San Diego, Calif. – September 21, 2016 — Farnell element14, in partnership with Altium, has released version 1.2 of Altium CircuitStudio. Built on 30 years of Altium R&D experience, CircuitStudio is a professional PCB design tool that is ready to pick-up and go. With powerful schematic capture, feature-rich PCB editing and centralised component management it will inspire designers to invent the future, instead of being preoccupied with just making it work. Now, in order to make CircuitStudio more accessible to PCB designers, it is available at a new affordable price of €957 / £753.

Altium CircuitStudio is a complete PCB design system with a balanced blend of powerful features and intuitive interfaces, making it easier than ever for designer to achieve perfection in their design process, for example:

*       Design Rule Driven Interactive Routing enables designers to quickly and efficiently route without worrying about breaking any preset design rules.
*       Built-In Autorouter Engine provides the routes from one pin to another automatically based on predetermined rules set by the designer, allowing more time to focus on other aspects of the design.
*       Powerful Native 3D PCB Visualization Engine allows designers to ensure their boards fit their mechanical enclosures the first time, effectively reducing design spins and saving precious time and resources.

The latest version of the Altium CircuitStudio software offers improvements to usability and increased functionality including:

*       Pad objects now support square and slotted holes
*       Subversion (SVN) support
*       Ability to generate an EDIF Netlist
*       Additional Schematic and PCB shortcut keys for common object placement commands
*       Rearranging library documents within the Projects Panel improved

The knowledge and support center for Altium CircuitStudio has also been improved and can be found within the element14 community. This new location for the knowledge center enable users to draw on the experience of over 400,000 community members, take part in RoadTests and learn more about the product with Quick Start webinars.

“The latest release of CircuitStudio represents a very competitive solution in the low end market space for PCB design tools,” said Matt Schwaiger, VP of Customer Success at Altium. “With a reduction in price, enhanced product roadmap, and increased support CircuitStudio will become the defacto tool for PCB designers.”

To learn more about CircuitStudio v1.2 click here <http://www.CircuitStudio.com> 

Farnell element14 offers the latest products, software and solutions from trusted supplier partners through 43 local language transactional websites. The element14 Community allows buyers and engineers to access a wide range of independent technical information, tools and the latest resources. The element14 Design Center provides customers with a streamlined software selection and purchasing experience for all the main categories of design software, offers free software trials and multiple delivery options, including instantaneous eDelivery.

About Farnell element14

Farnell element14 <http://uk.farnell.com/>  is part of Premier Farnell Group plc (LSE:pfl), a global leader in high service distribution of technology products and solutions for electronic system design, production, maintenance and repair. Trading as Farnell element14 <http://uk.farnell.com/>  in Europe, Newark element14 <http://www.newark.com/>  in North America and element14 <http://sg.element14.com/>  across Asia Pacific, Premier Farnell had sales of £982.7m in the year ended 31 January 2016. The Group is supported by a global supply chain of more than 3,000 suppliers and an inventory profile developed to anticipate and meet its customers’ needs.

Key facts about Premier Farnell:

*       Operations in 38 Countries and 43 local language transactional websites
*       More than 3,000 leading suppliers
*       More than 650,000 products stoked with access to over four million more on demand
*       Leaders in providing information on REACH, Conflict Minerals and EU RoHS legislation <http://www.element-14.com/community/community/legislation>

For more information visit the website at http://www.premierfarnell.com <http://www.premierfarnell.com

About Altium

Altium Limited (ASX: ALU <http://www.asx.com.au/asx/research/companyInfo.do?by=asxCode&allinfo=&asxCode=alu> ) is a multinational software corporation headquartered in San Diego, California, that focuses on electronics design systems for 3D PCB design and embedded system development. Altium products are found everywhere, from world leading electronic design teams to the grassroots electronic design community. With a unique range of technologies, Altium helps organizations and design communities innovate, collaborate and create connected products while remaining on ­time and on ­budget.

Products provided are Altium Designer®, Altium Vault®, CircuitStudio®, CircuitMaker®, Octopart®, Ciiva® and the TASKING® range of embedded software compilers.

Founded in 1985, Altium has offices worldwide, with US locations in San Diego, Boston and New York City, European locations in Karlsruhe, Amersfoort, Kiev and Zug and Asia ­Pacific locations in Shanghai, Tokyo and Sydney. For more information, visit www.altium.com <http://www.altium.com/> . You can also follow and engage with Altium via Facebook <http://www.facebook.com/pages/Altium/106726426049146> , Twitter <https://twitter.com/#!/altium>  and YouTube <http://www.youtube.com/altiumofficial> .

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