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Details: Written by Staff; Category: Design News; Published: 10 April 2008

Details: Written by Staff; Category: Design News; Published: 10 April 2008

SAN JOSE, CA - Cadence Design Systems has named Gideon Kemen as vice president of Field Operations for Europe, the Middle East and Africa (EMEA).

His responsibilities will include sales and technical field operations in the region. Kemen has been with the company for 14 years, with a previous position as sales director and general manager of Cadence Design Systems in Israel. Prior to that, he was with Intel for five years.

He will be stationed at the company’s office in Bracknell, England.

Details: Written by Staff; Category: Design News; Published: 07 April 2008

Details: Written by Staff; Category: Design News; Published: 07 April 2008

CARLSBAD, CA - Altium has released a new plug-in daughter board hosting a Xilinx Virtex-4 FPGA, and the company reports that other daughter boards and peripheral boards will be released over the coming months.

Altium's Xilinx Virtex-4 daughter board provides an XC4VLX25-10FF668C FPGA and a range of on-board memories, and can be used with either the new Desktop NanoBoard NB2DSK01 or the previous-generation NanoBoard-NB1.

Designers can reportedly create designs in different programmable devices and deploy them on the desktop NanoBoard for testing, debugging, analysis and redesign. The plug-in daughter boards and peripheral boards can be changed on the NanoBoard during development, and the company claims that the Altium Designer program will automatically reconfigure projects to use the new hardware.

“Altium Designer and the NanoBoard allow electronic product developers to unlock the potential of large-scale programmable devices such as the Xilinx Virtex-4, and build intelligent, connected products that can be easily updated,” said CEO Nick Martin.

CARLSBAD, CA – Altium has donated licenses of its Altium Designer integrated EDA software to FIRST (For Inspiration and Recognition of Science and Technology) for use in its annual robotics design competition.

1,500 teams of high school students participating in the 2008 FIRST Robotics Competition have received access to Altium Designer EDA tool, the first electronics design software ever provided to the competition. At the FIRST Championship to be held April 17-19 in Atlanta’s Georgia Dome, robots created by the teams from a standard kit of parts will compete in a series of matches to determine the world’s best robot.

Gerry Gaffney, Altium Senior VP said, “It’s great to be able to offer these young designers… an insight into the future of electronics design."

"We thank Altium for its commitment to young engineers, and consider the company a valued new member of the FIRST community.” said FIRST president, Paul R. Gudonis.