Date: 13/05/2012

Altium release components for ARM Cortex MCUs from NXP Semiconductors

Altium has released new range of board-level components for industry-leading ARM Cortex-M3, Cortex-M4 & Cortex-M0 based microcontrollers from NXP Semiconductors to their subscription customers through AltiumLive.

"Collaboration with NXP has enabled us to provide easy access to the Cortex-M3, Cortex-M4 & Cortex-M0 based microcontrollers for our global Subscription customers." said Rowland Washington, Content Development Manager for Altium. "This update is delivered as part of our content-driven subscription model and further expands on our range of third-party, design-ready IP for our customers."

"Collaborating with Altium to deliver high-quality component models through AltiumLive will enable design engineers to harness the benefit of NXP microcontrollers with Altium's extensive design library." said Ken Dwyer, Applications Engineering Manager, NXP Semiconductors. "With these components now easily available, it will save hardware engineers valuable time and also speed up the design cycle."