Timeline
  • 2008
    • Altium Designer wins the EDN China Innovation Award for 'Best Product' 2008
    • Altium extends its FPGA support to include the Altera Stratix® III and LatticeXP2 families of programmable devices.
    • Altium wins the inaugural Software and Embedded Systems category in the Engineers Australia Engineering Excellence Awards 2008.
    • Altium appoints six master distributors in Japan. Altium’s master distributors are Advanced Technology Corporation of Japan, ADT Co., Ltd., Ryoyo Electro Corporation, Sophia Systems Co. Ltd., Tokyo Electron Device Limited and Vitec System Engineering Inc.
    • Digi-Key Corporation and Altium announce a global distribution agreement
    • Altium adds new project management and design data publishing capabilities to Altium Designer.
    • Altium introduces its MCAD-ECAD collaboration technology that lets electronics designers fit their boards into their mechanical enclosures in real time, in 3D, without guesswork.
    • Altium releases a new plug-in daughter board hosting a Xilinx® Virtex™-4 high-performance FPGA
    • Altium launches its Altium Innovation Station in a worldwide roll-out
  • 2007
    • Altium strengthens worldwide leadership with the appointment of a new Senior Vice President and General Manager Americas, with similar appointments made in China and Australia.
    • Altium releases Altium Designer 6.8, which includes world-first PCB visualization and 300 new features and enhancements
    • NASA Johnson Space Center standardizes on Altium Designer
    • Altium Designer adds support for SIMetrix/SIMPLIS simulation engines
    • Altium adds LatticeSC/M FPGA support to Altium Designer
    • Altium Designer adds design translation capabilities to support DxDesigner files.
    • Altium expands operations in Europe – teams set up in Paris and Munich
    • Altium Designer language support expanded
    • Altium Designer 6.7 released
    • Altium announces support for Cyclone III
    • Cessna standardizes on Altium Designer
    • Altium showcases new NanoBoard-NB2 at Embedded World 2007
    • Altium Designer wins IEC DesignVision Award at DesignCon 2007!
    • Altium Designer honored as DesignVision 2007 award finalist
  • 2006
    • Altium Designer wins Elektronik product of the year award
    • Altium Designer wins Embedded Control Europe (ECE) Gold Reader Award
    • Altium announces release of TASKING VX-toolset for C166/ST10
    • Altium Designer adds Lattice MachXO support
    • Altium announces new President & Chief Operating Officer
    • Altium releases TASKING VX-toolset for Altera’s Nios II embedded processors
    • National Semiconductor standardizes globally on Altium Designer
    • Altium Designer 6.3 released
    • Release of Altium Designer Viewer Edition
    • Altium Designer adds support for Altera Nios II processor
    • Altium unveils NanoBoard-NB2 and demonstrates new unified hardware/software compiler technology at ESC 2006
    • Altium releases new TASKING VX-toolset for ARM
    • Altium Designer includes support for AMCC 405 PowerPC-based processors
    • Altium Designer 6.0 supports FPGA system development with ARM®-based processors
    • Altium Designer includes full support for embedded designs using the Xilinx® MicroBlaze™ FPGA-based soft processor
    • Altium Designer features strengthened FPGA-PCB co-design
  • 2005
    • Altium Designer choses as a finalist in the EDN Innovations Awards
    • Altium Designer named in EDNs hot 100 products of 2005
    • Altium Designer 6.0 released
    • Design data management capabilities of Altium Designer enhanced with launch of two-level design viewing strategy – Smart PDF with customized Wizard feature and Altium Designer Viewer Edition license
    • Launch of Altium DesignerProtel, Nexar, CircuitStudio, and CAMtastic unified under a single electronics product development solution
    • Altium selects Verific’s HDL Component Software for Verilog support in Nexar
    • Altium donates to the University of Tasmania Foundation for the development and completion of two radio astronomy research projects
    • Altium reorganized the Board of Directors with changes to the Office of Chief Executive
    • Altium releases TASKING M16C toolset v3.1r1
    • Altium releases TASKING TriCore VX-toolset v2.2
  • 2004
    • Altium releases Nexar 2004– the industry’s first comprehensive, vendor-independent system for developing complete processor-based digital systems on FPGAs
