready to be used on their custom PCB.

Altium's first NanoBoard 3000 features a Xilinx Spartan 3AN FPGA. Two more NanoBoards, featuring Altera and Lattice FPGAs, are in manufacture and design. The new deployment enclosures will accommodate all these NanoBoard options.

Price:
NanoBoard 3000: At $395
New enclosures for the NanoBoard 3000: At $129

Availability: Now

For more details visit www.altium.com