NASA makes electronics design choice

NASA's Johnson Space Center will use Altium Designer as its electronics design standard on both manned and unmanned mission support.

NASA's Johnson Space Center (JSC) has chosen Altium Designer as its standard electronics design software.

The centre's Engineering Directorate will use Altium Designer as its electronics design standard on both manned and unmanned mission support.

These include the Space Shuttle and International Space Station programs, as well as the Constellation program to send astronauts back to the Moon.

More specifically, Altium Designer will be used on disciplines as varied as guidance and navigation, electrical power systems, avionics systems, instrumentation, thermal protection, spacesuits and other extravehicular activity (EVA) equipment, aerodynamics and related disciplines, advanced automation systems and overall systems engineering and simulation.

Over thirty Altium Designer unified licenses will be used at JSC to develop NASA's signal integrity, simulation, layout and FPGA processes, unifying these disciplines within Altium's electronics design environment.

Influencing the centre's choice of Altium Designer was the need to unify the various design disciplines and help improve design flow efficiencies and the performance of completed designs.

The centre is also transferring its legacy designs to Altium Designer.

The centre is also using Altium Designer to improve configuration management and version control.

"The Johnson Space Center is embarking on some of the most ambitious space programs of our time and we are delighted that NASA has chosen Altium Designer to help make these visions for space exploration a reality", according to Nick Martin, founder and CEO, Altium.

"Altium is helping engineers around the world tap the benefits of unified electronics design and take advantage of today's advanced electronics technology".

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