    • Altium releases CircuitStudio 2004– a universal front-end engineering system for both board-level and programmable logic design
    • Altium releases Protel 2004
    • Altium releases CAMtastic 2004
  • 2003
    • Altium opens Chinese representative office and announces a strengthened Chinese reseller network
    • Altium releases TASKING 68K v10.0
    • Altium releases TASKING R8C toolset
    • Altium releases TASKING StarCore v1.2
    • Altium releases TASKING DSP56xxx v3.5
    • Altium releases TASKING TriCore VX-toolset
    • Altium releases CAMtastic DXP + free CAM viewer
    • Altium releases TASKING C166/ST10 v8.0
  • 2002
    • Opening of Protel Training Center at Swinburne University, VIC, Australia
    • Protel wins “Product of the Year 2001” as voted by Elektronik readers
    • Altium releases TASKING TriCore v1.5
    • Altium releases TASKING StarCore v1.1
    • European headquarters consolidated into Karlsruhe, Germany office
    • Altium acquires Hoschar AG’s EDA business, Germany’s largest EDA tools distributor
    • Altium releases Protel DXP– the first single application to address entire board-design process
    • Altium releases P-CAD 2002
    • 25 year anniversary of TASKING brand
    • Altium releases nVisage product line – industry-first multi-dimensional design capture tool
  • 2001
    • Altium releases P-CAD 2001
    • Altium commences strategic partnership with Atmel Corporation
    • Protel wins “Product of the Year 2000” as voted by Elektronik readers
    • Altium Netherlands office established
    • Altium acquires TASKING Group of Companies
    • Altium commences partnership with WebQuote Software – enables customer access to online parts quotation feature
    • Subsidiaries unite as Altium
    • Protel International Limited becomes Altium Limited
    • Altium releases TASKING M16C v2.1 released
    • Altium releases TASKING C166/ST10 v7.5 released
    • Altium releases TASKING TriCore v1.4 released
    • Altium releases Release of PADs to P-CAD translator
    • Altium releases Situs – the industry’s first Topological Autorouter
  • 2000
    • Acquisition of ACCEL Technologies, Inc
    • Launch of P-CAD product line
    • Launch of CircuitMaker product line
    • Protel Library Development Center achieves ISO 9001 Certification
    • Acquisition of Metamor Inc (FPGA synthesis technology)
    • Acquisition of Innovative CAD Software (Computer Aided Manufacturing [CAM] technology)
    • Launch of CAMtastic product line – entry into CAM market
  • 1999
    • Acquisition of Accolade Design Automation (began selling PeakFPGA products) – entry into FPGA design & synthesis market
    • Acquisition of VHDL simulation technology from Green Mountain
    • Launch of Protel 99 – on the Design Explorer platform
    • Successful completion of Initial Public Offering on the Australian Share Market
    • Launch of Protel 99 SE
    • Increased reseller network to sell to 73 countries worldwide
  • 1998
    • Launch of Protel 98 – the first product to include and integrate all five core board-design tools
    • Acquisition of IDK business (Swiss distributor)
    • Acquisition of Techspert business (Japanese distributor)
    • Acquisition of signal integrity technology from INCASES
    • Acquisition of MicroCode Engineering (CircuitMaker product)
    • Opening of European sales & support office in Switzerland
    • Opening of Japanese sales & support office
  • 1997
    • Launch of Protel Designer 5 Pack
  • 1995
    • Altium acquires autorouting technology from NeuroCad
    • Altium acquires Programmable Logic Device (PLD) technology from Logical Devices
    • Launch of Protel Advanced Schematic 3 with built in EDA/Client
    • Increased reseller network to sell to 28 countries worldwide
  • 1994
    • Altium develops technology platform with Client/Server architecture for integration of EDA design tools (foundation for Design Explorer technology unification platform used by Altium’s current products)
  • 1991
    • Altium launches Protel for Windows – the world's first Microsoft Windows–based PCB design system
  • 1988
    • Altium opens USA sales & support office
  • 1987
    • Altium releases Protel Schematic
  • 1986
    • Altium exporting Protel PCB Design tool to the US & Europe
  • 1985
    • Launch of Protel PCB
    • Altium Limited founded (known then as Protel)