Altium appoints Triacon Scientific as new reseller in Sweden

Triacon Scientific will sell the latest version of Altium's design solution, Altium Designer as well as the reconfigurable Desktop NanoBoard and daughterboards. Triacon will also employ its expertise in development services within electronics, embedded systems and application programming to provide training, sales and support to local electronics designers.

“Altium is the perfect complement to our product line of competitive development tools for embedded systems,” said Joakim Lang, CEO of Triacon Scientific AB. “We have been in the market for 15 years, developing complex electronic and embedded systems for customers who have high demands, so we know the importance of using the right tools. We are convinced that Altium will lead the way into the future with its unified design approach, extensive feature set and the opportunities for designers to transition from fixed hardware design to programmable hardware design. We look forward to being Altium’s channel partner in the Swedish market.”

Altium recently announced the winter 09 version of Altium Designer, which introduces 40 new features that help engineers to take their next generation electronic design from concept to deployment more quickly. Concepts such as the FPGA field dashboard let electronics designers explore instruments inside FPGAs as part of the application, and stimulate and explore their design live inside the device.

This latest release also includes over 100 enhancements that improve the user’s experience. Performance upgrades to the 3D visualisation engine have improved the memory and speed of the graphics system by up to seven times. Designers can now make decisions about the placement of components with greater accuracy and ease.

“Altium’s sales grew 30% in Europe last quarter and 18% in the last financial year,” said Frank Hoschar, Managing Director and VP Sales & Support EMEA, Altium. “European organizations are rapidly turning to Altium’s next generation electronics design solutions. Customer feedback indicates that engineers who upgrade or migrate to Altium’s solution can experience fewer iterations and reductions in layout time of up to 60%. Building our extended sales force of channel partners will underpin future growth and our ability to take these benefits to even more electronics designers.”