University of Wisconsin students use Altium Designer

PARIS — Australian design tool provider Altium said undergraduate students at the University of Wisconsin's College of Engineering will use Altium Designer to develop foundations in modeling, characterization and application of semiconductor devices.

Altium Designer is a circuit board design tool which is intended to bring together the traditionally separate worlds of hardware design and software development.

"Altium was chosen for its integrated tutorials, better backward and forward annotation support, and for its ability to handle PCB layout, schematic capture and programmable design functionality, all in a single design architecture," stated Erick L. Oberstar, P.E., University of Wisconsin Associate Faculty and Mechatronics Lab Manager/Engineer.

So far, Altium has sealed similar agreements with the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, University of Toronto, Aachen University and Tokyo Institute of Technology. In total, 900 universities use Altium's software tools.

This announcement follows the signature of an educational program between Evatronix SA (Bielsko-Biala, Poland) and France-based Circuits Multi-Projets (CMP) for universities and research laboratories.

Under the terms of the collaboration agreement, the entire Evatronix IP portfolio will be available through CMP - 8051 microcontrollers, USB 2.0 and 3.0 as well as SD and NAND flash memory controllers, multimedia IP and a variety of complementary solutions, Evatronix and CMP said.