Cessna to adopt unified development system

An Altium product story

Edited by the Electronicstalk editorial team Feb 8, 2007

Altium has revealed that its Altium Designer unified electronic product development system has been chosen by Cessna Aircraft Company.

Altium has revealed that its Altium Designer unified electronic product development system has been chosen by Cessna Aircraft Company, the world's largest manufacturer of general aviation airplanes, to aid in the design and development of electronics systems for Cessna's global fleet of aircraft.

Altium Designer will be standardised across the Cessna electronics engineering team based at the company's facilities in Wichita, Kansas, in the USA, to improve electronics design-flow efficiencies and the performance of completed designs.

"Cessna is renown around the globe for developing world-class aviation technologies", commented Nick Martin, founder and CEO, Altium.

"We are very pleased to be able to work with Cessna's engineers to provide them with an off-the-shelf unified electronics product development solution that supports their quest for innovation, true to the company's heritage in state-of-the-art aircraft design and manufacturing".

Altium Designer's unified design methodology is gaining fast momentum industry-wide because it enables all engineers, designers and developers to easily move to a 'soft' design paradigm and harness the potential programmable device technology offers.

Unlike traditional design flows, hardware design, programmable logic design and embedded software development is managed by Altium Designer within a single "concept-to-manufacture" design environment, delivering greater design efficiencies and new abilities to create differentiated electronics products.

"Cessna carefully evaluated the cost, features and benefits of many electronic product development options".

"Through this process, we determined Altium Designer's single unified design environment would be the most appropriate solution for our current business model", said Tim Zimmerman, supervisor of Electronics Development, Cessna Aircraft Company.

"With our implementation strategy, we see several immediate advantages in terms of design flow efficiency that are right in line with our lean initiatives".