Renesas to Acquire PCB Design Software Leader Altium

Renesas Electronics announced an agreement to acquire all outstanding shares of the global leader in electronics design systems, Altium. The announcement, with important repercussions for product developers globally, enables Renesas to create a system-level integrated and open electronics system design and lifecycle management platform, leveraging Altium’s popular design software and cloud platform capabilities to increase innovation and overall productivity.

SnapEDA, the electronics design search engine, released SnapEDA for Fusion 360 in collaboration with Autodesk. Electronics designers can now search and place free cloud-based symbols, footprints and 3D models from SnapEDA directly within Fusion 360. And the SnapEDA search engine for electronics design is now also integrated through plug-ins available for popular software tools such as ExpressPCB, DipTrace and Proteus PCB, among others.

National Instruments and Cadence Design Systems, announced a system innovation strategic alliance to create an integrated design to test flow, leveraging reusable data and test IP from electronics design and verification to validation and production test for electronic system and semiconductor companies. Through the strategic alliance agreement, NI and Cadence expect the joint development of technology, methodology and intellectual property to streamline electronics development.