Announced November 25, 2009, Altium has added an instant deployment option to its new NanoBoard 3000 FPGA development board. Designers can now take their FPGA-based designs from concept right through to deployment without the need to create a custom PCB.
The instant deployment options, requiring less time than it takes to brew and drink a cup of coffee, come from being able simply to clip the NanoBoard 3000 into a new range of enclosures designed in-house by Altium.
Their modular form lets designers deploy FPGA-based designs created and hosted on the NanoBoard 3000 in a number of different ways: on desks, on walls, in either commercial or industrial locations, in extended options for multiple board designs, without or without the TFT display that comes with the enclosures.
With the NanoBoard 3000, FPGA-based prototypes are designed in days. The new deployment option now means they are ready to be shipped to the field in minutes.
The design quality of the new enclosures means that designers will now relish presenting prototype designs to audiences as diverse as venture capitalists and engineering directors, as well as peers and field test teams.
And instantly deploying the NanoBoard 3000 in the new modular enclosures gives designers the option of creating small production runs in commercially attractive cases, again without being compelled to manufacture custom enclosures or custom PCBs.
Designers use their existing board layout and systems design skills to construct, test and implement FPGA-based embedded systems. The supplied Altium Designer license lets them select, drag and drop the large range of IP blocks to add processors, memory controllers, peripherals and software stacks. Unlike alternative programmable design environments, designers no longer need to search the Web for drivers, peripherals or other software, and then have the hard work of integrating all these elements to make them work together.