Chinese joint venture picks Protel

An Altium product story

Edited by the Electronicstalk editorial team Sep 9, 2005

Altium Designer has been specified as the electronics design system of choice by Agilent Technologies' strategic new joint venture in China, Agilent-Qianfeng Electronics Technologies.

Altium Designer has been specified as the electronics design system of choice by Agilent Technologies' strategic new joint venture in China, Agilent-Qianfeng Electronics Technologies.

The cost effectiveness, short learning curve, intuitive operation, and powerful, integrated feature set were key factors in the selection of Altium Designer's Protel licence as the superior design system of choice for Agilent-Quianfeng's Chengdu Research and Development (R and D) facility in China's Sichuan Province.

"Our engineers voted for Protel from the beginning because it was able to provide exactly what we needed", said Xiaofei Ma, General Manager of R and D at Aglient-Qianfeng.

"In conjunction with our engineering team, Altium's China team worked closely with us to determine and meet our scheduling, training and support requirements for a smooth adoption of Altium Designer's Protel licence".

"We are excited about the implications of a solid partnership for the future".

"Our advanced products, strong knowledge of the local electronics industry and dedication to customer relationships supported by our Global Customer Care Division, allows us to form very productive partnerships with electronics companies in China", says Edward Qu, General Manager of Altium's Shanghai Representative Office.

"This is a time of very high growth in the region's electronics industry, and Altium is well placed to support the advanced electronic product design needs of facilities like the Agilent-Qianfeng R and D labs".

Agilent-Qianfeng considered a range of software solutions for their design and board-level development needs, but based on Altium Designer's short learning curve, intuitive operation, high level of integration, powerful features and cost effectiveness it selected the Altium Designer Protel licensing option as the superior design system for its R and D lab engineering staff.

For the lab engineers, Altium Designer's Protel licence was the PCB design system of choice among the offerings from all other vendors.